Rural sector thrust missing
Budget priorities
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
The Budget, as usual, showed a distinct favour for the middle and rich sections as it’s the last one before the...
Bjp juggernaut braked
Heartland Gives Heartache
By Poonam I Kaushish
Beware the Ides of March. This adage has come to sting the BJP post its electoral defeat in UP...
Karmic pay back?
Chidambaram Arrest
By Poonam I Kaushish
The chickens have come home to roost and you reap what you sow. Two maxims which enunciate the steamy saga...
India’s “Boat People”
Gets Tough On Rohingya Migrants
By Poonam I Kaushish
In the summer of 1975, hundreds of thousands of people fled South Vietnam after the fall of...
Hypocrisy is the new black
Amar Prem To Kati Patang
By Poonam I Kaushish
It’s the silly political season where hypocrisy is the new black. Forget ideology and corruption stigma. Till...
Hurried, but ineffective?
Welfare Programmes
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
The process of governance over the years, via discussions and debates, has undergone a change in India. As is evident, there...
Techniques need change
Dryland Farming
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
Notwithstanding that COP26 was largely seen as disappointing, the UN in one of its statement said ‘significant progress’ was made in...
Dress rehersal for 2019
Karnataka Election
By Dr S.Saraswathi
(Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi)
The entire nation's political attention is concentrated on the election in Karnataka as if it will decide...
Constitutionally just not done!
From Your Lordship to Jan Sevak
By Poonam I Kaushish
Now days when you see someone holding his nose you don’t know whether it’s pollution or...
Break in for big two
Tamil Nadu Gamble
By Insaf
Will national parties get space this 2019 election in Tamil Nadu is a million dollar question after ballot boxes were...
Blend of realism & restraint
Vajpayee's Foreign Policy
By Dr. D. K. Giri
(Prof. International Politics, JMI)
Atal Bihari Vajpayee left deep footprints on Indian politics in the six decades of his...
Are poor better off?
Politics of Poverty
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
Lok Sabha elections announced, all political parties are gearing up to woo the electoral vote bank, specially the poor and...
New govt must reflect
Right To Health
By Dr. Oishee Mukherjee
Health care comes into sharp focus this General election. While the BJP already has its ambitious Ayushman Bharat scheme...
Need of the hour
India-NATO Tie Up
By Dr. D.K. Giri
(Prof. International Relations, JIMMC)
Within a week of the high summit of Quad, US Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin was...
Hopeful, firms lukewarm
Modi Taps US Corp
By Shivaji Sarkar
The visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the US has tried to kindle hopes in an economy that...
Wanted: Opposition that works
By Inder Jit
(Released on 23 June 1981)
The Opposition has none but itself to blame for coming to grief once again. It seems to have...
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...
Scrap it, make farmer king
Farming Trade Ordinance
By Shivaji Sarkar
Indian agriculture is a complex mix. It has myriad problems and the solutions suggested are often not practical. Interestingly,...
Un warns of upheaval
India's HDI Rank Loss
By Shivaji Sarkar
A rank loss on the UN Human Development Index is a grave indicator of India’s overall social and economic...
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...