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Centre-State Confrontation Hurting Rural Poor In West Bengal
By Ashis Biswas In West Bengal, the administrative deadlock with the centre over the mandatory provision of 100 days work for unskilled rural people under the MNREGA scheme drags on, adding to the political concerns of the ruling Trinamool Congress(TMC) Government. This project, suspended since last December in the...
Annie Ernaux’s Writing Has Given Dignity To The Working Class Lives
By Jess Cotton Annie Ernaux, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature last week, was not on the other end of the telephone when the committee rang to deliver the news. Last year, she received a prank text telling her she had won the illustrious award, which might...
Hijab issue referred to higher bench after split verdict
The highly sensitive hijab issue has been referred to a larger bench headed by the Chief Justice as the Supreme Court passed a split verdict on a batch of appeals challenging restriction on Muslim girl students wearing Hijab in educational institutions in Karnataka. Justice Hemant Gupta dismissed the 26...
It Is High Time Age Of Supreme Court Chief Justice Is Reconsidered
By K Raveendran Chief Justice U U Lalit can feel happy that his 74-day tenure, coming to an end on November 8, is not the shortest in the history of India’s Supreme Court. That dubious record belongs to the 22nd chief justice, K N Singh, who occupied that position...
Despite Denials, Mallikarjun Kharge Has All The Stamp Of Gandhi Family
By Sushil Kutty Congress presidential candidate Shashi Tharoor is getting under the other Congress presidential candidate’s skin, party veteran Mallikarjun Kharge, who has to now defend himself from marketplace innuendos that his name for the top party post was “suggested” by none other than the party’s interim president, Sonia...
Economics Nobel This Year Celebrates Old Wines In New Bottles
By Anjan Roy Economists have ennobled their discipline by turning some basic common sense into highly esoteric and exotic body of intellectual exercise. Common housewife is the best economist for Aristotle. Economics for the Greeks was the knowledge of running a household’s balances. The economics Nobel prize this year...
Geopolitical Minefields Of President Erdogan’s Ambitious Turkic World
By James M Dorsey Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has blown new life into Turkey’s vision of a Turkic world that stretches from Anatolia to Xinjiang in north-western China. “Central Asia now resembles the 1990s when there was a huge competition between global and regional powers for influence over the...
Human Sacrifice Trauma Tarnishes Image Of ‘Progressive’ Kerala
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A case of ‘human sacrifice’, in which two women were brutally killed, has shocked Kerala. It is difficult to believe that such an act of unspeakable barbarity should happen in a progressive state like Kerala. But that is the chilling reality to which traumatized Keralites...
Al-Zawahin Led Al-Qaeda With Equal Ruthlessness As Osama Bin Laden
By Harihar Swarup Ayman al-Zawahiri, the Egyptian-born surgeon turned-Jihadi known as al-Zawahin who assured the leadership of al-Qaeda after killing of Osama bin Laden led a life steeped in secrecy, betrayal, conspiracy and violence, after the September 11 attacks against U.S. in 2001. While bin Laden, who was killed...
AAP Supremo Arvind Kejriwal Is Trying To Compete With BJP In Hindutva Race
By Sushil Kutty At last a political party other than the Bharatiya Janata Party has caught on that cornering increasingly rabid Hindu votes is half the electoral battle won in Modi’s India. For decades, the “secular” and “communal” Hindus were separated by the Muslim vote-bank with the secular Hindus...
