Dance of democracy

US, India Elections By Rajiv Gupta Winston Churchill is reported to have said, “Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others that...

Recession fear grips

Fortune Lost In Stocks Crash By Shivaji Sarkar The Indian stock market is crashing again, perhaps on artificial resuscitation and gasping. The pressure is building. Recent...

Discourtesy to parliament

By Inder Jit (Released on 28 Feb 1984) Parliament is still not getting from Mrs Gandhi and the ruling Congress-I the respect and courtesy that is...

The Sri Lankan Prime Minister Comes Calling – Reassuring India

By Dr. D.K. Giri Prof. International Politics, JMI Mahinda Rajapaksa, The Prime Minister of Sri Lanka who is perhaps the de facto President of Sri Lanka,...

Is it justified?

Encounter Killing By Dr. Oishee Mukherjee The killings of four persons in Hyderabad allegedly accused of rape once again point to organized violence of the State....

Erosion must be stemmed

Human Rights Day By Dhurjati Mukherjee Today, as the world observes Human Rights Day every year, India and its government must reflect on its record. With...

India’s Rulers and the Republic

By Inder Jit (Released on 26 January 1988) Several sharp questions are being asked at home and abroad as India celebrates its 38th Republic Day with...

Gulf crisis seeks strategy

Towards Green Energy By Dhurjati Mukherjee In the wake of the Middle East crisis, the need for acceleration of green energy in India assumes great significance...

India’s diplomatic balancing act

US Invasion of Venezuela By Dr. D.K. Giri (Prof of Practice, NIIS Group of Institutions) The recent US invasion of Venezuela has sent shockwaves across the globe,...

Uttarakhand shows way

Cluster Ventures By Shivaji Sarkar A country that is having crunch of jobs is going a different way for creation of livelihood in the poorest areas...

Time to evoke esma

Diminshing Parliament By Poonam I Kaushish Yawn! We have been through this before. Of how India’s temple of democracy Parliament is increasingly being called a mockery,...

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...

Hits poor, profits big firms

Digital Technology By Shivaji Sarkar The most coveted digitalisation and hyperglobalisation has come in for severe criticism by the United Nations. It helps big firms, big...

India’s albatross

The Nowhere People By Poonam I Kaushish Circa 1975: Hundreds of thousands fled South Vietnam after Saigon’s fall for fear of political persecution, the largest mass...

Let’s talk of today, not past

Beyond The Kashmir Files By Sagarneel Sinha The recent controversial statement made by the Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid on Vivek Agnihotri’s directorial film, The Kashmir Files,...

Pandemic exposes faultlines

Economic Plugging By Moin Qazi A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say:...

Imaginary distinction

Outsider-Insider By Dr. S. Saraswathi (Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi) Hundreds of workers who had gone to Kashmir in search of employment are reported to be fleeing...

India’s response

Global Trade War By Prof. D K Giri (Professor of Practice, NIIS Group, Bhubaneswar) The unilateral and universal tariff imposed by Donald Trump had shaken the world....

Reaping political benefits?

Cow, Profitable Business By Poonam I Kaushish The drumbeaters are busy serenading the victorious in the keenly fought five States polls, the losers sulk behind closed...

Where is society heading?

Violence Rhetoric Of The Times By Poonam I Kaushish Violence is the rhetoric of the times. Pick any newspaper. Any day. Splashes of social schism gore...