Two-year slump predicted
India's $1 Trillion Loss
By Shivaji Sarkar
Heading towards a grave scenario, the Indian economy faces contraction in the current and possibly the next financial...
Playing with communal fire
By Inder Jit
(Released on 31 May 1983)
Communalism continues to grow and grow fast. Mr. Charan Singh’s timely alert against disaster has made thinking people...
Rbi framework inadequate?
Bank Frauds
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
Notwithstanding innumerable laws in the country, their implementation is a far cry. Though every government promises 'good governance', the state of...
Will public health system improve?
Women Security
By Dr. Oishee Mukherjee
Over the years non-violent forms of protest have become quite popular, not just in India but in many other countries....
Whose afraid of it?
Bulldozer Justiice
By Poonam I Kaushish
As temperatures rise, heat is searing through political India over it unprecedented Bulldozer Politics. Whereby this gigantic machine has assumed...
Not genuine progress
High GDP Growth
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
Some economists are concerned over whether India can return to 7 per cent GDP growth. The entire outlook of our...
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...
Law panel report outdated!
Sedition Law
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
The Law Commission of India’s 297threport ‘Usage of the Law of Sedition’, would come as a great disappointment to civil and...
Ias: I am sorry service
DNA OF Babudom
By Poonam I Kaushish
A 10-year old schoolboy feeling nauseas sticks his head out of moving bus hits an electric pole and dies...
The Dragon Blinks
Pragmatic engagement
By Dr. D.K. Giri
(Prof. International Politics, JMI)
The Chinese President Xi Jinping, expectedly, emerged stronger after the quinquennial Communist Party Congress last week. The...
Warns of troubled economy
UN ESCAP Forecast
By Shivaji Sarkar
India is growing and ought to grow after unplanned devastating lockdown of all economic and social activities. But the growth...
Reform or find alternative
Representative Democracy
By Dr S. Saraswathi
(Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi)
The Budget session of Parliament has commenced and 20 Opposition parties joined together to boycott the...
Of hope and fear
Pilgrims' Corridor
By Dr S Saraswathi
(Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi)
With mixed feelings of hope and fear, India is proceeding with the reopening of a passage...
Disaster waiting to strike
Death Ravages Uttarakhand
By Poonam I Kaushish
It was a tragedy waiting to strike, of anger and anguish, despair and desperation, morbidity and mortality. Words fail...
India key to recovery
World Economy
By Shivaji Sarkar
Even as India’s macroeconomic situation improves, it may not yet be the time to celebrate. The possible third wave is being...
Mahatma’s ideals forgotten?
India After Gandhi
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
Seven decades later after Mahatma Gandhi was killed, 30 January1948, the nation remembered the father of the nation yesterday. Many...
Right spend in question
Wasteful Nation
By Shivaji Sarkar
Periodic festive post-lockdown sales are not indicators of the economy booming for sustainable development as the slump may loom large. There...
Takeaways for India
Modi In Europe
By Dr. D.K. Giri
(Prof International Relations, JIMMC)
Prime Minister Narendra Modi dashed off to three countries in Europe from 2-4 May 2022. He...
Effective police state?
New I-T Rules
By Shivaji Sarkar
The economy is in shackles. Expecting it to thrive is a miracle. Somehow a supposedly rightist, nationalist government is using...
Slip hurts economy, sovereignty
SC Must Protect Rashtra
By Shivaji Sarkar
The Supreme Court ruling on the Eknath Shinde case has given rise to a discussion on a serious threat...