By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: There is no mistaking it. The CPI(M)’s fulsome praise of the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML), the second most powerful constituent of the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF), has scared the daylights out of the Congress. There is a delicious irony here. As the leader...
By Prabhat Patnaik The fact that income and wealth inequalities have increased quite dramatically under the neo-liberal regime is beyond dispute. The empirical work by Piketty’s team bears out the increase in income inequality. They use income tax data to infer about the share of the top 1 per...
By Arun Srivastava Exploiting the death of the poor in an accident has been most awful pastime rendezvous of the politicians. This apparently got manifest in the death of nearly 50 people in the Chapra hooch tragedy of Bihar. The BJP which has been prime mover of the idea...
By Rahil Nora Chopra With BJP having recently lost the Sardarshahar assembly by-election in Rajasthan, a slogan has been creating fresh buzz, gaining popularity in Rajasthan:“Kaho dil se, Vasundhara phir se!” . While Raje has been involved in a tussle for power with...
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Congress is depending on the success of Bharat Jodo Yatra of Rahul Gandhi to create a favourable atmosphere for party to do well in 2024 Lok Sabha polls in Uttar Pradesh. In order to spread the message of Rahul Gandhi, Congress also organised state level...
By Sanjay Roy The quarterly estimates released for the second quarter (July to September 2022) by the National Accounts Division estimate a GDP growth of 6.3 per cent which was pegged at 13.5 per cent in the first quarter of 2022-23. It is understandable that the previous figure was...
By Sushil Kutty There was God, the ‘God of Cricket’, Sachin Tendulkar. For a people with 33 million gods and one more discovered or invented every once in a while, this wasn’t a surprise. Like somebody insignificant pointed out, gods should be shown their place except the ‘One’ almighty...
By K Raveendran A global survey of companies has revealed a serious shortage of tech talent when it comes to artificial intelligence, which is threatening to slow down the shift towards the new productivity tool. A majority of respondents in the survey, carried out by management consultancy McKinsey, have...
By Ram Kumar The tendency to centralise administration and power – and thereby weaken the federal structure of the constitution – is a hallmark of the Narendra Modi government’s policy. One of the important ways in which the Modi government attempted to violate the constitutional powers of the states...
By Krishna Jha In almost every act of development, there keeps flowing an undercurrent of loss. Every beginning is based on the negation of its preceding one. One glaring example is that of global warming. There is smog, wide spread and dense, erosion destroying the course of streams and...