Money hai to power hai!

Market For Defectors By Poonam I Kaushish In these hot climes, political India is feeling the heat and how! One doesn’t know who is sleeping with...

Stop sweeping muck under carpet

Guillotine Hate By Poonam I Kaushish Democracy is a conflict of interests masquerading as a contest of principles, an adage which shows how we are sinking...

20 per cent tcs, jitters biz

Rs 2000-Note Death Order By Shivaji Sarkar It has been a shock,big surprise and unexpected. At a young age of six years the Rs 2000 note...

Challenges to conduct one exam

NEET-NET Fiasco By Dhurjati Mukherjee The new government has been engulfed in controversy regarding the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) and UGC-National Eligibility Test (NET)examination. That a...

Welfare of marginalised vital

Developmental Priorities By Dhurjati Mukherjee In the midst ofManipur burning, a grand Parliament building was inaugurated. For the Prime Minister and his government it’s a great...

Muslim women unshackled

Game Changing Act By Poonam I Kaushish Circa 1985: A five-member Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court overruled the Muslim Personal Law in the famous Shah...

Sshh…. About poll slush!

Election Funding By Poonam I Kaushish Money makes the clogged, polluted and corrupt political mare go around, and how! In the on-going Great Indian Dance of...

A perfect con job

My Ambedkar vs Yours By Poonam I Kaushish We’ve been through this before. Year after year. Of how Parliament is increasingly being devalued. Becoming a tamasha...

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...

ED in top gear

AAP MP latest on List By Insaf The Enforcement Directorate has got into top gear. The latest to receive its wrath is Aam Aadmi Party Rajya...

Championing peace

India's Foreign Policy By Dr. D.K. Giri (Secretary General, Assn for Democratic Socialism) The Minister for External Affairs asserted that New Delhi should strive to shape international...

Increase with its primacy

Election Commission Woes Dr.S.Saraswathi (Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi) A six-member delegation of the Trinamool Congress submitted a memorandum to the Election Commission of India alleging “deep-rooted...

Modi govt must rethink

Deficits & Debt By Shivaji Sarkar India is profligate. Its economic policies are away from realism, dependent on only one aspect of development – build, build...

Growth With Equity

Far-fetched ideal in India By Dr S Saraswathi (Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi) “India’s dynamics are striking. It is the country with the highest gap between the...

Reform sharing of resources

Environment & Sustainability By Dhurjati Mukherjee There is consistent discussion in the media as also conferences in many parts of the country regarding environmental concerns and...

Can we rise above petty politics?

Governance of Capital City By Dr. S.Saraswathi (Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi) The recent judgment of the Supreme Court's Constitution Bench clarifying the relative powers of the...

Hitting self-destruct button

Disunity In Unity? By Poonam I Kaushish Unity in disunity or disunity in unity? Flummoxed? Certainly, as INDIA bloc seems to have developed cracks. In the...

Relishing religion in political dish

A Meaty Affair By Poonam I Kaushish Move over meat eaters, Saffron storm-troopers are relishing the ban on sale of non-vegetarian products during Ram Navmi as...

Expedite power reforms

'One Nation, One Grid' By Dhurjati Mukherjee The various lockdowns in several States due to the Covid-19 pandemic, fortunately did not impact the manufacturing and services...

Pentagon report on Chinese armed forces

By Dr. Ewa Fronczak (Center for International Relations, Poland) The numbers don't lie - the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) is currently the largest armed force...