Redraft economic vision
Votes of Aspiration
By Shivaji Sarkar
The BJP, rather Narendra Modi, has stunned the world. Resounding victory touching 352 plus is a rare feat in...
Never-ending exercise?
Assam's NRC
By Insaf
Assam’s NRC conundrum lingers on. Both the Centre and the State government have again knocked on the Supreme Court’s door seeking extension...
Windfalls don’t make Economy
RBI Intervention
By Shivaji Sarkar
Some coincidences, some windfall, reworking fiscal package and falling growth rate mark the current economic developments. The transfer of Rs 1.76...
Leaks Foreign Exchange?
Liberalised Remittance Scheme
Vijay Mallya, Nirav Modi and Mehul Choksi are not the only people who have parked their wealth abroad. They have, however, done...
Will new policy meet target?
Right to Water
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
Yet another National Water Policy is on the anvil. The Union Water Resources Ministry has finalised a 10-member committee under chairmanship...
Tribunal permanent remedy
Chronic Defections
By Dr.S.Saraswathi
(Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi)
The Supreme Court is indeed forced to make a rather drastic recommendation that Parliament should by an amendment...
Ideology be damned
MP Crisis
By Insaf
To be or not to be, that is the question. Not just in Madhya Pradesh but across parties, States and of course...
Making a mockery of law
TN Custodial Deaths
By Insaf
Reprehensible! The alleged custodial death of father and son in a police station in Tamil Nadu has sent shock waves across...
Covid-19 makes a strong case
Social Housing
By Moin Qazi
The unprecedented displacement of people across the country following the pandemic has challenged us with a new set of priorities. While...
Gandhis, Congress dna
Purge of G 23
By Poonam I Kaushish
How does one react to the on-going Grand Old Party’s Circus? Dismiss it as a storm in a...
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...
Are we heading for second wave?
Vaccination Push, YeT…
By Poonam I Kaushish
The Covid 19 pandemic is the most tumultuous, most catastrophic and the most defining epoch of our lifetime which...
Focus on rural India vital
Education Neglect
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
The New Year calls for reversing the neglect in the education sector. Policies are framed with high sounding targets without a...
Jo jeeta woh sikander!
SC Rues Criminals In Politics
By Poonam I Kushish
Q) Teacher: What is the role of Parliament in our Constitutional democracy?
A) Student: Parliament plays the vital...
Warns of troubled economy
UN ESCAP Forecast
By Shivaji Sarkar
India is growing and ought to grow after unplanned devastating lockdown of all economic and social activities. But the growth...
BJP agenda muddies waters
Lakshadweep Turmoil
By Insaf
Tiny Lakshadweep has hit national headlines, for all the wrong reasons. Misplaced ‘reforms’, as proposed by Administrator P K Patel in the...
Study impact, think ahead
Online Education
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
It is universally acknowledged that education is the key to development and higher growth. This means that an educated and socially...
Mistaken for healthcare
Right To Health
By Dr. S. Saraswathi
(Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi)
COVID-19 pandemic that has shattered life everywhere has raised many questions over health status of...
50 years after
Vijay Diwas 2021
By Dr. D.K. Giri
(Prof. International Politics, JIMMC)
Vijay Diwas marks the passage of 50 years since the historic day in 1971. This day,...
Cut i-t rates, stop psu sale
Budget Wish List
By Shivaji Sarkar
Yet another year of uncertainty begins with difficult finances, not so certain growth and perhaps some experimentation by the Union...