Separation of powers blurred
NTF For Covid-19
By DrS.Saraswathi
(Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi)
The Supreme Court hasset up a 12-member National Task Force (NTF) to facilitate public health response to...
Govt must halt unholy nexus
Pvt Coaching Centres
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
The parliamentary standing committee on education has recently recommended to the government to curb the growing unholy nexus between colleges...
Concocted, fooling public?
Poverty Data
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
A very recent discussion paper released by Niti Aayog titled ‘Multidimensional Poverty in India since 2008-09’, authored by member Ramesh Chandra and...
Forgotten & blurred?
Gandhi's Vision
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
The ongoing farmers’ agitation should make policy makers take a relook at Mahatma Gandhi’s ‘gram swaraj’ (village self-rule), wherein the farmer...
Political harlotry unbridled
By Inder Jit
(Released on 16 June 1981)
Prostitution is legally banned in India. But political harlotry continues to flourish brazenly. What is worse, it is...
Cultural Vultures
Life in ‘official’ slim stip
By Poonam I Kaushish
Democracy is a conflict of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. A succinct saying which aptly...
Big budget path not easy
Farmer, Trader Welfare
By Shivaji Sarkar
The Narendra Modi government begins its second term by opening up its kitty for the newly- emerging rural farm sector...
On paper, intent missing
COP Pledges
By Shivaji Sarkar
The climate summit COP26 is galore of promises as desertification the world over increases. The meet is less on concrete...
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....
Increase with its primacy
Election Commission Woes
Dr.S.Saraswathi
(Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi)
A six-member delegation of the Trinamool Congress submitted a memorandum to the Election Commission of India alleging “deep-rooted...
Money does talk!
$7 Billion Election
By Shivaji Sarkar
Elections are becoming trickier, opaque and a game of money power. Rigging polls is no more a hush-hush matter. In...
Pragmatic Push For Peace
By Inder Jit
(Released on 29 December 1977)
Quiet has once again descended over the historic and imposing headquarters of the United Nations in New York....
Is Modi vincible?
BJP Takes Big Hit
By Poonam I Kaushish
Circa 2014: India voted for change and a new power paradigm on the wings of hope and trust....
Centre, states blame game
Rural Employment
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
There were recent protests in the Lok Sabha during the Budget session of Parliament regarding long delays in the release of...
Globalisation via local route
Atmanirbhar Bharat
By Dr S. Saraswathi
(Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi)
Atmanirbhar Bharat, meaning self-reliant India, is the goal set before us as a panacea to recover...
Bjp’s Nirvana 2019?
Ayodhya Again
By Poonam I Kaushish
Politicians are an unholy lot! They take a "holier than thou attitude" on anything and everything be it religion or...
$236 b job profit racket
Illegal Indian Immigrants
By Shivaji Sarkar
The multi-trillion-dollar illegal profit generating world immigration rackets thrive on freely available private telecom company sims, fake bank accounts, anonymity,...
Fresh look at India-US ties
By Inder Jit
(Released on 11 December 1984)
The poll battle is hotting up. Salvoes are being fired from both sides. Nevertheless, normal life and work...
Who controls babudom?
Centre-States Tussle
By Poonam I Kaushish
A Government of India car drives into Delhi’s Lodi garden at 6.30am, ‘saab’ instructs his driver to stay ‘right here’....
Independent ec, really?
Election Omission
By Poonam I Kaushish
What is it about Election Commission and cleansing the political cesspool that scares our polity away? Specially when they love...