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On 75th Year Of Independence, India Lacks A Strong Opposition
By Kalyani Shankar Indian democracy presently suffers from its lack of a strong Opposition. Some feel that the secret weapon of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s success is the divided Opposition. Even Supreme Court Chief Justice NV Ramana recently lamented, “There used to be mutual respect between...
Decoding Indian Economy’s Journey In The Last Seventy-Five Years
By Prabhat Patnaik The post-colonial state in India had two primary tasks before it: one was to overcome the hegemony of metropolitan capital, so that a development strategy in relative autonomy from imperialism could be pursued; the second was to attack landlordism both to free the agrarian population...
BJP Will Find It Difficult Now To Get Bills Passed In Rajya Sabha
By Arun Srivastava One liner puzzling remark from Nitish Kumar, after being sworn in chief minister, “the person who came to power in 2014 will not come back in 2024” while has brought about a major shift overnight in the political culture and dynamics of the country, his...
Colombia Will Be More Fair And Peaceful Under Left Regime
By Satyaki Chakraborty On August 7, 2022, Progressive International Council member Gustavo Petro became the first left-wing president in the history of Colombia. In an address to the nation that was marked by his sense of history and vision for a new Latin America, Petro elaborated on his...
Nitish Kumar Has A Tough Task To Prove Himself Once Again
By Sushil Kutty Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar had once told a national daily that if a man was true to himself and to his country, he can become Prime Minister in his 70s! Kumar, born in 1951, is now in his 70s. Also, seldom does one man...
BJP And Sangh Parivar Had Never Any Faith In An Integrated Inclusive India
By Amulya Ganguli It might not be churlish to say that the celebration of the 75th year of Indian independence is more an official event associated with the BJP than a national occasion. The fact that the BJP was ousted from Bihar while facing an angry opponent...
Regime Change In Bihar Is A Positive Development For Opposition
By Arun Srivastava In the fierce battle for buttressing political supremacy between the two Chanakyas, Amit Shah was made to bite dust by Nitish Kumar by aborting his mission Operation Lotus, an endeavour to remove Chief Minister Nitish from power and also restructure his task to finish yet...
Modi Government Is Using 75th Anniversary Programme To Distort History
By Dipankar Bhattacharya A week ahead of the 75th anniversary of Independence, India commemorated the 80th anniversary of the Quit India movement on 9 August 2022. The Congress leadership had been arrested immediately after giving the Quit India call from the All-India Congress Committee session in Mumbai, but...
Rapid Urabanisation To Reshape India’s Energy Consumption Pattern
By K Raveendran The rate of urbanisation in India has so far been slower than other emerging countries. But this is expected to change drastically in the coming decades. So much so that in the next two decades, the country is expected to add a new city of...
India Is Now Preferred Destination To Japanese Companies For Investment
By Subrata Majumder In 2020, Japan adopted two policies to strengthen supply chain resilience. Big subsidy was provided to stimulate Japanese investors to diversify offshore investment and invest in domestic market for supply chain resilience. The main aim was to reduce overdependence on China. Focuses were made on...
