Leftist Legacy & Influence:

Aam aadmi should be priority By Dhurjati Mukherjee The recent elections to Delhi University, JNU and Hyderabad University bear testimony to the fact that Left philosophy...

Don’t solve problems

'Landmark' Farm Bills By Shivaji Sarkar The bulldozing of the two bills -- Agricultural Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Simplification) Bill and Farmers (Empowerment and...

$4 billion at stake!

Temple Economy By Shivaji Sarkar The temple economy is as large as the Indian budget sustaining the country. Its contours across the religious denominations of Hindu,...

Immediate action needed

Teacher Education By Dr. S. Saraswathi (Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi) The HRD Ministry has launched the National Initiative for School Heads and Teachers Holistic Advancement (NISHTHA),...

Delhi woefully wronged!

Leaders Vs Bureaucrats By Insaf The nation’s capital, Delhi, rather any other State in the country, wouldn’t have seen anything like this before. Actions of government...

A lesson in coalition

Karnataka Pattern By Dr.S. Saraswathi (Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi) "Is this the way to run a coalition government, where every day you have to request your...

Politics at its worst

Bengaluru Riots By Insaf Riots and the aftermath give political parties a handle to settle scores, rather than heal the wounds. The country’s digital capital, Bengaluru,...

Time to take action

Toothless EC, Netas Merry By Poonam I Kaushish In this theekha-masaledar just concluded electioneering season our netagan are reveling in neechi and tuch under-the-belt vitriolic language,...

Can opposition nail failure?

Govt Performance By Dhurjati Mukherjee The latest Human Development Report (HDI) Index has given India a ranking of 130 among 188 countries in 2017, once again...

A mini revolution

New Education Policy By Dr S. Saraswathi (Former Director, ISSCR, New Delhi) Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that the new National Education Policy (NEP) will mark...

Covid 19 Rajniti

Fuel Hike Fury By Poonam I Kaushish Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek...

The Indian imperatives

Changing International Relations By Dr DK Giri (Secretary General, Assn for Democratic Socialism) What kind of world are we living today in? When we look around, we find...

India’s timely warning to Pakistan

By Inder Jit (Released on 30 January 1990) Pakistan and its rulers urgently need to pause and ponder. They should not allow the developments in...

Third front in Kashmir?

Apni Party By Sagarneel Sinha In static mode for the past eight months, finally there is a stir in Kashmir politics. Recently, Altaf Bukhari, a former...

Privatisation no answer

Banking Crisis By Moin Qazi Famous investment leader Warren Buffett said, "It's only when the tide goes out that you realise who has been swimming naked"....

Shortcut to conversion?

Inter-Faith Marriage By Dr.S.Saraswathi (Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi) Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Haryana and Karnataka are in the forefront keen on enacting a law against conversion...

Govt support, tech input vital

Boosting Farm Income By Dhurjati Mukherjee Two recent developments in the agricultural sector merit attention. The first is the constitution of the long-awaited committee to look...

Who will bell the crime cat?

Criminal Sense Vs Moral Sensibility By Poonam I Kaushish Ouch! Truth hurts when it hits bull’s eye. “Nations start off on the basis of high ideals...

Vital for just social order

Independence of Judiciary By Dhurjati Mukherjee Justice Ranjan Gogoi, who is expected to be the next Chief Justice of India, recently analysed the problems of the...

RBI: Worst Days Over, Yet

Inflation, private banks worrisome By Shivaji Sarkar The slowdown has bottomed out, asserts RBI. Indeed, a positive indicator in the last over a year whereby India’s...