Courts must restrain
Religious Places Row
By Insaf
Three cheers to Supreme Court! On Thursday last, it asked courts across the country to ‘stay off their hands’ from entertaining...
India braces ocean defence
US Extends Garcia To Lanka!
By Shivaji Sarkar
Amid global turmoil of the Ukraine and Israel wars, a new strategic front opens up in Sri Lanka...
How do we spell merit?
Quotas Circus
By Poonam I Kaushish
The quota circus is back on the political platter as our netagan continue with populist bravado and mindlessness. Doling out...
Kiski laathi aur kiski bhains?
CBI's Questionable Credibility
By Poonam I Kaushish
What is it about Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) that it is always in the eye of the storm?...
India-Russia careful on optics
Trump's Long Shadow
By Shivaji Sarkar
The currency crisis is bound to impact India growth. Indeed, a deep crisis is ahead. The falling rupee is likely...
45 collateral exits
Lateral Entry Politics
By Poonam I Kaushish
The reservation ration tamasha is back on the political platter as our netagan continue to conjure populist hullabaloo to...
Fantasy or eventual reality?
One Farm Market
By Shivaji Sarkar
If wishes were horses “one India one farm market” would have flown under then Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee...
India’s fresh initiatives
Transition in Afghanistan
By Dr DK Giri,
(Prof, International Politic, JIMMC)
Taliban has regained power in Afghanistan after 20 years. The motto of their battle for power...
Bjp’s machiavellian intrigues
President Rule In Puducherry
By Insaf
The BJP does it again, another Congress-led government bites the dust. This time in tiny Puducherry, due for Assembly elections...
Tripura latest to wield
By Insaf
UAPA Stick
BJP-ruled Tripura is the latest State to join others in brazenly using the draconian Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) to stifle citizens’...
What has morality got to do with it?
Black: Colour Of Polls
By Poonam I Kaushish
Circa 2014: Mayawati accuses ex-Rajya Sabha MP Akhilesh Das of offering her Rs 100 crore for a nomination....
A new way to combat corruption
By Inder Jit
(Released on 10 October 1989)
Corruption continues to grow — and the corrupt continue to flourish and prosper. Each succeeding day spotlights some...
India combating 3cs
Foreign Policy 2020
The year 2020 ended leaving a mixed bag of pain and promise for everyone and each sector of the state.
If we reflect...
Caste politics to the fore
Gujarat Make Over
By Insaf
It’s too early to say ‘All’s well, that ends well’ in BJP-ruled Gujarat. On Thursday last, a 24-member Cabinet was administered...
Age of andolan jeevi
Propaganda Politics
By Dr. S.Saraswathi
(Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi)
Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched an attack on “international conspirators” who were out to discredit India by...
Are their demands justfied?
Farmers' Fresh Stir
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
The conferment of Bharat Ratna to the late M.S. Swaminathan brings to the forefront the subject of farmers and their...
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...
Transparency via secrecy
Electoral Bonds
By Dr.S.Saraswathi
(Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi)
The Supreme Court has passed a very important interim order concerning funding of political parties for election. It...
Ecosystems approach vital
New Forest Policy
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
Forests have assumed critical value in recent times across the globe due to ever-increasing pollution and climate change. The earth's...
Much ado about nothing!
Modi-Jinping Meet
By Dr D.K. Giri
(Prof. International Politics, JMI)
Let us recall a famous quote on concept of time in politics, attributed to Harold Wilson, the...