Focus on small farmers vital
Open Forum
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
Agricultural reforms are imperative in our country as these have a high potential to look after a major segment of...
Who benefits the most?
Interim Budget
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
Budget analysis from various angles is found reflected in the media. Economists, financial experts, and others involved in the analysis rarely...
Farmers’ own middlemen
Revitalise FPOs
By Moin Qazi
The farmers’ agitation against the new farm laws is far from ebbing. The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee (AIKSCC) has...
Lesson for unjust G-20
Diwali Bonanza
By Shivaji Sarkar
The Indian economy is now moving up after certain unsavoury scenarios of note-ban and pandemic closures of activities. Gold sales are...
As BRICS beckons
India-China Talks
By (Prof.) Dr D.K. Giri
(Secretary General, Assn
For Democratic Socialism)
In the run-up to BRICS summit in South Africa to be held on August 22-24...
Why India grasps stakes
Europe's Shadow War
By Piotr Opalinski
(Expert, Centre for Intl Relations, Poland)
Across Europe, a quiet but escalating shadow war is unfolding. A series of sabotage attempts,...
It’s India’s call!
China Must Fall
By Dr D.K. Giri
(Prof, International Politics, JMI)
In a violent clash between the Indian and Chinese soldiers last Monday at Galwan Valley in...
Vital for just social order
Independence of Judiciary
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
Justice Ranjan Gogoi, who is expected to be the next Chief Justice of India, recently analysed the problems of the...
Wake up call to govt?
Bankers, Farmers' Protests
By Shivaji Sarkar
Indian farmers and bankers have put up a strong challenge to the move of privatisation, corporatisation of the economy and...
21st century challenge
World Youth Skills Day
By Dr. S Saraswathi
(Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi)
Celebrating the World Youth Skills Day, we cannot but feel ashamed that on the...
Targets poor, ease of living
BJP Eyes 2047
By Shivaji Sarkar
In the 75th year of Independence, the BJP is setting the goals to work continuously till the centenary, 2047, riding...
Time for booster
Politics of Vaccine
By Poonam I Kaushish
Covid-19 announced itself to the world as 2020 dawned blitzing globally, unnerving health systems, nose diving economies and the...
SC sticks to nrc deadline
Anxious Assam
By Insaf
‘Citizens’ in Assam are in a tizzy. The deadline of July 31 for finalisation of the National Register of Citizens remains...
The misguided students?
Of Streets & Classrooms
By Proloy Bagchi
It appears from what the newspapers say or what the media shows that the entire country has become secular...
All is not well?
Patna Vs Delhi
By Insaf
Tit-for-tat is being played out in Bihar. An angry Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has inducted eight new ministers in his Cabinet...
India awaits new economy
Curbs On Asset Sales
By Shivaji Sarkar
The Delhi Assembly election award goes to soft inclusive skills against campaigning on hard on issues of identity. It...
Govt holy cow, biz milk it
'Hanuman' Never Wakes Up
By Shivaji Sarkar
The lament of India – from Jawahar Lal Nehru to Nirmala Sitharaman — has not changed after 70 years....
India fails its women
Stree Shakti Anyone?
By Poonam I Kaushish
Women are the buzz words in this silly electoral season with ballot boxes in Himachal sealed and Gujarat and...
Need to reinvent
Governor Tattle
By Poonam I Kaushish
The more things change the more they remain the same. A lexicon which resonates in the corridors of power when...
What constitutional norms?
'State' Of Head
By Poonam I Kaushish
It’s a killer world and everything topsy turvy! First there’s the Parliament logjam, a tussle between BJP and Congress...