Progress with less tax burden

Year of New Politics By Shivaji Sarkar The New Year, 2018, is a week old. It raises aspirations and there is hope all around. The first...

Are times changing?

Her "Modern" Story By Poonam I Kaushish Last week India was agog over one of its favourite topics: Indian women. A subject which are netagan feel...

Claims and Poll Prospects

Land 'Grab', 'Acquisition' By Inder Jit (Released on 25 September 1979) Predictably if prematurely, the poll guessing game is on again. Anyone who even looks like having...

Creation & quality vital

Unemployment Challenges By Dhurjati Mukherjee Providing jobs is indeed a big change for a populous country like India with a huge number entering the labour force...

‘Lawless’ UP

Yogi’s edict face changer? By Insaf Changing the face of “lawless” Uttar Pradesh is asking for the moon, but for Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath perhaps not....

Punjab, wb, Kerala add doubt

India bloc unity By Insaf Developments in Punjab are putting a big question mark on the bonhomie projected by INDIA bloc for 2024. The Congress particularly...

Not who, but what 

Kamandal = Mandal 2.0  By Poonam I Kaushish Circa 1901: “I don’t believe in caste in the modern sense as it connotes distinction in status and...

Budget After Poll

Shift to agro-rural economy By Shivaji Sarkar Gujarat elections are likely to change the focus of Indian economic policies. The last full Budget of the...

Delay cost huge, rework: Cag

Clean Ganga Project By Shivaji Sarkar "The Ganga cleaning project has cost the nation Rs 7304 crore", notes the National Green Tribunal (NGT) in its observations...

The misguided students?

Of Streets & Classrooms By Proloy Bagchi It appears from what the newspapers say or what the media shows that the entire country has become secular...

Loathsome but unavoidable

Personal Poll Attacks By Inder Jit (Released on 5 October 1999) Unlike top leaders of the BJP, the Congress and other parties, I am not upset by...

Hacking Blows at the System

By Inder Jit (Released on 17 January 1984) Words. Words. And still more words. Hardly a day has passed during the past fortnight and more when...

Atlernative governance plan?

Congress Introspection By Dhurjati Mukherjee The recently concluded Chintan Shivir of the Congress at its Udaipur Declaration has given a call for ‘Bharat Jodo’ (United India)...

Pol, Eco challenges

Pakistan at a Crossroads By Piotr Opaliñski (Former Polish Ambassador to Pak) (Mem, Centre for Intl Relations) Located at the crossroads of South Asia, Central Asia and the...

National govt the remedy

Economic Letdown By Shivaji Sarkar It is an ominous year now. Panic decisions and maniac actions of keeping people off work has done wonders of squeezing...

Mixing domestic, foreign policy!

Trudeau Visit By Dr D.K. Giri (Prof. International Politics, JMI) Many political observers, media persons and diplomats in both India and Canada dubbed Justin Trudeau's week-long visit...

Holy conversions!

Mitti, Kajal & Darshan By Poonam I Kaushish A 16-year-old Faridabad girl is lured by Hussain in 2023. He takes her to Delhi’s Nizamuddin Dargah and...

CEA stokes hope

Asian Gloom By Shivaji Sarkar After a long time Chief Economic Advisor Surbramanian Krishnamurthy has given a boost to the confidence of the nation with his...

Where is society heading?

Violent Sense Vs Moral Sensibility By Poonam I Kaushish Violence is the rhetoric of the times. Pick any newspaper. Any day. Splashes of social schism gore...

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...