Gender Injustice:
Attitudinal Change Imperative
By Dr. Oishee Mukherjee
The triple talaq judgment has reinforced strength among women activists yet personal laws are against the fairer sex as...
Conspiracy undermines parliament
By Inder Jit
(Released on 18 September 1990)
Parliament’s recently-concluded monsoon session has not received the critical attention it deserves. The functioning of the Lok Sabha...
Woh mar gaya, toh?
My Careless India
By Poonam I Kaushish
Circa 2 June, Aligarh UP: A two-and-a-half year old girl’s maggots infested mutilated body is found in a garbage...
Hindutva versus OBC
UP Battlelines
By Insaf
Battlelines are getting drawn and redrawn in five States going to the polls, with Uttar Pradesh getting sharp focus at the national...
Neta: Don’t cast vote, vote caste
Quota In Perpetuity
By Poonam I Kaushish
With elections round the corner, quotas and queues are back on the political platter as the BJP-led NDA Government...
Scrap it, make farmer king
Farming Trade Ordinance
By Shivaji Sarkar
Indian agriculture is a complex mix. It has myriad problems and the solutions suggested are often not practical. Interestingly,...
Rejuvenation will take longer
Economic Highlights
By Shivaji Sarkar
India is in dire crisis as economic recovery is slow; youth lose 41 lakh jobs during lockdown, employment uncertain, and...
J&K strategy needs rethink
Civilian Killings
By Insaf
North block should be in a bind viz its strategy on Kashmir. Civilian killings, migrant workers leaving the Valley, an exodus of...
Demand, pvt investment low
Economic Recovery
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
Economists are debating economic recovery, but the scenario is not all that encouraging as there are concerns about toughening conditions in...
‘Veto’ on outsider
Regionalism To Fore
By Poonam I Kaushish
Pre 1947 India resounded to “throw out the British”. Sprinkled with nationalism, all pledged to make India united and...
Dialogue on economy vital
Corona Panic
By Shivaji Sarkar
The last quarter figures of 2019-20 fiscal may have reasons to cause worry. An uninteresting Central budget, corona virus, plummeting stock...
Economy needs free run
Cash & Banks
By Shivaji Sarkar
Fetish of any kind is bad. Of late, the society has started a cleaning operation to the extent that it...
Prioritise small, young farmers
Agricultural Transformation
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
There is some good news coming from the farm sector. The lockdown hasn’t much affected agriculture because of normal rabi crop...
Appalling travesty of Justice!
Babri Verdict & Hathras Case
By Insaf
Outrage! That sums up the Babri Masjid demolition verdict and Hathras incident should evoke, if it hasn’t already, among...
Collusion= bank swindles
PSBs Privatising = Predators
By Shivaji Sarkar
Is privatization of public sector banks (PSB) the panacea? A strong lobby seems to propagate it and it includes...
Govt startup schemes aren’t personal properties of officers and MLAs
Editor,
Days ago, the honourable chief minister, while appreciating and applauding, shared on his social media handle about an Adi youth who has taken up...
Job cuts slow growth
Global Inflation Sticky
By Shivaji Sarkar
The typical Indian scenario is hit by inflation, global job cuts, bank crisis, agitated farmers and passing the Union Budget...
More than the house of lords
By Inder Jit
(Released on 22 Nov. 1983)
It is time the Rajya Sabha played the specific role specifically envisaged for it by the founding fathers...
Neither a trumpet, nor rubber stamp
By Inder Jit
(Released on 28 February 1989)
The President, Mr. R. Venkataraman, has let down the Constitution,the two Houses of Parliament and the country in...
Rinkmanship in kashmir
By Inder Jit
(Released on 29 July 1980)
Storm clouds gathering over Kashmir over the past few months seem to have largely blown over. Sheikh Abdullah...