Law panel report outdated!
Sedition Law
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
The Law Commission of India’s 297threport ‘Usage of the Law of Sedition’, would come as a great disappointment to civil and...
Affordable housing critical
Urban Regeneration
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
The urban sector in India requires a thorough transformation. A fact well known and accepted by planners, but the requisite facelift...
Playing with communal fire
By Inder Jit
(Released on 31 May 1983)
Communalism continues to grow and grow fast. Mr. Charan Singh’s timely alert against disaster has made thinking people...
Reopening debate
Death Penalty
By Dr. S Saraswathi
(Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi)
Justice Kurien Joseph, on the eve of his retirement, delivered a judgement commuting the death sentence...
Campus Politics Unlawful
Repeat court verdict
By Dr S Saraswathi
(Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi)
A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court decisively banned student politics in college campuses...
Towards destruction of parliament
By Inder Jit
(Released on 25 August 1987)
Parliament today faces its biggest ever challenge and crisis. Some of us have deplored its decline over the...
Vital for just social order
Independence of Judiciary
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
Justice Ranjan Gogoi, who is expected to be the next Chief Justice of India, recently analysed the problems of the...
Govt’s bona fides on test
By Inder Jit
(Released on15 June 1982)
The selection of the new Chief Election Commissioner is regrettably not receiving the attention it deserves from the public...
‘Welfarism’must be thrust
Development Dynamics
By Dr Oishee Mukherjee
A recent news item in a national daily referred to a statement by Union Home Minister Amit Shah that Prime...
Opposition unitystumbles
President & VP Polls
By Insaf
The country can rejoice having its first tribal President Droupadi Murmu. It was a foregone conclusion that the NDA candidate would...
Strong states & strong centre
By Inder Jit
(Released on 12 March 1985)
Three cheers for our people. They have once again asserted their sovereignty. No one need have any doubt...
A dangerous game!
Politics of Labelling
By Dr. S. Saraswathi
(Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi)
A primary lesson for all political speakers is to avoid controversial terms particularly to malign...
Nation must wake up
Danger of Mobocracy
By Dr S.Saraswathi
(Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi)
Speaking at the orientation programme for new members of Rajya Sabha, Vice President and Chairman M...
India’s crony capitalism
The Adani Euphoria
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
The Adani saga has unfolded itself and the print media is making headlines on the Hindenburg report and the resultant...
States must aid centre
The MSP Demand
By Dr. S.S Chhina
(Senior Fellow, Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi)
Albeit the longest-ever protest from the farming community, especially in Punjab and...
‘Lawless’ UP
Yogi’s edict face changer?
By Insaf
Changing the face of “lawless” Uttar Pradesh is asking for the moon, but for Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath perhaps not....
Deficit mounts, exports falter
India's Trade Trap
By Shivaji Sarkar
India has been living with chronic trade deficits for nearly half a century. The last time the country recorded an...
The Dragon Blinks
Pragmatic engagement
By Dr. D.K. Giri
(Prof. International Politics, JMI)
The Chinese President Xi Jinping, expectedly, emerged stronger after the quinquennial Communist Party Congress last week. The...
Geopolitical bargaining chip
Rare Earth Elements
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
Rare earth elements (REEs) have come into sharp focus in recent times, with the search for minerals such as neodymium,...
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...