Price tag on votes
Yutan Sunya
Youth 1: Is baar vote karne ke liye kitna paisa mila tha?
Youth 2: Hum logon ko 5000 mila hai.
Youth 3: Dhet, yeh toh...
Will set off more social chaos?
Unchecked Poverty & Inequality
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
The recent report of UNDESA World Social Report 2020 titled ‘Inequality In a Rapidly Changing World’ paints a gloomy...
Growth lower, infaltion high
RBI MPC Estimate
By Shivaji Sarkar
The feel good factor may be impacted as the Reserve Bank of India estimates the growth to remain lower, inflation...
India’s plurality at stake?
Eroding Democratic Rights
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
Lately reports by independent and reputed agencies batting for democracy and civil rights have downgraded India’s status claiming it is...
The road ahead
J&K Message
By Poonam I Kaushish
The winner takes it all! Be it salubrious J&K or burly Haryana. As no-stops-barred battles gives way to elected Governments...
Doors open for India
US Shift in W. Asia
By Shivaji Sarkar
Rapid developments appear to be reshaping India’s regional landscape, hinting at a subtle yet significant realignment of strategic...
Alarm, not penalty
Garbage Tax
By Dr.S.Saraswathi
(Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi)
Greater Chennai Corporation announced Garbage Tax a few days back to the surprise of all residents and gave...
Aim optics, but blurred
MEPs Valley Visit
By Sagarneel Sinha
It has been almost close to three months that normalcy has disappeared from the Kashmir Valley — since the...
Dark carnival of democracy
Bulldozer Governance
By Poonam I Kaushish
Of the various forms of punishment, an eye for an eye is the most primal. In India it connotates bulldozer...
India wins friends — and credibility
By Inder Jit
(Released on 12 November 1985)
India has won several new friends among the top world leaders and greater credibility and influence, thanks to...
India Disappoints on Gulf Crisis
By Inder Jit
(Released on 1 September 1990)
Free India’s foreign policy and its conduct has suffered from one grave failing over the years. Its Foreign...
Abolishing Triple Talaq
Boost to gender equality
By Dr Oishee Mukherjee
The recent landmark judgement of the Supreme Court striking down the controversial Islamic practice of instant talaq, has...
Relook at eurasian strategy
India After SCO Summit
By Piotr Opalinski
(Expert, Centre for International Relations, Poland)
The 2025 Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Tianjin offered India both visibility and...
Can cm still run govt?
Kejriwal in ED Custody
By Insaf
Delhi’s high political drama with Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal firm on running AAP government from ED custody has left everyone...
Majority arrogance imperils system
Diversifying Agriculture
By Inderjit
(Published on 1 March 1988)
Arrogance of majority power is beginning to imperil our Parliamentary democracy even as we celebrate the 40th year...
Parliament: Time to evoke esma
Budget Session Trashed
By Poonam I Kaushish
Yawn! The outcome of Parliament's Budget session predictably went according to script: washed out by the AIADMK's Cauvery...
Battle over gods
Religious Conversions
By Poonam I Kaushish
Religion is turning out to be a big vote spinner, as our political undatas busily churn the conversion cauldron underscoring...
Bengal stands upto BJP
TMC Victory
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
In the intense West Bengal elections, the ruling-Trinamool Congress emerged victorious garnering around 213 seats, which belied predictions by most analysts, who...
Ideology be damned
Maha Switch Overs
By Insaf
Maharashtra sadly may end up having the dubious reputation of splitting political parties, or should it be said the honour would...
Rejuvenation will take longer
Economic Highlights
By Shivaji Sarkar
India is in dire crisis as economic recovery is slow; youth lose 41 lakh jobs during lockdown, employment uncertain, and...