By Dr. Gyan Pathak The pre-draft of the National Curriculum Framework for School Education 2023 prepared by the National Steering Committee for National Curriculum Frameworks and released by the Union Ministry of education is objectionable in several counts including vagueness and contradictions that they contain in themselves. A modern...
By Sushil Kutty The Congress party says the BJP-led Modi government “tutored” Padma Shri awardee Shah Rasheed Ahmed Quadri of Bidar in Karnataka to praise Prime Minister Narendra Modi in lieu for the Padma Shri, which had been eluding the master Bidri craftsman for years despite investing Rs 12,000...
By Rahil Nora Chopra The political buzz around the formulation of a National Front is back, with the major difference being that this time the Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao is discussing with like-minded parties and trying to forge a viable alternative to take on the BJP. According...
By Prabir Purkayastha The British saw the Mysore Kingdom of Tipu Sultan and Hyder Ali as a significant obstacle to the British Empire in India. The British lost the first three Anglo-Mysore wars before defeating Tipu in the fourth war. The British allies were the Nizam of Hyderabad and...
By Prabhat Patnaik Rubber prices, which had recovered a little after the fall during the pandemic, have collapsed again, with the farmers in Kerala, which grows 80 per cent of the country’s rubber crop, being badly hit. The central government has flatly refused to help the rubber growers, and...
By Anjan Roy So much for the much vaunted solidarity in the free world. The liberal and democratic nations of western Europe and America had vowed they were all standing firmly behind the besieged Ukraine to defend the free world against alleged Russian autocracy. The wide-ranging sanctions against Russia...
By Prakash Karat The violence and clashes that erupted in various places during Ram Navami observance on March 30 was an event foretold. Over the years, the Hindutva forces have shaped the Ram Navami processions into an instrument for aggression and attacks on Muslims. Last year, in 2022, the...
By Arun Srivastava The communal riots that shook Bihar and Bengal for three consecutive days in the wake of Ram Navami celebrations have been the part of the saffron conspiracy with three distinct motives, to destabilise the states governments of the two states, terrorise the Muslims and smash their...
By Hrishi Raj Anand Thousands of workers and peasants participated in a massive rally at Ramlila Maidan in Delhi on April 5 voicing their anger against the anti-people policies of the Narendra Modi Government and resolving to fight them unitedly. The rally was jointly organize by the CITU, All...
By Sushil Kutty Politics is dirty business. A lot of dust and dirt sticks to politicians. BJP Telangana unit Chief Bandi Sanjay will testify. Bandi Sanjay was dragged on a road by uniformed police officers and taken into custody, yet another “casualty” of the ongoing war between Telangana Chief...
By Tirthankar Mitra Deletion of portions pertaining to aftermath of assassination of Mahatma Gandhi from class 12 students curriculum of their political science texts goes against the spirit of argumentative democracy of the nation. The chop and change of National Education Policy (NEP) goes against its promise to throw...
By Krishna Jha For the first time we face the challenges against whatever we have held sacred till now. Our Constitutional values, our composite culture rooted deep in the society with all its beauty and love, our economy built democratically with a strong public sector, with rights to live,...
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav The recent dissolution of the National League for Democracy (NLD), the ruling party of Myanmar, has raised concerns about the country’s political stability and the ongoing conflict in the country. Myanmar, a neighbouring country of India, has long been a focus of attention for India...
By Keith Flett The latest offensive by Keir Starmer and those around him to marginalise the left in the Labour Party has captured media headlines, and of course, the full approval of the Rupert Murdoch-owned Times. Starmer, whose grasp of the dynamics of capitalism does not appear to be...
By K Raveendran An IMF working paper has commended India’s digital public infrastructure (DPI), which is known by the term India Stack, as a great success and recommended it for other countries, but with a rider that these countries may not have India’s enabling factors such as a vibrant...
By Sushil Kutty Nitish Kumar with the flex facade of the ramparts of the ‘Lal Qila’ behind him, with the tricolour for maximum effect, told the story of things to come and a rattled Bharatiya Janata Party descended on the Bihar Chief Minister, aspiring to give Prime Minister Narendra...
By Arun Srivastava Functioning of the judicial institution has always been under scanner, but after Narendra Modi ushered the country and its judicial system into New India, after coming to power in 2014, the credibility of the institution has to witness the most embarrassing period. Like all his promises...
By Girish Linganna The Indo-Pacific region has continued to be the focal point of diplomatic efforts in the last few weeks for Washington and its partners. During Prime Minister Kishida Fumio’s India visit on March 20, Japan introduced its Free and Open Indo-Pacific (FOIP) Plan. Additionally, Australia, the UK...