‘Holier-than-thou’ rant

Appeasement Politics By Poonam I Kaushish It’s the silly season of appeasement politics wherein democracy is a conflict of interests masquerading as a contest of principles....

Salami slicing tactics fail?

Chinese Checkers in Ladakh Political Diary By Poonam I Kaushish Dr Jekyll or Mr Hyde? Both. Indeed, India-China relations are like a kaleidoscope of good and...

Psbs better on thin spread

More Pvt Banks Fail By Shivaji Sarkar Public sector banks (PSB) are critically needed today as these were in 1969, is virtually the message that the...

Tale of pm, Speaker & Rahul

Anhoni Jab Honi Ho Jai By Poonam I Kaushish Fatigued and bored of first phase of Parliament’s tumultuous Budget session. Wake up. Three,   unthinkable things happened...

A wake up call

Tawang Clashes By Dr. D.K. Giri (Prof. International Relations, JIMMC) On 9 December, the Indian and Chinese troops clashed at Yangtse in Tawang sector in Arunachal Pradesh....

The new ‘great game’

Central Asia Geostrategy By Piotr Opaliñski (Centre fort International Relations, Poland) Central Asia, for over a century perceived as an arena of struggle between external powers, and...

Govt money is Neta’s money yaar!

Tadka of Populist Revadi By Poonam I Kaushish It is a perfect electoral cake rolled out by various Parties to the strains of ‘Vote For Me,’...

Murder in School & Child Abuse

Coarse correction vital By Dr. S.Saraswathi (Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi) A shocking incident of a teenage murder two months ago at a school in Gurugram in...

Who will benefit, bjp or sp?

Mayawati's Decline By Sagarneel Sinha As Assembly elections draw closer, the political heat gradually gathers its steam in Uttar Pradesh, the most crucial State having the...

Majority arrogance imperils system

Diversifying Agriculture By Inderjit (Published on 1 March 1988) Arrogance of majority power is beginning to imperil our Parliamentary democracy even as we celebrate the 40th year...

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...

More seats, doctors critical

Medical Education By Dr Oishee Mukherjee The Modi government has taken a number of steps to increase medical seats as well as availability of doctors in...

Safety a critical issue

Jr Doctors' Strike By Dr. Oishee Mukherjee The junior doctors’ strike in West Bengal has drawn sharp focus on safety of doctors while discharging their duties....

Diplomacy & war

India On Ukraine By Prof. (Dr.) D.K. Giri (Secy Gen, Assn for Democratic Socialism) The Ukrainian war has completed one thousand days with horrible deaths and devastation...

Both lose $ 1500 million

Indo-Pak Singham War By Shivaji Sarkar Playing Little Singham is the cheapest way of releasing energy and keeping cool for many millennials (new generation kids). Usually...

Index & reality

Hunger in India By Dr.S.Saraswathi (Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi) It is not in India’s fortune to remain happy with its achievements for any long time as...

Halt land degradation

Rising Desertification By Dhurjati Mukherjee Desertification has emerged as a critical problem across the world, specially due to climate change and global warming. This has led...

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...

Consensus needed on basic issues

By Inder Jit (Released on 1 November 1983) Consensus has become a fashionable word in New Delhi these days. Everyone who is anyone now talks of...

The big Indian way?

Celebrating Democracy By Dr D.K. Giri (Prof. International Relations, JIMMC) September 15th is the International Day of Democracy celebrated at the behest of United Nations across the...