By Dr. Gyan Pathak India may become the third biggest economic power in the world by 2030. It has recently become the 5th biggest by replacing the United Kingdom, and is on the track to push Germany and Japan behind to become the 3rd only after the United States...
By K Raveendran The next time you go out to have your favourite masala dosa in Bengaluru, check out with the local panchang whether the time is propitious for it. At least this is what Bengaluru South’s BJP MP Tejasvi Surya realised. Along with the youthful saffron MP, the...
By Sushil Kutty Once Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ makes its way out of Kerala, there should be peace between the Congress and the CPM. In Kerala, other than their committed cadres, the two do not differentiate between voters. The Kerala voter shifts loyalty from one to...
By Arun Srivastava The manner in which the BJP created boisterous situation and its cadres indulged in violence near Nabanna the Bengal Government secretariat on September 13 certainly does not underscore BJP’s effort to stage a comeback, instead it makes explicit that the BJP had contrived a well-designed plan...
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Is Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Bharat Jodo’ yatra losing focus during its Kerala leg? The answer to that question, unfortunately, has to be in the affirmative. The Congress had started the yatra with the express objective of countering the BJP-led Union Government’s ‘divisive and anti-federal agenda. A...
By James M Dorsey Indonesia’s geopolitical plate is piling up as the archipelago state prepares to host the Group of 20 (G20) summit and associated gatherings in November, including the Religion 20 (R20), a high-level meeting of religious leaders, the first under the G20’s auspices. The challenges and opportunities...
By Harihar Swarup In February 19, 2017, at a meeting in Kochi’s Durbar Hall grounds, some of Kerala cinema’s biggest names gathered to protest the abduction and sexual assault of a woman actor. Among those present that day were superstars Mammootty and Dileep Singh, high profile directors –Kammal and...
By Nitya Chakraborty Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be visiting the historical city Samarkand in Uzbekistan on September 15 and 16 to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit amidst the continuation of the Ukraine war and the persisting misunderstanding between India and China over the border issues. This...
By Arun Srivastava Bengal BJP’s March to Nabanna, the headquarters of Bengal Government on September 13 against ‘TMC Corruption’ was a desperate exercise to project Mamata Banerjee as the most corrupt leader in the country, it also implicitly aims to counter ‘pro-separatist’ and anti-minority image and identify itself particularly...
By Sushil Kutty Arvind Kejriwal’s gimmicks! There was the time, early in his political career, January 2014 to be precise, when Kejriwal slept on the side of the road outside the Rail Bhawan in New Delhi, his body at ease on a mattress placed next to his famed blue...