Corruption, cbi and Vigilance

By Inder Jit (Released on 12 January 1988) The Central Vigilance Commission’s latest report should make all those interested in good, clean Government sit up. The...

De-risking & repositioning

Europe & India By Dr Maciej Artur Gaca (Expert, Centre for Intl Relations, Poland) In the past three years, both the European Union and India have been...

Additional funds critical

NEP & Budget By Dhurjati Mukherjee The National Education Policy (NEP) continues to solicit much debate and educationists will be eagerly looking forward to the Budget...

Paradigm shift in thinking vital

Digital Finance Inclusion By Moin Qazi The financial industry’s efforts to serve lower-income customers have gone through four distinct phases: from social banking to micro-finance to...

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...

The road ahead

India's Kashmir By Poonam I Kaushish The stars of BJP seem to be on an ascend. After winning Assembly elections in the Hindu heartland Rajasthan, Madhya...

Forgotten & blurred?

Gandhi's Vision By Dhurjati Mukherjee The ongoing farmers’ agitation should make policy makers take a relook at Mahatma Gandhi’s ‘gram swaraj’ (village self-rule), wherein the farmer...

Social transformation critical

Religion-Based Crimes By Dhurjati Mukherjee Religion-based crimes are disturbingly on the rise in the country. Whether this is result of Government policies and/or the party in...

Rehabilitation, rural focus vital

Maoists' Surrender By Dhurjati Mukherjee The surrender of hundreds of Maoists in Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra in recent weeks has no doubt been the government’s achievement. It...

Economic disenchantment

Gandhi's India By Shivaji Sarkar The nation pays homage to Mahatma Gandhi, a grass-root thinker, amid protests by farmers in Uttar Pradesh for more relief, the...

Delhi, Dacca and friendship

By Inder Jit (Released on 7 April 1981) Bangladesh and its capital Dacca are a far cry from Delhi and most other parts, of India, barring...

Strategy for elections?

Union of Regional Parties By DrS.Saraswathi (Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi) “Regional parties will build up national parties. They alone can defeat the BJP”, said West Bengal...

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...

Are we girls or play things?

Woman = Stigma By Poonam I Kaushish What is moral? And what constitutes morality? Do one’s morals end where another’s nose begins? Sizzling questions which strips...

Assam Cm going overboard?

'Anti-Muslim' Rhetoric By Insaf Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma’s anti-Muslim rhetoric is jarring. In the ongoing Assembly session, he claimed crime rate hasn’t increased if...

The road ahead

J&K Message By Poonam I Kaushish The winner takes it all! Be it salubrious J&K or burly Haryana. As no-stops-barred battles gives way to elected Governments...

Tight rope walk for India?

Hosting Rouhani Dr. D.K. Giri (Prof. International Politics, JMI) President of Iran Hassan Rouhani was in India between 15-17 February. He was returning the obligation of Prime...

Whose life is it, anyway?

An Intolerable Toll? By Poonam I Kaushish Stuck records are tiresome. But when tragedy struck Capital’s New Delhi’s railway station Saturday night killing 18 people and...

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...

Hypocrisy is the new black

Amar Prem To Kati Patang By Poonam I Kaushish It’s the silly political season where hypocrisy is the new black. Forget ideology and corruption stigma. Till...