Who wins –Trump, Modi, xi?

Shifting World Market By Shivaji Sarkar World politics and economy is changing. East Asia is becoming the hub of activity and along with the Indian subcontinent,...

Planned desert in offing

Jewar Airport By Shivaji Sarkar It couldn’t be more ironical. As India played host to the 14th meeting of the Conference of Parties of the UN...

I am a dalit, who are you?

Political Diary By Poonam I Kaushish The caste genie unleashed by our polity nearly three decades ago has bared its poisonous fangs once again in...

Sensex surge an illusion

SMES, Realty Dip Market By Shivaji Sarkar The Sensex closing above 82,000 may grab headlines, but it doesn’t reflect the true market buoyancy. SEBI has raised...

What constitutional norms?

Governors Bane Ghulam By Poonam I Kaushish Fame and Shame. Two emotions played out on the political theatre last week.  In the first, India made history...

Growth stunted, no optimism

Employment Crisis By Shivaji Sarkar The country may continue to have employment crisis as it missed the recipe for quick progress through new job opportunities after...

Towards destruction of parliament

By Inder Jit (Released on 25 August 1987) Parliament today faces its biggest ever challenge and crisis. Some of us have deplored its decline over the...

New avatarpost k’taka poll?

High GST Fills Coffers By Shivaji Sarkar Would the economic fundamentals change with the Karnataka elections? They just might. The Assembly polls have drawn a serious debate...

Money hai to power hai!

Market For Defectors By Poonam I Kaushish In these hot climes, political India is feeling the heat and how! One doesn’t know who is sleeping with...

Understanding Equality

India’s key challenge By Dr. Oishee Mukherjee Over a period of time there has been renewed interest on inequality, specially after the publication of renowned French...

Economic crisis looms

Policy Paralysis By Shivaji Sarkar Election time is show time. The minuses are swept under the carpet as rhetoric rules the roost. Manifestos are not necessarily...

Oppositin unity makes headway

By Inder Jit (Released on 19 July 1988) Opposition efforts at forging unity and offering the country a credible national alternative to the Congress-I have made...

Growth lower, infaltion high

RBI MPC Estimate By Shivaji Sarkar The feel good factor may be impacted as the Reserve Bank of India estimates the growth to remain lower, inflation...

Katil=Neta, Toh Kya?

Stigma=Women By Poonam I Kaushish Plato believed that democratic “life has neither law nor order.” And he was dead right. In today’s India where jiske lathi...

Bengal polls key to future

Economic Policy By Shivaji Sarkar West Bengal elections may be a referendum for India’s economic policies. It will decide whether the politics of “reformist economy” will...

Fixing history or driving wedge?

Gyanvapi Masjid Row By Poonam I Kaushish Politicians are an unholy lot who take a “holier than thou attitude” on anything and everything — be it...

Life between strikes

Gaon Bandh By Poonam I Kaushish In this season of civic apathy and economic disgruntlement, clearly strikes are the flavour of the season. Over the decades,...

Not gdp alone, strategy vital

Pandemic 2nd Wave By Dhurjati Mukherjee The second wave of the pandemic posed a downside risk, severely affecting economic activity in the first quarter of the...

Challenges amid celebrations

Delhi Gets Woman CM By Insaf Women voters in Delhi have reason to cheer. Winner BJP, after 27 long years of vanvas (exile) in the national...

Injustice by govt?

Rise in Undertrials By Dhurjati Mukherjee There is a well-known saying that “justice delayed is justice denied”. But due to the enormous pendency of cases in...