New Delhi reclibrates strategy
Sri Lanka Elections
By Dr. D.K. Giri
(Prof. International Politics, JMI)
The island state Sri Lanka elected its 7th President last Saturday. The clear and decisive winner...
Elusive peace?
Kashmir Déjà vu
By Poonam I Kaushish
The travails of picturesque Kashmir continue. Last fortnight’s macabre killing of 11 members of non-Kashmiris, Hindu-Sikh minority communities and...
New Delhi hitting the wrong targets
India's Security
By Dr. D. K. Giri
(Prof, International Politics, JMI)
Note the news that authorities in north-eastern China destroyed about 30,000 world maps showing Arunachal Pradesh...
Focus on small business vital
'Signs of Recovery'
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
There are signs of recovery on the industrial front, according to a section of experts. If demand from new segments...
Is it Secular or Communal?
State Control of Temples
By S. Saraswathi
(Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi)
A landmark judgement of the Supreme Court restoring the ceremonial rights of the ex-royals of...
Will finance panel bridge gap?
Regional Imbalance
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
The BJP’s victory in three states appears to suggest the promise of development via ‘double engine’ sarkar has takers. And the...
India heads for slowdown?
Sensex Records Worst Fall
By Shivaji Sarkar
The economy is slowing down! Indications include creeping severe sourness at the stock market, Rs 26 lakh crore loss...
Economy back on voters’ mind
Changing Poll Dynamics
The Haryana and Maharashtra election results’ speak. The Congress can do without Gandhis, regional parties have their sheen and dominant castes have...
Citizens’ common cause
By Inder Jit
(Released on September 4, 1979)
Revulsion against the current state of politics in the country continues to snowball. Never before has greater contempt...
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...
Enough of Double Talk and Deception
Legitimizing Corruption
By Inder Jit
(Released on 30 September 1996)
Politics in New Delhi has increasingly become a conscious and continuous exercise in rank hypocrisy, double talk...
One nation, one poll, anyone?
Perpetual Dance Of Democracy
By Poonam I Kaushish
Its’ party time folks as India readies for its greatest nautanki of democracy: General elections April-May. Amidst the...
Jo jeeta woh sikander!
Crime Pays In Politics
By Poonam I Kaushish
Taint is the flavour of the new high stakes poll season in Karnataka. The more criminal and immoral,...
Katil=Neta, Toh Kya?
Stigma=Women
By Poonam I Kaushish
Plato believed that democratic “life has neither law nor order.” And he was dead right. In today’s India where jiske lathi...
Towards a rapprochement?
Jaishankar In Pakistan
By Prof. (Dr.) D.K. Giri
(Secy Gen, Assn for Democratic Socialism)
External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar was in Pakistan early this week. Observers both...
From industry to agriculture
Budget Shift
By Shivaji Sarkar
Is it the beginning of a change in the focus of the Union Budget ? The 2018-19 Budget seems to mark...
Neighbours key to dream
Rupee For Global Leap
By Shivaji Sarkar
The Rupee is on at least an 11-year-journey in its quest for quasi international status, even as it slides...
Of rising jobs & quality
Holistic Growth
By Shivaji Sarkar
At last the jobs are growing, says the labour bureau employment latest survey. This by 29 per cent in April-June quarter....
Halt minority vilification
Hate Speeches
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
Recent developments in the country have generated a lot of controversy abroad and dented India’s secular credentials. A prominent section within...
Building the welfare state!
G-20 In India
Dr. D.K. Giri
(Secretary General, Assn for Democratic Socialism)
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be visiting Japan, Papua New Guinea and Australia from May...