Reorienting policies vital

Next Poll Planning By Dhurjati Mukherjee The NDA has about five months to go before the Lok Sabha elections and apart from improving governance, the vote...

Parliament and the opposition

By Inder Jit (Released on 15 January 1985) All eyes are on the new Lok Sabha, which is due to assemble today for its first sitting....

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...

Will it win popular support?

BJP's Corruption Mantra The first phase of polling over,it’s getting increasingly interesting to watch how far BJP and its star campaigner Prime Minister Modi will...

End of social justice?

BJP's Politics By Sagarneel Sinha The Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party government has completed eight years in power and amidst this the country has seen changes...

Right prices critical

Farm Travails & WTO By Shivaji Sarkar The long night is over. The farmers call off their over year-long stir and return home as the Centre...

Karnataka triggers debate

Hate Speech Bill By Insaf The Karnataka Hate Speech and Hate Crimes (Prevention) Bill, 2025 has sparked off a fiery debate. Having got the nod from the Siddaramaiah...

States must aid centre

The MSP Demand By Dr. S.S Chhina (Senior Fellow, Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi) Albeit the longest-ever protest from the farming community, especially in Punjab and...

Govt support, tech input vital

Boosting Farm Income By Dhurjati Mukherjee Two recent developments in the agricultural sector merit attention. The first is the constitution of the long-awaited committee to look...

Holier than thou conversions!

Love Jihad By Poonam I Kaushish India is once again caught up in a battle royale between the Gods, in a new age avatar: Love...

Focus on rural India vital

Education Neglect By Dhurjati Mukherjee The New Year calls for reversing the neglect in the education sector. Policies are framed with high sounding targets without a...

RBI: Worst Days Over, Yet

Inflation, private banks worrisome By Shivaji Sarkar The slowdown has bottomed out, asserts RBI. Indeed, a positive indicator in the last over a year whereby India’s...

Asserting Africa’s aspirations

G-20 in Johannesburg By Dr. D.K. Giri (Prof of Practice, NIIS Group of Institutions) The 20th G-20 meeting in the South African capital was marked by quite...

A sorry state of affairs!

Municipal Financing By Dhurjati Mukherjee The Reserve Bank of India’s recent release of the annual ‘Report on Municipal Finance’ is undoubtedly a good yardstick to assess...

Dent in ‘jai kisan’?

Capital Anarchy By Poonam I Kaushish Nothing ever good comes out of violence. This lexicon comes to mind as the Capital witnessed unprecedented anarchy leaving it...

BJP battles for allies

2019: War of Positions By Poonam I Kaushish Italian Marxist, Antonio Gramsci's 'War of Positions' and 'War of Manoeuvres' indicate two different phases in a power...

National hall of fame or shame

74 'Independent' Years By Poonam I Kaushish “The naïve notion that we can preserve freedom by exuding goodwill is not only silly, but dangerous,” wrote former...

Caste, class bias must end

Dalit Activism By Dhurjati Mukherjee There is lot of news in the media concerning the Dalits, who in recent months have asserted their right to a...

Battle over gods

Religious Conversions By Poonam I Kaushish Religion is turning out to be a big vote spinner, as our political undatas busily churn the conversion cauldron underscoring...

Welfare vital, no to corruption  

Karnataka Takeaways By Dhurjati Mukherjee The Congress has won a victory in Karnataka with an absolute majority, unexpected by most political pundits. The sorry state of...