Risk to life & prosperity

River Crisis By Dr Oishee Mukherjee Atmospheric pollution is a major concern, as is the contamination of rivers and lakes. Studies reveal that rivers are dying...

Towards closer Indo Japanese ties

By Inder Jit (Released on 26 November 1985) Japan appears to be looking forward to opening a new chapter in Indo-Japanese friendship and cooperation. This is...

Deficit mounts, exports falter

India's Trade Trap By Shivaji Sarkar India has been living with chronic trade deficits for nearly half a century. The last time the country recorded an...

Citizens’ common cause

By Inder Jit (Released on September 4, 1979) Revulsion against the current state of politics in the country continues to snowball. Never before has greater contempt...

From ‘us’ to ‘them’

Hijab Controversy By Poonam I Kaushish What’s in a dress? Nothing, it’s a form of clothing, but the maelstrom over the innocuous Muslim hijab (headscarf) banned...

One nation one election, anyone?

UCC: Tiptoeing Stealthily By Poonam I Kaushish It’s been a raucous winter session of Parliament. But in its penultimate week Prime Minister Modi continued to have...

Will it win popular support?

BJP's Corruption Mantra The first phase of polling over,it’s getting increasingly interesting to watch how far BJP and its star campaigner Prime Minister Modi will...

Mustn’t rush for infra

Crisis-Hit India By Shivaji Sarkar The Ukraine war is upending India’s dream budget and now gets further bruised with high rise in crude prices and retail...

Doles no longer lure

Parties Clueless Of PMP By Shivaji Sarkar This election is about PMP —- poverty management programme —- an economic agenda that is unclear and all political...

For better or worse?

Parliament:New Beginning By Poonam I Kaushish There are institutions and moments which rise above politics and touches what lies beneath. Parliament is one such, the temple...

Winds of change blowing?

By Sagarneel Sinha Political battleground is hotting up in West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Assam and Pudducherry as these go to the polls this year...

Battle Against Poverty

Poor must lead agenda By Moin Qazi This year marks the 25th anniversary of the declaration by the United Nations of 17 October as the International Day for...

Confident, wary of 3 states

BJP's 2024 Battle By Sagarneel Sinha Replying to the No-confidence motion in Lok Sabha Prime Minister Modi said: “Opposition has betrayed the people of India. They have...

The road ahead

By Poonam I Kaushish Circa 5 August 2019: In one fell stroke Article 370 was wiped out from India’s Constitution and Jammu & Kashmir State...

Economic costs be damned!

My Subsidy, Your Revadi By Poonam I Kaushish It is raining freebies wherein sound economic sense has been surrendered to political gamesmanship. Reckless subsidies are being...

Salaam Bombay, says Delhi?

Maharashtra Drama By Insaf Mumbai today mirrors everything that’s rotten with the system and the country. The unfolding high drama between Kangana Ranaut, the Shiv Sena,...

Democracy dented

Snooping Row By Dhurjati Mukherjee Parliament’s monsoon session turned out to be disappointing, with the Modi government refusing to yield to the Opposition demand for a...

Manufacturing hub envisioned

No More Critical Exports By Shivaji Sarkar The call for atmanirbhar Bharat has been given a new touch for “enhancing capacity, creativity and skills”. In his...

Holier than thou conversions!

Love Jihad By Poonam I Kaushish India is once again caught up in a battle royale between the Gods, in a new age avatar: Love...

Deleting inequality vital

Digital Divide By Dhurjati Mukherjee Rural poverty in India has been manifest in various studies, specially Oxfam, and the widening income disparity, not just between the...