Disasters add to woes
Rising Inequality
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
Globally disaster losses are estimated at $520 billion per annum, pushing more than 26 million people into poverty every year. As...
Budget: No soft candy
Multi-Billionaire Debtors
By Shivaji Sarkar
Prime Minister Modi’s first budget, after a massive election victory, is neither an easy process for the Government nor does it...
Kashmir, a paradise again?
New Chapter Begins
By Insaf
What lies ahead and for how long will the voices in the Valley be suppressed, are questions among many others, which...
Another pandora’s box
National Language
By Dr. S. Saraswathi
(Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi)
In the series of efforts launched by the BJP government to promote unity and integrity of...
India embraces bharat bhakti
Ayodhya Verdict
By Poonam I Kaushish
The Gods, Ram and Rahim have had their way, say and come out trumps. The Ayodhya dispute which had became...
Tough, bumpy road ahead
Celebration Kis ki Aur Kya?
By Poonam I Kaushish
Another year bites the dust. And what a tumultuous year it has been, replete with victory and...
‘Supari’ for good men
SC Plays Crime Pooper
By Poonam I Kaushish
Crime does not pay … as well as politics. Wherein thousands of our criminal-politicos slug it out for...
A welcome ghar wapsi
Inter-State Movement
By Insaf
Homecoming it shall eventually be. Through a notification on Wednesday last, the Union Home Ministry has allowed inter-State movement of stranded...
The buck stops at Modi’s door
Serenading Success Or Ruing Failure
By Poonam I Kaushish
If you can’t dazzle them with brilliance battle them with bull. A truism which comes to mind...
Repositioning India
Chinese Incursion
By Dr. D.K. Giri
(Prof. International Politics, JMI)
After the recent Chinese incursion into Indian territories, Indians and India-observers abroad expected New Delhi to radically...
Parliament and the opposition
By Inder Jit
(Released on 15 January 1985)
All eyes are on the new Lok Sabha, which is due to assemble today for its first sitting....
2022:New hopes & promises
Covid Spoils Party Again
By Poonam I Kaushish
How does one begin an epitaph of the year gone by? Uncork the champagne and roll out the...
Fuels a national review
Price Roller Coaster
By Shivaji Sarkar
India is on a galloping price roller coaster. It has turned into a silent killer of the economy, forcing the...
Amid great expectations
Mid- Term Cabinet
By DrS.Saraswathi
(Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi)
Mid-term Cabinet reshuffle, though anticipated for some time, has come as a surprise to insiders as well...
New alarum over future polls
By Inder Jit
(Released on 29 March 1985)
His words still ring in my ears, loud and clear. “Our elections have become a farce”, asserted a...
National govt the remedy
Economic Letdown
By Shivaji Sarkar
It is an ominous year now. Panic decisions and maniac actions of keeping people off work has done wonders of squeezing...
Money hai to power hai!
Market For Defectors
By Poonam I Kaushish
In these hot climes, political India is feeling the heat and how! One doesn’t know who is sleeping with...
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...
Rural strategy critical
Towards Transformation
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
Discrimination in India has greatly affected our society and widened social and economic inequality. Besides, we witness another form of discrimination,...
Will needed for success
Mediation By Law
By Dr.S.Saraswathi
(Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi)
The Draft Bill on Mediation circulated by the Government for comments has come at a time when...