Govt must be responsive
India Vs Others
Open Forum
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
Notwithstanding a recent report indicating India shall emerge as the 4th largest economy by 2030 and the 3rd largest...
More acerbic the better!
Premuim On Slander
By Poonam I Kaushish
Democracy is a conflict of interests masquerading as a contest of principles in this theekha-dhoondhar election season. An adage...
Digital teaching fails
Private Education
Economic Highlights
By Shivaji Sarkar
India’s private school education is collapsing. Thousands of schools have closed down, many others are gasping and it may cost...
Covid-19 changes nothing
Bihar Elections
Round The States
By Insaf
Elections will be elections, COVID-19 or not. Crowded campaign rallies for Bihar’s first phase of polling on Wednesday...
Season of festivals
Reopening Drama
By Dr S. Saraswathi
(Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi)
West Bengal High Court has directed the State Government to treat all Durga Puja pandals as...
Changing, more freelance
Trending Work
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
Generating and providing employment is a big challenge for a country like India. The nature and type of work has...
Stingy, need more cash
New Stimulus Package
By Shivaji Sarkar
The unveiling of yet another stimulus package through increasing the purchasing power of the Central government employees is a welcome...
Maha impropriety
'Secular' Row
By Insaf
The word ‘secular’ has led to a storm in Maharashtra. New Delhi is being asked to sack Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari,...
Shocking case of negligence
Crime Against Women
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
In India, as per report of National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB) 2019 every 16 minutes, a woman is raped somewhere...
Two antagonistic rights
Protest & Order
By Dr. S. Saraswathi
(Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi)
“Democracy and dissent go hand in hand, but then demonstrations expressing dissent have to be...
I am a dalit, who are you?
Political Diary
By Poonam I Kaushish
The caste genie unleashed by our polity nearly three decades ago has bared its poisonous fangs once again in...
Rejuvenation will take longer
Economic Highlights
By Shivaji Sarkar
India is in dire crisis as economic recovery is slow; youth lose 41 lakh jobs during lockdown, employment uncertain, and...
Nitish banking on bjp
Bihar Elections
By Sagarneel Sinha
For the past 15 years, barring one-odd year, JD(U) President Nitish Kumar has been Bihar’s Chief Minister mostly with the support...
A friendly exercise
Labour Codes
By Dr. S. Saraswathi
(Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi)
Ten Central Trade Unions have announced a nationwide general strike on 26 November as a protest...
Need to safeguard rights
Threat to Institutions
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
Recently former Chief Justice of Delhi High Court Justice AP Shah regretted the fact that every institution designed to hold...
End culture of impunity
Dalit Nirbhaya
By Poonam I Kaushish
India is in conflict with its betis. If recalling the horrors of Nirbhaya, Kathua, Unnao, Muzzafarnagar, Telangana etc weren’t gut...
Appalling travesty of Justice!
Babri Verdict & Hathras Case
By Insaf
Outrage! That sums up the Babri Masjid demolition verdict and Hathras incident should evoke, if it hasn’t already, among...
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...
Parliament and the opposition
By Inder Jit
(Released on 15 January 1985)
All eyes are on the new Lok Sabha, which is due to assemble today for its first sitting....
Don’t solve problems
'Landmark' Farm Bills
By Shivaji Sarkar
The bulldozing of the two bills -- Agricultural Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Simplification) Bill and Farmers (Empowerment and...