Yogi acts, Uddhav dithers
Silencing Loudspeakers
By Insaf
There is to be no blaring noise in Uttar Pradesh. Following Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s orders to remove loudspeakers from religious sites...
Karnataka drama over
Kissa Kursi Ka
By Insaf
Curtains have finally come down in the long-drawn ‘kissa kursi ka’ nauseating drama in Karnataka. BS Yediyuruppa (earlier Yedyurappa) took...
Prime Minister & The Opposition
By Inder Jit
(Released on 4 October 1983)
Speculation about the Opposition parties and their third conclave in Srinagar encourages me to share with readers a...
Ranchi sets alarm bells ringing
MGNREGA Scam
By Insaf
Crooked running of MGNREGA in Jharkhand may just be tip of the iceberg. Its Rural Development Dept has indulged in mega corruption...
Netas police vs janata’s police
Policewala Goonda
Last week tore to tatters the slogan: With you, for you, always. When another free-for-all epidemic of mob violence was unleashed across the...
Ouch! Govt is touchy
Muzzling Dissent
By Poonam I Kaushish
As India is busy taking shots at recovery against Covid 19, lost in euphoria of taming the virus fiend is...
High costs, doubtful probity
UP Elections
By Shivaji Sarkar
The extravaganza of expenses in Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections is nobody’s guess. The sum is supposed to be whopping. This election,...
Rise in modern day slavery
UN Foreboding
By Shivaji Sarkar
The United Nations has raised the red flag of growing modern slavery, suppression of information and hitting sustainable development goals...
Index & reality
Hunger in India
By Dr.S.Saraswathi
(Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi)
It is not in India’s fortune to remain happy with its achievements for any long time as...
Centre, states wake up late
Lockdown & Migrant Workers
By Insaf
Too little and maybe too late! An assessment of the Centre’s lockdown and Rs 1,70,000-crore relief package for the urban...
Adverse impact for India
Melting Glaciers
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
The United Nations has declared 2025 as the ‘International Year of Glacier Preservation’, given the critical problem of glacier melting. To...
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...
Understanding the neighbour
Indo-Pak Conflict
By Dr DK Giri
The Indian sub-continent is grossly gripped with conflicts between India and Pakistan, intensified by war-cry emitting from both nations. Under...
‘Developed’ is problematic!
Trump's Big Punch
By Shivaji Sarkar
India is being continuously hit by the US President Donald Trump’s withdrawal of Generalised system of preferences (GSP) on 5,111...
TN triggers nda-India row
Sanatan Dharma
By Insaf
DMK’s minister and Chief Minister Stalin’s son Udhayanidhi has raised a big political storm. By declaring that Sanatan Dharma is against equality...
Bureau of connivance
CBI: His Master's Voice
By Poonam I Kaushish
With the world in a tailspin thanks to US-Israel war against Iran with Middle East caught in the...
Sshh…. About poll slush!
Election Funding
By Poonam I Kaushish
Money makes the clogged, polluted and corrupt political mare go around, and how! In the on-going Great Indian Dance of...
Fixing history or driving wedge?
Sambhal Shahi Masjid Row
By Poonam I Kaushish
It never ceases to surprise how our polity keeps sinking into the marshy cesspool of bloodied religious politicking....
Ecosystems approach vital
New Forest Policy
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
Forests have assumed critical value in recent times across the globe due to ever-increasing pollution and climate change. The earth's...
Dignity of Lok Sabha is upheld
By Inder Jit
(Released 16 April 1985)
The Lok Sabha successfully warded off last Wednesday a major assault on its dignity. Full marks for this must...