Will next govt alter situation?

Pervasive Insecurity By Dr Oishee Mukherjee The ongoing debate about present-day insecurity that we are witnessing in society is growing all the more with elections underway....

Justice executed?

Fake Encounters By Poonam I Kaushish Circa 28 November 2019 Hyderabad: A 23-year old veterinarian is raped and burnt, horrifying the nation. In a stunning twist...

India’s new normal

Modi 3.0 By Poonam I Kaushish How does one begin an epitaph of one year of Modi 3.0? Uncork champagne on the wings of new hopes...

Liquor shops under lockdown

Long for Freedom By Dr S Saraswathi (Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi) The Madras High Court on 8 May directed the State Government to close all 3,850...

Challenges for finance minister

Budget Musings By Dhurjati Mukherjee Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will be presenting Union Budget 2024 for this fiscal amidst a lot of challenges, thereby outlining economic...

Govt support, tech input vital

Boosting Farm Income By Dhurjati Mukherjee Two recent developments in the agricultural sector merit attention. The first is the constitution of the long-awaited committee to look...

Consequences for India

Trump In White House By Prof. (Dr.) D.K. Giri (Secy Gen, Assn for Democratic Socialism) Donald Trump becomes the 47th President of United States after the historical...

Gulf adding numbers grave

Job Losses By Shivaji Sarkar More job losses are predicted as migrant labourers in India and abroad, particularly in the Gulf, face relentless abuses, low...

Speaker caught in desert storm

Political & Partisan By Poonam I Kaushish A charade of duplicity or theatre of bias? For nearly a week now, the fast spinning political wheel...

RBI warns belt tigtening

Voter Fears Realistic By Shivaji Sarkar The definition of “vikas” (development) apparently changes as Uttar Pradesh goes to the polls, hard-pressed voters harp on myriad problems,...

Atlernative governance plan?

Congress Introspection By Dhurjati Mukherjee The recently concluded Chintan Shivir of the Congress at its Udaipur Declaration has given a call for ‘Bharat Jodo’ (United India)...

Election by selection

Party Presidentship   By Dr S. Saraswathi (Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi) The importance of party leadership position must have been realised by every citizen watching the process...

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...

Scrap it, make farmer king

Farming Trade Ordinance By Shivaji Sarkar Indian agriculture is a complex mix. It has myriad problems and the solutions suggested are often not practical. Interestingly,...

Prices, low capita concern

India Leaps ToBe 3rd largest By Shivaji Sarkar India is on its way to be the world’s three top economies in terms of monetary terms, as...

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...

Principles versus praxis

India's Foreign Policy By Dr. D.K. Giri (Prof. International Politics, JIMMC) The epic ‘Mahabharata’, famously filmed by B.R. Chopra, teaches us plenty of principles of statecraft in...

Routine or renewal!

By Prof (Dr.) D.K. Giri (Secy Gen, Assn for Democratic Socialism) Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake came on a three-day visit. This was his first...

Vital for societal change 

Women Leadership By Dr. Oishee Mukherjee The passage of the long-pending Women’s Reservation Bill renamed as ‘Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam’ should give hope to nearly half...

Ec kachahari: Jo jeeta wohi sikander!

'Laapata Gentlemen' By Poonam I Kaushish Phew! Tomorrow as ballot boxes are counted we shall know who will sit on India’s Raj gaddi in this hard-fought...