Judiciary must act
Increase in PILs
By Dr S. Saraswathi
(Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi)
Replying to the debate on the Arbitration and Conciliation (Amendment) Act, 2021 passed by the...
Behead hatred
Season of Poison
By Poonam I Kaushish
The power of rhetorical public abuse by our leaders’ underscores political discourse is only rabble rousing, devoid of substance,...
India & world react
Putin Wins 5th Term
By Prof. (Dr.) D.K. Giri
(Secretary General, Assn for Democratic Socialism)
The landslide victory of Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin in the presidential elections last...
Kiski laathi aur kiski bhains?
ED's Questionable Credibility
By Poonam I Kaushish
What is it about yesterday’s Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and today’s Enforcement Directorate (ED) that it is always...
Is Govt stifling freedom?
New Grammar of Sedition
By Poonam I Kaushish
“Off with her head, arguments later”, ordered the Queen in Alice in Wonderland. A term synonymous in modern...
Why voters choose differently
Centre, State Elections
By Brij Bhardwaj
Political observers have been pre-occupied with the attempts by opposition leaders to unite and form a common front to take...
Belling the illegal cat
'India's "Boat People"
By Poonam I Kaushish
In the summer of 1975, hundreds of thousands fled South Vietnam after Saigon’s fall for fear of political persecution....
Rising costs cut firm profits
SVB Ruin May Hit India
By Shivaji Sarkar
Amid changing global scenario, companies facing complex situation of weakness in people’s consumption and contraction in operating profit,...
Brave rhetoric, little action
By Inder Jit
(Released on 3 March 1987)
Communalism and religious fundamentalism have been strongly denounced once again in Parliament. The nation has been warned sharply...
Electoral end game starts
Gubernatorial Rejig
By Poonam I Kaushish
The more things change the more they remain the same. An adage which resonates in the corridors of power when...
Expanding commonalities
India-Sweden Ties
By Dr. D.K. Giri
(Prof. International Politics, JMI)
In the wake of a high level delegation visit from Sweden accompanying the king Carl XVI Gustaf...
Nation’s Children
Jharkhand too gives a damn
By Insaf
Jharkhand government should hang its head in shame. Close on the heels of UP’s Gorakhpur medical college tragedy, a...
The Population Imperative
By Dr. Karan Singh, M.P.
(Released on 31 March 1981)
The provisional population figures for the 1981 census have just been released, and before commenting on...
‘Know-all’ system won’t do
Slowdown, Poverty
By Shivaji Sarkar
Human tragedies refuse to die. The triple tragedy of the economy – note ban, convoluted multiple tax system and the panicky...
Rajiv’s China visit and Nehru
US Tariff War
By Inder Jit
(Released on 20 December 1988)
The Prime Minister, Mr. Rajiv Gandhi, now in Beijing, deserves a hand for his bold initiative...
Situating ‘operation sindoor’
Democracy & Disruption
By Prof (Dr) DK Giri
(Professor of Practice, NIIS Group of Institutions)
The last week has been eventful in global geopolitics in terms of...
Impacts markets, tumble
Himalayan Fury
By Shivaji Sarkar
Gigantic Himalayan tragedies rock and destabilise the Indian economy as development becomes fad. The 15.9 per cent wholesale inflation, stock sensex...
Understanding Equality
India’s key challenge
By Dr. Oishee Mukherjee
Over a period of time there has been renewed interest on inequality, specially after the publication of renowned French...
Ease financial milieu
Rising Food Prices
By Shivaji Sarkar
Rising food prices are adding to the woes of postcorona lockdown recovery. States such as West Bengal, Assam or Uttar...
Political warlords of Bharat
Celebration Kis ki Aur Kya?
By Poonam I Kaushish
How does one begin an epitaph of the year gone by? Uncork the champagne and roll out...