What’s morality got to do with it?

Political Untouchable By Poonam I Kaushish Politics is the last refuge of scoundrels and when gold speaks all tongues are silent. Both Karnataka polls wherein Election...

Politics of oppurtunism

Market for Defectors By Poonam I Kaushish In the monsoon season it’s raining Party splitting. One doesn’t know who is sleeping with whom and who is...

Jobs scarce since 1947

Caste Back With Rigour By Shivaji Sarkar Caste is back with rigour in a supposed casteless society envisaged at Independence. Even Babasaheb Bhim Rao Ambedkar was...

Of victims & fake winners

Quota In Perpetuity By Poonam I Kaushish Indians are succors for tamasha and come election time trust our politicians to unleash their pet all-season freebies: reservation...

Sushasan wins, nitish back

Bihar For NDA, Bi Har For MGB  By Poonam I Kaushish At the end, it all feels good. A six week, two phase grueling election which...

Wb row gets murkier

Of 'Honour' & Politics By Insaf Sandeshkhali in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district is becoming a political hot potato. It’s not just the ‘honour’ of...

Whose life is it, anyway?

An Intolerable Toll? By Poonam I Kaushish Stuck records are tiresome. But when tragedy struck Capital’s New Delhi’s railway station Saturday night killing 18 people and...

Billions at stake in education

A Rating Surpasses IISc! By Shivaji Sarkar A ranking by the university accreditation system has raised critical questions about higher education in India and its ranking...

India must rethink strategy

Sino-US Trade War By Shivaji Sarkar The trade war between the US and China has a neutral victim in India. The escalation is likely to hurt...

Review, strict action vital

Mitigating Air Pollution By Dhurjati Mukherjee The Centre recently revised the target of reducing air pollution (PM concentrations) in cities from 20-30 percent by 2024 to...

Battle of ‘one-upmanship’

Presiding Officers' Meet By Insaf Deliberations at the All-India Presiding Officers’ Conference in Jaipur, Rajasthan has many an eyebrow raised, to put it mildly. Vice President...

The republic in bad shape

By Inder Jit (Released on 26 January 1982) Several questions, wild and not so wild, are being asked in New Delhi as India celebrates another Republic...

Its all about politics!

Bandh Nautanki By Poonam I Kaushish Politicians love a good bandh. Specially when general elections are months away to highlight Modi Raj's innumerable failures. Except the...

Govt must empathise, not ignore

Of Protests & Movements By Dhurjati Mukherjee The wrestlers’ protest April in the national capital with no sympathy being shown by the ruling dispensation is an...

Draconian, needs retink

New MV Act By Shivaji Sarkar The Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Bill 2019 is draconian. Worse, it is passed at a time when the automobile industry is...

Strategy for elections?

Union of Regional Parties By DrS.Saraswathi (Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi) “Regional parties will build up national parties. They alone can defeat the BJP”, said West Bengal...

Crime is now politics

Bahubali-Khadi Nexus By Poonam I Kaushish The sordid saga of dreaded gangster Vikas Dubey of Kanpur with over 60 cases to his name came to a...

Bihar repays Rs 63 cr a day

Victory Cheers, Debt Tears By Shivaji Sarkar The Bihar election delivered a clear mandate, but the celebrations mask a harder truth: the state is walking into...

Timely reminder on poll reforms

By Inder Jit (Released on 10 November 1987) Top Opposition leaders deserve a hand, thanks to a thoughtful initiative by the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh,...

India’s Moral Terrorist

Ideas more dangerous than guns By Poonam I Kaushish “Off with her head, arguments later”, ordered the Queen in Alice in Wonderland. A term synonymous in...