Alteration has mixed impact
Women's Economic Empowerment
By Dr S. Saraswathi
(Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi)
UNDP Report released on the Women’s Day 2020 has come out with a startling finding...
21st century challenge
World Youth Skills Day
By Dr. S Saraswathi
(Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi)
Celebrating the World Youth Skills Day, we cannot but feel ashamed that on the...
Mountain out of molehill
Wakf Act
By Poonam I Kaushish
Phew! As Delhi simmers in rising heat wave, it is better than political stewing on the contentious Mussalman Wakf (Repeal)...
Policy stimuli wished for
Gloomy 2019
By Shivaji Sarkar
A year passes with some gloom and the New Year enters with hope and aspirations. 2019 has had both good as...
Whither Indian Parliamentary Democracy?
By Inder Jit
(Released on 13 September 1966)
Parliament’s monsoon session has made all right-thinking people sit up and ask: whither our young democracy? Undoubtedly, the...
US wants India cut tariff
Modi-Trump on New Turf
By Shivaji Sarkar
The world is galvanised, shaken, in a trance with Donald Trump’s return to the US presidency. There is hope,...
Nation of the rich: Oxfam
Govt Promises & Reality
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
Speeches of Union ministers, specially at the top, the Prime Minister, are prepared by highly qualified people and many...
Belling the illegal cat
'India's "Boat People"
By Poonam I Kaushish
In the summer of 1975, hundreds of thousands fled South Vietnam after Saigon’s fall for fear of political persecution....
What’s morality got to do with it?
Political Untouchable
By Poonam I Kaushish
Politics is the last refuge of scoundrels and when gold speaks all tongues are silent. Both Karnataka polls wherein Election...
Requires $80 billion funding
Malaria Comeback
By Shivaji Sarkar
Dreaded malaria can make a comeback amid global warming-heavy rains and needs three times more allocations a year. India suffers a...
Towards strategic ties
EU-Central Asia
By Bakhtiyor Mustafayev
(Dy Director, Institute for Strategic & Regional Studies, Uzbekistan)
Samarkand hosted the first-ever high-level meeting between the European Union and five countries...
New govt’s priorities
Beyond Borders
By Dr D.K. Giri
(Prof. International Politics, JMI)
After two months of mind and body-wrenching electioneering in the biggest democracy in the world, the results...
India and its image abroad
By Inder Jit
India’s image in the West shines brighter than ever before. Goodwill for the country is clearly on the upswing. This is the...
Trees are not dispensable
Delhi Exemplar
By Proloy Bagchi
When things reach an edge, Delhi's civil society comes together to rally and protest for public causes. In 2011, the rampant...
End to bitter campiagning
Rajasthan Polling
By Insaf
Rajasthan goes to the polls today. The campaigning has been rough and tough and while pollsters would give thumbs up to ruling...
Strategy for elections?
Union of Regional Parties
By DrS.Saraswathi
(Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi)
“Regional parties will build up national parties. They alone can defeat the BJP”, said West Bengal...
Are olicy makers concerned?
Justice & Indian Politics
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
All political parties, not just in India but the world over, talk of justice, interpreting it in various ways....
Bolstering the partnership
India-France Dialogues
By (Prof.) Dr. D.K. Giri
(Secretary General, Assn for Democratic Socialism)
External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar met Anne-Marie Descotes, Secretary General of the French Ministry...
Rohingya Influx
Border states ‘be vigilant’
By Insaf
The Centre’s anxiety over the influx of Rohingyas is growing. Its focus on five eastern States has become sharper, and...
Examining nda govt
State Of The Poor
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
Notwithstanding the BJP-led NDA government claiming various achievements, a detailed analysis reveals that development has primarily benefited the upper...