By Rahil Nora Chopra Former Congress President Rahul Gandhi has declared Charanjit Singh Channi as the CM face of the Congress in Punjab, marking a departure from the party’s tradition of declaring the leader after the election. The decision was taken days after the Congress high command had sought...
By Prabhat Patnaik Capitalist governments invariably seek to control inflation by enlarging unemployment. This has nothing to do with any belief in a stable “trade-off” between the two, namely in a stable curve that links the two. Even those who attribute inflation to other causes, such as excessive money...
By Siddharth Chaturvedi and Priyansh Bharadwaj Recently, multinational technology company Meta’s founder Mark Zuckerberg remarked at an event that ‘India will hugely contribute in building Metaverse.’ This statement raises hope that India is on the cusp of bringing a new revolution of the Internet to the world. However, not...
By Krishna Jha Budget has come, offering no optimism, no security against the nose diving economy, and without succour to the starving, unemployed masses. Whatever it has offered for the common masses is underlined by the falling living standards and continuation of further contraction. As even essentials are getting...
By Nitya Chakraborty The decision of the five members of the Congress Legislature Party in Meghalaya to participate in the Government along with the BJP, is a big blow to the efforts of the opposition parties at the national level to build unity against the BJP in the coming...
By Prakash Karat The hijab worn by Muslim girl students has been seized upon by the BJP and Hindutva forces to create another divisive and anti-Muslim polarisation in Karnataka. The insistence of six girls on wearing hijab (head scarf) to class in the government pre-university college in Udupi was...
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The Congress is being watched, more keenly than ever before, not only by all political parties but also by the people in the country in general and Uttar Pradesh in particular, the state that goes to polls with first phase of voting on February 10....
By Sushil Kutty Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ANI interview was by a journalist who hobnobs with BJP leaders. So it was that the questions were to Modi’s comfort level. Most of the 70 minutes went with the feeling that Modi was interviewing Modi! The one-on-one interview setting, however, kept...
By Matein Khalid It is not the end, it is not even the beginning of the end but it is the end of the beginning. Churchill’s famous words express my own feelings about the latest psychotic Bitcoin cycle. This crypto-puppy was at an all time high of $68,990 last...
By Jenny Farrell On James Joyce’s 40th birthday, Sylvia Beach in Paris published his now most famous work, Ulysses, written in Trieste, Zurich, and Paris, 1914-1921. That was on February 2, 1922. Excerpts had appeared in the U.S. magazine The Little Review between 1918 and 1920. But deemed obscene,...