Which master’s voice?
CBI Vs CBI
By Poonam I Kaushish
It was an unprecedented midnight coup when in the stealth of night 1am CBI Director Alok Verma was replaced...
How safe are we?
India's Exports Slide
Rajiv Gupta
It has not been even a month since the horrific bomb blast at the Red Fort, but already it seems like...
Skewed & contradictory
Budgetary Projections
By Shivaji Sarkar
A high-expectation ambitious Union Budget can have many contradictions. On the one hand it aims too high, and on the other...
Indian crisis beyond shores?
‘Digital Berlin Wall’
By Shivaji Sarkar
India is complex. So is its economy. It is stated to be in crisis, its merchandise sales, core sector and...
Who will emerge chanakya?
Political Diary
By Poonam I Kaushish
Lonely lies the head that wears the crown. And nobody knows this better than Chief Minister Nitish Kumar who...
‘Godmen’ exploitation unchecked
Hathras Tragedy
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
The fanaticism manifested in Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras which touched around 121 people killed in the stampede is indeed distressing. According to...
Right spend in question
Wasteful Nation
By Shivaji Sarkar
Periodic festive post-lockdown sales are not indicators of the economy booming for sustainable development as the slump may loom large. There...
A mini revolution
New Education Policy
By Dr S. Saraswathi
(Former Director, ISSCR, New Delhi)
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that the new National Education Policy (NEP) will mark...
The Identity Trap
By Rajiv Gupta
Most people who have gone through a job interview will be familiar with the question, “Tell me about yourself” where the interviewee...
Sanitation Initiative
Build people’s campaign
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
The Government’s initiative on sanitation to make the country “open defecation free” by October 2, 2019 is well meaning but...
Reading Modi’s mind
UN Vote On Jerusalem
By Dr DK Giri
(Prof, International Politics, JMI)
The US President Donald Trump’s declaration on 6th December recognising Jerusalem as the capital of...
Triggers stunning losses
The Great Miscommunication
By Shivaji Sarkar
It’s about miscommunication and unfathomed losses. Never has the Gulf wars jolted India so hard.
India’s recent anxiety over a supposed...
State govts challenge post
Role of Governors
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
Recently Vice-Chancellors of seven Kerala universities have moved the High Court seeking direction to cancel the Chancellor’s show cause notice...
Blend of realism & restraint
Vajpayee's Foreign Policy
By Dr. D. K. Giri
(Prof. International Politics, JMI)
Atal Bihari Vajpayee left deep footprints on Indian politics in the six decades of his...
Warnings ignored play havoc
Joshimath Calamity
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
Reports on the sinking town of Joshimath get worse. Water is now said to be gushing out of fields while houses...
Neta: Don’t cast vote, vote caste
Quota In Perpetuity
By Poonam I Kaushish
With elections round the corner, quotas and queues are back on the political platter as the BJP-led NDA Government...
Prices, graft roil economy
Court Exposes Kinks
By Shivaji Sarkar
Innocuous developments are unfolding amidst the growing fervour of the impending elections. Despite concerns of the Reserve Bank of India...
Fresh assault on judiciary
By Inder Jit
(Released on 27 January 1981)
Another Republic Day has rolled by. The nation has gone through the ritual of annual celebrations at the...
Pervasive, clarity vital
Land, Forest Encroachment
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
The encroachment of land and forests in the country is not just physical and bluntly visible but matched by statistics....
Strategic defence pact
Saudi Arabia & Pakistan
By Piotr Opalinski
(Expert, Centre for International Relations, Poland)
The Defence Agreement, signed last month by Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, is another sign...