New govt’s priorities
Beyond Borders
By Dr D.K. Giri
(Prof. International Politics, JMI)
After two months of mind and body-wrenching electioneering in the biggest democracy in the world, the results...
Policy overhaul critical
Induced Inflation
By Shivaji Sarkar
India needs to look at its falling demand, rising bank, power and fuel charges, high tax and toll rates. This is...
Aim viksit future by 2028
By Shivaji Sarkar
Bihar Freebie Trap
Bihar’s 2025 elections are shaping up as a decisive moment for the state’s future. Once again, the political narrative is...
Are climate funds adequate?
COP27 & After
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
Umpteen numbers of reports and research studies have come out in recent years regarding the extent of global warming and...
Govt money is neta’s money
Its Raining Populist Freebies
By Poonam I Kaushish
It is a perfect electoral cake rolled out by various Parties to the strains of ‘Vote For Me.’...
BJP battles for allies
2019: War of Positions
By Poonam I Kaushish
Italian Marxist, Antonio Gramsci's 'War of Positions' and 'War of Manoeuvres' indicate two different phases in a power...
Nation must wake up
Danger of Mobocracy
By Dr S.Saraswathi
(Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi)
Speaking at the orientation programme for new members of Rajya Sabha, Vice President and Chairman M...
Double Talk on Communalism
By Inder Jit
(Released on 9 May 1989)
Brave and splendid words were spoken again in Parliament last week to denounce communalism. The nation was alerted...
Review policy formulation
Reforms & Growth
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
Reform is a much talked about word, borrowed from the West, which means that such initiatives would boost up growth....
Crisis of confidence
Inevitable Blame Game
By DrS.Saraswathi
(Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi)
When COVID-19 is at its peak, the nationis also in the midst of a worst blame game...
Reform centres for inmates?
‘Open Jails’
By Dr. Oishee Mukherjee
The Supreme Court has favoured setting up of ‘open jails’, where inmates will not be confined within prison walls and...
Biting more than can chew
Quotas And Queues
By Poonam I Kaushish
Quotas and queues are back on the political platter amidst hectic electioneering in five States. But with a good...
Misplaced, recast ‘reforms’
30 Yrs Of Liberalisation
By Shivaji Sarkar
Thirty years and India is still waiting for the dream to turn real. Liberalisation of the economy way back...
Swadeshi saving to fund Govt
Moving Away From Nehru
By Shivaji Sarkar
The Modi-led NDA-II’s budget has changed the focus to peg India’s finances on village and farms, clearly a visible...
Despair to dignified opening
Migration Commission
By Dr. Saraswathi
(Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi)
The current migrant workers crisis triggered as a by-product of COVID-19 pandemic has exposed many problems in...
Railways’ Priority
Bullet train or infrastructure?
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
The recent tragedy at Mumbai’s Elphinstone Road foot over-bridge where over 23 persons died and 39 injured due to...
Hurried, but ineffective?
Welfare Programmes
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
The process of governance over the years, via discussions and debates, has undergone a change in India. As is evident, there...
Arunachal win br in women’s beach soccer
Arunachal Pradesh won the bronze medal in the women's beach soccer at the 2nd Khelo India Beach Games in Ghoghla Beach, Diu. This was...
India sides with Israel
Hamas' Attack
By Dr D.K. Giri
(Secretary General, Assn for Democratic Socialism)
Hamas, a militant outfit purportedly representing Palestine cause launched a horrific assault on Israel on...
Weak may sink strong
Bank Mergers
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
It has been reported that the GDP has grown by only 5 per cent in the quarter ended June, which was...