Catchphrase or realistic?

Corporate Social Responsibility By Dhurjati Mukherjee Recently, Adani Group Chairman, Gautam Adani hit the headlines after he committed Rs 60,000 crore ($7.7 billion) to social causes...

Towards crime mukt politics

Supremacy of SC By Dr S. Saraswathi (Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi) The Supreme Court has given a shock treatment to all political parties by passing certain...

Independent ec, really?

Election Omission By Poonam I Kaushish What is it about Election Commission and cleansing the political cesspool that scares our polity away? Specially when they love...

Honey, we are touchy!

Growing Intolerance By Poonam I Kaushish “Placing individual ideologies before national good is wrong,” asserted Prime Minister Modi last week. He is dead one. “National interest...

Consensus needed on basic issues

By Inder Jit (Released on 1 November 1983) Consensus has become a fashionable word in New Delhi these days. Everyone who is anyone now talks of...

The role of education

Preparing For An AI World By Rajiv Gupta Scientific discoveries, technology, and innovation have tended to disrupt the way in which humans think and act. This...

Decline of parliament

By Inder Jit (Released on 8 April, 1980) Parliament and its functioning is regrettably not receiving from its sovereign matters, the people, the close attention it...

Better or worsen conservation?

Forest Amendments By Dhurjati Mukherjee The controversial Forest (Conservation) Amendment Bill 2023 passed recently in the monsoon session of Parliament, has generated a huge debate and opposition...

Wake-up call for change

'Wrestling' With Me Too By Poonam I Kaushish India is at war with its wrestlers. That too Olympic medalists. For over 13 days wrestlers’ Sakshi Malik,...

I am a dalit, who are you?

Political Diary By Poonam I Kaushish The caste genie unleashed by our polity nearly three decades ago has bared its poisonous fangs once again in...

Aid peace process or setback?

Yasin Malik Gets Life Term By Insaf Will the life term handed to Kashmir separatist Yasin Malik ‘fuel more alienation and separatist feeling’ as the PAGDwarns...

The global response

Lord Ram Temple By Prof. (Dr.) D.K. Giri (Secretary General, Assn for Democratic Socialism) The consecration of Lord Rama in the newly built temple in Ayodhya was...

Will up remove crackdown?

People's Anger & Anguish By Insaf Three cheers Supreme Court. Its direction should, fingers crossed, stop Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath in his tracks. During...

Survivor not defector, new norm

Gaddi Aur Gaddari By Poonam I Kaushish A sense of de ja vu overwhelms. Brutally reinforced by the revolving door politics witnessed in the last fortnight...

Whose concern?

Lakshadweep Row By DrS.Saraswathi (Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi) Kerala Legislative Assembly unanimously passed a resolution expressing solidarity with the people of Lakshadweep against the Union Territory...

Varanasi pushes bjp agenda

Gyanvapi Mosque Row By Insaf Inflation be dammed, long live mandir-masjid hullabaloo! Uttar Pradesh keeps the flag flying for the BJP and its Hindutva agenda. The...

Poll body, pressure & independence

By Inder Jit (Released on 13 February 1990) India has once again proved its claim to be being the world’s biggest democracy. Nearly 300 million people...

Temp rise despite covid check

UNEP Report By Dhurjati Mukherjee The recently released ‘Emissions Gap Report’ by UNEP has found that though carbon dioxide emission globally is predicted to fall...

Poll, Congress & opposition unity

By Inder Jit (Released on 13 June 1989) The poll battle is hotting up. Everything is being said or done with an eye on winning supporters...

How safe are we?

India's Exports Slide Rajiv Gupta It has not been even a month since the horrific bomb blast at the Red Fort, but already it seems like...