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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The two-day National Convention of RJD held on October 9-10 in Delhi has made it clear that there will be a united opposition led by the congress to dethrone the BJP in Lok Sabha Election 2024. RJP leader Lalu Yadav’s saying this in categorical terms...
By Arun Srivastava After their design to confine Nitish Kumar to Bihar going haywire, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his lieutenant Amit Shah have chalked out a fresh strategy to unleash a blistering attack on him and portray him as an opportunist politician who even did not care for...
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Unless Samajwadi Party National President Akhilesh Yadav understands meaning of Mulayam Singh Yadav’s role in the evolution of Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh, it would be a very difficult task to run the party in his absence. Akhilesh Yadav will have to see how his...
By Sankar Ray The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chairman and the erstwhile Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan’s threat to move the court over the recent audio leaks questioning how and who did leak them suggests that that the PTI chief seems to be on the lookout for an escape from...
By Tirthankar Mitra Panchayat elections scheduled to be held in West Bengal early next year will be in stark contrast to the rural polls held five years ago. But the CPI-M has little reason to be upbeat about its chances of surging past the BJP which many voters opposed...