Ap tops, Gujarat slides
States Business Acumen
By Insaf
Three cheers for Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. The two bifurcated States have shown tremendous resilience since 2014 and given Modi's Gujarat...
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...
Can we rise above petty politics?
Governance of Capital City
By Dr. S.Saraswathi
(Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi)
The recent judgment of the Supreme Court's Constitution Bench clarifying the relative powers of the...
Creating positive synergy?
Bank Mergers
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
The NDA Government's decision to merge State-run banks to reduce their losses appears so far to have been taken rightly. The...
Social media ‘kills’
Murderous Mob
By Poonam I Kaushish
Social media 'kills' and how! Mob lynching is back on the political-social scene with 17 cases across 9 States from...
Mere temporary solution
Hike In MSP
By Shivaji Sarkar
The Union Cabinet's decision to hike minimum support price (MSP) for 14 crops is a move to ease agrarian distress...
Worst in India’s history
Water Crisis
By Moin Qazi
India has long undervalued one of its most precious resources -- water. The country's chronic mismanagement of water is staring at...
Exaggerated, yet an issue
Women Most Unsafe In India
By Dr. Oishee Mukherjee
The recent survey by Thomson Reuters Foundation showing India as the 'most dangerous country for women' in...
What did it change, achieve?
Surgicl Strikes
By Poonam I Kaushish
It's been a sluggish dull political season brightened by two news, one from black money haven Switzerland that Indians bank...
Rupee on historic low
Trump Corners India
By Shivaji Sarkar
The trade war, US warning against the deal with Iran, India's move to WTO with Norway against high duties by...
Punjab wriggles out of it
Office of Profit
By Insaf
The idiom 'better safe than sorry' makes good sense to the Punjab Government. Aware of growing frustration amongst his flock of...
Assam, a critical case
Migration & Citizenship
By Dr S Saraswathi
(Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi)
The deadline for the final draft of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) for Assam...
Of slogans & genuine work
2019 Election Flurry
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
There is hectic activity among political parties and their leaders regarding the impending Lok Sabha elections 2019. On the one...
Time for continuity
Kashmir: Road Ahead
By Poonam I Kaushish
Insanity, is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results, said Einstein. Apply this to...
Politics vs Economists
Exit of CEA
By Shivaji Sarkar
The third high profile departure, now of Chief Economic Advisor (CEA) Arvind Subramanian coming shortly after the decision to...
Better or for worse?
Kashmir Split
By Insaf
Better or for worse, is a question doing the rounds in Kashmir. The two mismatched partners, the PDP and BJP's bid to...
Will it ensure better performance?
Lateral Entry In Bureaucracy
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
The bureaucracy rules supreme in Government and legacy has been inherited since British days. The oft-stated 'bureaucratic attitude' is...
Where is the political will?
Kashmir: Elusive Peace
By Poonam I Kaushish
The travails of picturesque Kashmir continue. Political India is in the midst of loud cantankerous cackle on Kashmir. All...
Has it outlived life?
Changing WTO
By Shivaji Sarkar
World trade is changing fast and in a unilateral direction. The US President Donald Trump is deciding the course. He raises...
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"....