Mahagathbandhangamble?

Bihar Drama By Insaf From Maharashtra to Bihar, the political shenanigans get more intriguing. With Nitish Kumar dumping the BJP and taking oath as Chief Minister...

Laws don’t cut down graft

Inflated Bills Main Vote Plank By Shivaji Sarkar Two landmark judgments, one on the electoral bonds scheme and the other JMM - Jharkhand Mukti Morcha bribery...

Checking soil erosion vital

Combating Desertification By Dhurjati Mukherjee The recently concluded conference of UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD COP 15) at Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire found that desertification has been...

Cpm’s gen next gamble

Kerala Cabinet By Insaf Gen Next, is CPM’s strategy to stay alive. At least in God’s own country, Kerala. The Pinarayi Vijayan-led LDF government’s decision, to...

Parliament and the opposition

By Inder Jit (Released on 15 January 1985) All eyes are on the new Lok Sabha, which is due to assemble today for its first sitting....

Vile disinformation on Kashmir

By Inder Jit (Released on 3 July 1990) Public memory is proverbially short. It seems to be even shorter in regard to the Kashmir developments, especially...

Churning in opposition camps

West Bengal Politics By Sagarneel Sinha It is going to be a year this May since Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress returned back to power in West...

Tmc mp defiant, party silent

'Cash For Query' Scam By Insaf Will West Bengal’s TMC’s firebrand MP Mahua Moitra weather the political storm in the ‘cash for query’ scandal involving her?...

Numbers that don’t add up

By Rajiv Gupta The number system is one of the moreremarkable inventions of humans. I find numbers very fascinating as the basic rules of the...

Vital office, not sinecure

By Inder Jit (Released on 19 April 1983) Thinking people anxious to see Centre-State relations function smoothly and develop along healthy lines will need to devote...

Where is society heading?

Violent Sense Vs Moral Sensibility By Poonam I Kaushish Violence is the rhetoric of the times. Pick any newspaper. Any day. Splashes of social schism gore...

‘Fixed match’, ‘Kangroo court’?

TMC MP Moitra's Expulsion By Insaf Will the West Bengal TMC MP Mahua Moitra’s “cash-for-query”case go down in parliamentary history, as claimed by her, is a...

Humanising entertainment

Banning Animals In Circus By Dr S. Saraswathi (Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi) The Centre’s draft proposal to ban the use of all animals in any performance,...

Remove confusion

Covid Ex Gratia By Dr S. Saraswathi (Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi) The Supreme Court directed the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) to quantify within six weeks...

Media exposed

The sting operation carried out by news website Cobrapost have exposes how Indian media houses plays scandalous politics behind the scene. During the investigation...

Fm spur scarce, cash dole vital

Global Crisis Till 2030 By Shivaji Sarkar The devastation caused by pandemic ensued lockdown may take ten long years to recover and the world economy may...

Religion & power politics

Lingayat Minority By Dr S.Saraswathi (Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi) BJP President Amit Shah's categorical announcement that his party will not support a minority religious tag to...

Poll body turns partisan?

By Inder Jit (Released on 11 January 1983) Mercifully, the people of Delhi have been given what has been their due for long. Elections have...

Bjp’s war of manoeuvres

Ayodhya Gambit By Poonam I Kaushish Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci's 'War of Positions' and 'War of Manoeuvres' indicate two different phases in a power struggle. While...

Tall, can India deliver?

COP26 Promises By Dhurjati Mukherjee The just-concluded COP26 summit was full of commitments as is usually the case with most major international events, but how much...