Govt fiasco, heed advice

2nd Wave Crisis By Dr, Oishee Mukherjee The ongoing second wave of Covid-19 in the country, best described as a catastrophe, has brought into sharp focus...

Sshh…. About poll slush!

Election Funding By Poonam I Kaushish Money makes the clogged, polluted and corrupt political mare go around, and how! In the on-going Great Indian Dance of...

Playing with communal fire

By Inder Jit (Released on 31 May 1983) Communalism continues to grow and grow fast. Mr. Charan Singh’s timely alert against disaster has made thinking people...

Have benefits percolated down?

Modern Indian State By Dhurjati Mukherjee Every alternative day we hear talks of modern developments in social economic and scientific spheres without understanding or assessing its...

What is in a word?

Unparliamentary Or Gag? By Poonam I Kaushish What’s in word? Everything when it comes to our polity. We were treated to one such last week. Our...

Rule-based rbi for a start

Big GDP Slump By Shivaji Sarkar It’s a fall or new beginning. The nation is pondering over the minus 23.9 per cent GDP crash. The...

Recoil on politics, economy

Farm Bills' Repeal By Shivaji Sarkar Finally, the three farm bills are to be withdrawn as the nation goes to polls in Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and...

Hungry, jobless India

Super Inflation By Shivaji Sarkar Multiple taxes, unemployment, high 10.49 per cent wholesale price index (WPI) rise and severe income losses are thawing the nation amid...

Oath delay, poaching threat

Jharkhand Drama By Insaf High drama engulfs Jharkhand. The Champai Sorenled coalition government must win the trust vote on Monday, which looks certain, but not after...

Is j&k more vital than bharat mata?

Repeal Of Article 370 By Shivaji Sarkar Knots and crosses. Everybody seems to be busy playing this game when it comes to strife-torn Kashmir. The Centre...

Nepal PM Visit

Seeking to rebuild ties The recent visit of Nepalese Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba to India assumes unusually great significance in the current scenario. The...

Stem craches, save economy

Change Budget Prism By Shivaji Sarkar The stock market has wiped out Rs 8-10 lakh crores in a week since the Union Budget was presented...

Eyeballs on bjp, Cong batting

Election Test Match By Insaf The Election Commission has blown the whistle for the semi-final match between INDIA bloc which may have a bearing on the...

All together, but u ….?

Loktantra Bachao' By Poonam I Kaushish Unity in disunity or disunity in unity? Flummoxed? Certainly, as INDIA bloc rallied together in a Loktantra Bachao show of...

K’taka polls to douse or ignite?

India Sitting On A Tinderbox By Shivaji Sarkar As Karnataka goes to the polls, a number of economic issues are coming to the fore, price rise,...

SC hammer on states

Criminalisation of Politics By Insaf Three cheers to Supreme Court. State governments can no longer aid criminalisation of politics. “We deem it appropriate to direct that...

Psu-Pvt must work as one

Govt Exit Bid By Shivaji Sarkar It’s not easy to be in the driver’s seat on a bumpy road, which began long before the pandemic in...

Two antagonistic rights

Protest & Order By Dr. S. Saraswathi (Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi) “Democracy and dissent go hand in hand, but then demonstrations expressing dissent have to be...

SC helpless viz centre?

Farmers Protest By Insaf The Centre has left the Supreme Court exasperated over the farmers protests! On Thursday last, the top court gave a rap to...

“Not the centre’s chaprasi”

By Inder Jit (Released on 17 April 1984) The Governors and their role are in the news again. Late last month, Mrs. Gandhi made most people...