Citizens vs section 144
Winter Of Unrest
By Poonam I Kaushish
It’s a winter of unrest as city after city cutting across region and religion was spooked by protests and...
Money hai to power hai!
Market For Defectors
By Poonam I Kaushish
In these hot climes, political India is feeling the heat and how! One doesn’t know who is sleeping with...
Chindia, Russia & USA
European Dilemma
By Dr. D.K. Giri
(Secretary General, Association for Democratic Socialism)
I was talking intensely over a week with a European friend, who is also a...
Is Govt stifling freedom?
New Grammar of Sedition
By Poonam I Kaushish
“Off with her head, arguments later”, ordered the Queen in Alice in Wonderland. A term synonymous in modern...
Fallout for India
Dropping Iran N Deal
By Dr. D.K. Giri
Prof, International Relations, JMI
Donald Trump's decision to pull out of the Nuclear Deal with Iran would have serious...
Economic crisis looms
Policy Paralysis
By Shivaji Sarkar
Election time is show time. The minuses are swept under the carpet as rhetoric rules the roost. Manifestos are not necessarily...
Causes & remedies
Voter Apathy
By Dr. S. Saraswathi
(Former Director ICSSR, New Delhi)
Voter turnout in the four phases, where 2019 Lok Sabha elections were completed last week, is...
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...
Apathy sinking himalayan towns
Tehri, Mussoorie Too Crumbling
By Shivaji Sarkar
Heaven is literally falling to greed. It is just not Joshimath, but even Tehri Garhwal, Karnaprayag, and Mussoorie too...
Counter-working China?
PM's ASEAN Tour
By Dr D.K Giri
(Prof. of International Politics, JMI)
Prime Minister Narendra Modi undertook a visit to three important Members States of ASEAN last...
Time to profess empathy
BJP Covid Strategy
By Sagarneel Sinha
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s popularity has taken a hit due to the devastating second Covid-19 wave. The timing not too...
Need to safeguard rights
Threat to Institutions
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
Recently former Chief Justice of Delhi High Court Justice AP Shah regretted the fact that every institution designed to hold...
All in name of faith
Religious Gush
By Poonam I Kaushish
As the last vote is in ballot box in Bihar wherein beside caste, it was a battle royale between the...
India must be cautious
COP26 Concern
By Shivaji Sarkar
Even as the UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) proceeds, craze for electric vehicles go up, the world faces...
Centre-states action vital
Food & Fuel Inflation
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
The rising prices of food, fertilizer and fuels have reached centre stage with growth expectations becoming lower and monetary...
Act we must, not just observe
Mahatma Gandhi's Relevance
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
India grapples with injustice, violence, caste divisions, inter-religious rivalry et al, away from essential pluralism, away from democratic mores, away...
On paper, intent missing
COP Pledges
By Shivaji Sarkar
The climate summit COP26 is galore of promises as desertification the world over increases. The meet is less on concrete...
Absurd, govt must step in
90-Hour Work Week!
Two statements, one by Larsen & Toubro (L&T) Chairman SN Subramanyan saying there should be 90-hour weekly work, including on Sundays, for...
India’s albatross
The Nowhere People
By Poonam I Kaushish
Circa 1975: Hundreds of thousands fled South Vietnam after Saigon’s fall for fear of political persecution, the largest mass...
New vision in offng?
Draft Natl Ed Policy
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
There is much debate over the recently released new draft National Education Policy, which has come out with some...