Free India´s Great Failure

By Indar Jit (Released on 19 September 1978) Nature alone is not to blame for the floods which have savagely hit India this year. Man is...

Abrogate colonial law?

SC & Sedition Law By Insaf The Supreme Court ushers a glimmer of hope, not just in Jammu & Kashmir but across the nation. On Wednesday...

Aid spread of education?

Knowledge Economy By Dhurjati Mukherjee Eight more British universities are set to begin operations in India in the near future, following the University of Southampton’s opening...

Bjp must see writing on the wall

Anti-Incumbency Factor By Sagarneel Sinha The 2024 Lok Sabha election is inching closer to its end with two phases remaining and initial trends are changing. At...

Fixing history or driving wedge?

Sambhal Shahi Masjid Row By Poonam I Kaushish It never ceases to surprise how our polity keeps sinking into the marshy cesspool of bloodied religious politicking....

Exposes il & fs type disaster

Road Tolls Mega Scam By Shivaji Sarkar It's a never-ending exposure. No, it is not a defence deal, but far more serious. The Infrastructure Leasing &...

As serious as crime?

Encounter Killings By Dr. S. Saraswathi (Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi) Encounter killing of four persons suspected of gang rape & murder of a veterinary doctor in...

Pointless political conflict

Governor & State Govt By Dr. S. Saraswathi (Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi) After Delhi and Puducherry, Tamil Nadu Governor is in the news now for conducting...

A critical assessment

16th Lok Sabha By Dr S. Saraswathi (Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi) The last session of the 16th Lok Sabha came to an end on February 13...

Time for new anti-defection law

Political Harlotry By Inder Jit (Released on 19 November 1996) Prostitution was legally banned in India some four decades ago. But political harlotry continues to grow and...

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...

Opposition chances brighten

By Inder Jit (Released on 27 April 1982) Opposition prospects in the mini-general poll are looking up. At long last, good sense appears to be prevailing...

Constitution’s 68th Anniversary

Sacrosanct, flexible & survived   By Dr S Saraswathi (Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi) India celebrated the 68th anniversary of adoption of its Constitution this 26th November with...

Its time to bell the cat

'Business' Of Illegal Migrants By Poonam I Kaushish In the summer of 1975, hundreds of thousands of people fled South Vietnam after Saigon's fall for fear...

Windfalls don’t make Economy

RBI Intervention By Shivaji Sarkar Some coincidences, some windfall, reworking fiscal package and falling growth rate mark the current economic developments. The transfer of Rs 1.76...

More than the house of lords

By Inder Jit (Released on 22 Nov. 1983) It is time the Rajya Sabha played the specific role specifically envisaged for it by the founding fathers...

India fails its streedhan

Rape & Reality By Poonam I Kaushish India is at war with its girls and women. As terrifying tales of savagery, nightmarish rapes, domestic abuse and...

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...

End culture of impunity

Dalit Nirbhaya By Poonam I Kaushish India is in conflict with its betis. If recalling the horrors of Nirbhaya, Kathua, Unnao, Muzzafarnagar, Telangana etc weren’t gut...

Wanted: Opposition that works

By Inder Jit (Released on 23 June 1981) The Opposition has none but itself to blame for coming to grief once again. It seems to have...