Lacks clarity & dialogue
Agnipath Scheme
By Dusmanta Kumar
As anti-Agnipath fury rises in the country, army veterans, observers and spokespersons on both sides, government as well as Opposition, are...
Constraints need attention
Vision@2047
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
It is understood that the Vision@2047 document, likely to be released by the government by year-end, will outline the structural changes and...
IS SC/ST immortal?
Quota In Perpetuity
By Poonam I Kaushish
Indians are succors for tamasha and trust our politicians to convert reservation into a big circus. Last week the...
Pvt hires mere 2.5%
Job Quota A Poll Myth!
By Shivaji Sarkar
In this dance of democracy, scarce resources are seemingly rambling up the election tempo. Religious slant on employment...
‘Day zero’ looms large
Water Crisis
By Dr.S.Saraswathi
(Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi)
A Division Bench of the Madras High Court directed all district collectors across Tamil Nadu to constitute committees...
Katil =neta, toh kya
Greed For Power
By Poonam I Kaushish
We hang petty thieves and elect criminals to public office. Three stories, one in Delhi which smacks of vindictive...
Weak may sink strong
Bank Mergers
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
It has been reported that the GDP has grown by only 5 per cent in the quarter ended June, which was...
Sjm treads Gandhian path
Job Creation Sans Govt
By Shivaji Sarkar
Acute unemployment, the biggest political challenge for the country, is sought to be resolved the Gandhian way by the...
Discourtesy to parliament
By Inder Jit
(Released on 28 Feb 1984)
Parliament is still not getting from Mrs Gandhi and the ruling Congress-I the respect and courtesy that is...
Powerless Ec, netas merry!
Code Of 'Misconduct'
By Poonam I Kaushish
Democracy is a conflict of interests masquerading as a contest of principles in this chatpata-dhoondhar election circus. An adage...
Raising the right questions?
Pulwama Tragedy
By Dr. D.K. Giri
(Prof. International Politics, JMI)
The Pulwama terrorist attack and the subsequent counter-operations by the army are the hot topics for debate...
Show the way, house
Parliament Session
By Poonam I Kaushish
Monsoon embraced the country in its squelchy soaking tentacles even as the first day of Parliament’s 19-day monsoon session got...
Why this diplomatic rush?
All Roads Lead To Delhi
By Dr. D. K. Giri
(Prof. International Politics, JIMMC)
In the last few weeks New Delhi has witnessed footfalls of a bevy...
Of slogans & genuine work
2019 Election Flurry
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
There is hectic activity among political parties and their leaders regarding the impending Lok Sabha elections 2019. On the one...
Are elections a farce?
2019 Alarming Trends
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
Elections are almost nearing completion in the world's largest democracy. But the developments leading to these elections point to...
No ticket for ‘criminals’?
4 Assembly Elections
By Insaf
Criminalisation of politics has come into sharp focus at an opportune time. With Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Telangana to go...
India and the world
A Peace Manifesto
By Dr. D.K. Giri
(Prof. NIIS Group of Institutions, Odisha)
The crying need of the world currently is peace and security, without which life...
Tackle terifying black hole
Naxals: Wake Up Call
By Poonam I Kaushish
It’s the season of banalities in politics. An outsider would be excused for thinking that India’s biggest crisis...
Low-fare vande new ‘shinkansen’
JICA Bumps To Bullet Train
By Shivaji Sarkar
The ambitious Mumbai-Ahmedabad Bullet Train project, once a symbol of India’s leap into advanced infrastructure, is now mired...
Connecting the dots
Pahalgam & Pakistan
By Prof (Dr) D.K. Giri
(Professor of Practice, NIIS Group of Institutions)
In a conference in Hyderabad on 24 and 25 April, I was...