Progress with less tax burden
Year of New Politics
By Shivaji Sarkar
The New Year, 2018, is a week old. It raises aspirations and there is hope all around. The first...
Are times changing?
Her "Modern" Story
By Poonam I Kaushish
Last week India was agog over one of its favourite topics: Indian women. A subject which are netagan feel...
Claims and Poll Prospects
Land 'Grab', 'Acquisition'
By Inder Jit
(Released on 25 September 1979)
Predictably if prematurely, the poll guessing game is on again. Anyone who even looks like having...
Creation & quality vital
Unemployment Challenges
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
Providing jobs is indeed a big change for a populous country like India with a huge number entering the labour force...
‘Lawless’ UP
Yogi’s edict face changer?
By Insaf
Changing the face of “lawless” Uttar Pradesh is asking for the moon, but for Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath perhaps not....
Punjab, wb, Kerala add doubt
India bloc unity
By Insaf
Developments in Punjab are putting a big question mark on the bonhomie projected by INDIA bloc for 2024. The Congress particularly...
Not who, but what
Kamandal = Mandal 2.0
By Poonam I Kaushish
Circa 1901: “I don’t believe in caste in the modern sense as it connotes distinction in status and...
Budget After Poll
Shift to agro-rural economy
By Shivaji Sarkar
Gujarat elections are likely to change the focus of Indian economic policies. The last full Budget of the...
Delay cost huge, rework: Cag
Clean Ganga Project
By Shivaji Sarkar
"The Ganga cleaning project has cost the nation Rs 7304 crore", notes the National Green Tribunal (NGT) in its observations...
The misguided students?
Of Streets & Classrooms
By Proloy Bagchi
It appears from what the newspapers say or what the media shows that the entire country has become secular...
Loathsome but unavoidable
Personal Poll Attacks
By Inder Jit
(Released on 5 October 1999)
Unlike top leaders of the BJP, the Congress and other parties, I am not upset by...
Hacking Blows at the System
By Inder Jit
(Released on 17 January 1984)
Words. Words. And still more words. Hardly a day has passed during the past fortnight and more when...
Atlernative governance plan?
Congress Introspection
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
The recently concluded Chintan Shivir of the Congress at its Udaipur Declaration has given a call for ‘Bharat Jodo’ (United India)...
Pol, Eco challenges
Pakistan at a Crossroads
By Piotr Opaliñski
(Former Polish Ambassador to Pak)
(Mem, Centre for Intl Relations)
Located at the crossroads of South Asia, Central Asia and the...
National govt the remedy
Economic Letdown
By Shivaji Sarkar
It is an ominous year now. Panic decisions and maniac actions of keeping people off work has done wonders of squeezing...
Mixing domestic, foreign policy!
Trudeau Visit
By Dr D.K. Giri
(Prof. International Politics, JMI)
Many political observers, media persons and diplomats in both India and Canada dubbed Justin Trudeau's week-long visit...
Holy conversions!
Mitti, Kajal & Darshan
By Poonam I Kaushish
A 16-year-old Faridabad girl is lured by Hussain in 2023. He takes her to Delhi’s Nizamuddin Dargah and...
CEA stokes hope
Asian Gloom
By Shivaji Sarkar
After a long time Chief Economic Advisor Surbramanian Krishnamurthy has given a boost to the confidence of the nation with his...
Where is society heading?
Violent Sense Vs Moral Sensibility
By Poonam I Kaushish
Violence is the rhetoric of the times. Pick any newspaper. Any day. Splashes of social schism gore...
TN triggers nda-India row
Sanatan Dharma
By Insaf
DMK’s minister and Chief Minister Stalin’s son Udhayanidhi has raised a big political storm. By declaring that Sanatan Dharma is against equality...