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...