Additional funds critical
NEP & Budget
The National Education Policy (NEP) continues to solicit much debate and educationists will be eagerly looking forward to the Budget today, in...
Throttling democractic freedom?
Warning Signals
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
In recent days there have been voices of protest from a cross section of society against the policies of the present...
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...
India junks Rs 18 trn
The Great Scrap Vehicle
By Shivaji Sarkar
India is a powerful economy. It is now officially $4 trillion but in truth, it is far more potent....
Large funds can’t save globe
Climate Resilience
By Shivaji Sarkar
Amid the rising disaster risk threats to infrastructure, the world plans massive investments of $94 trillion for disaster resilience in the...
Delhi’s ugly power battle
Politicians Vs Bureaucrats
By Insaf
The power battle in Delhi has crossed all limits. The alleged assault on Chief Secretary Anshu Prakash last week by two...
From ‘us’ to ‘them’
Hijab Controversy
By Poonam I Kaushish
What’s in a dress? Nothing, it’s a form of clothing, but the maelstrom over the innocuous Muslim hijab (headscarf) banned...
Not ultimate answer
Aarogya Setu
By Dr S. Saraswathi
(Former Director ICSSR, New Delhi)
The Union Home Ministry has made Aarogya Setu (Bridge to Health) app, a contact tracing app,...
State satraps seek to lead
BJP vs Rest
By Insaf
State satraps are vying with each other to lead battle 2019. Most of them are Delhi-bound, to ensure they are the...
Rajasthan Bills
Penchant for controversies?
By Insaf
BJP-ruled Rajasthan appears to have a penchant for courting controversies. Days after Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje’s government had to blink and...
Ignites pvt vs public debate
AI Crash Jolts Global Aviation
By Shivaji Sarkar
In a single fiery instant over Ahmedabad, the confidence in civil aviation—India’s and the world’s—came crashing down with...
Gujarat’s error of remission?
Convicts Set Free
By Insaf
BJP government’s action in Gujarat is outrageous, to put it mildly. The remission of life imprisonment sentences for 11 men convicted...
Economic costs be damned!
My Subsidy, Your Revadi
By Poonam I Kaushish
It is raining freebies wherein sound economic sense has been surrendered to political gamesmanship. Reckless subsidies are being...
Assessing India’s position
Israel & The World
By Prof. (Dr.) D.K. Giri
(Secretary General, Assn for Democratic Socialism)
The Israel-Palestine war is raging ghoulishly with horrendous consequences. The world is...
Fixing history or driving wedge?
Sambhal Shahi Masjid Row
By Poonam I Kaushish
It never ceases to surprise how our polity keeps sinking into the marshy cesspool of bloodied religious politicking....
Money hai to power hai!
Era Of Aya Ram Gaya Ram
By Poonam I Kaushish
When gold speaks all tongues are silent. This adage was brutally reinforced by the revolving door...
Despair to dignified opening
Migration Commission
By Dr. Saraswathi
(Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi)
The current migrant workers crisis triggered as a by-product of COVID-19 pandemic has exposed many problems in...
Drawing New Delhi in
Greek PM in India
By Prof. (Dr.) D.K. Giri
(Secretary General, Assn for Democratic Socialism)
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis recent visit to New Delhi was significant...
Decline of Parliament
By Inder Jit
(Released on April 8, 1980)
Parliament and its functioning is regrettably not receiving from its sovereign masters, the people, the close attention it...
A dangerous game!
Politics of Labelling
By Dr. S. Saraswathi
(Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi)
A primary lesson for all political speakers is to avoid controversial terms particularly to malign...