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Rural India Is Taking The Brunt Of NDA Government’s Gross Failure
By Krishna Jha Down with shock and grief we are today the carriers of our dead. Our rivers are swollen with Covid corpses. Ganges, the most beautiful gift of nature to us, is unsightly with the bodies floating all over not only in the flowing water but also on...
RSS Using CBI To Dissipate Centrist Forces
By Arun Srivastava There is no ambiguity about the nature and character of the legal war that is going on in Calcutta High Court. So far it appeared to be a war of attrition between the CBI and Mamata Banerjee on the arrest of TMC ministers and leaders. But...
Afghanistan Issues: Bangladesh India On Same Page
By Ashis Biswas India is not alone in worrying about the long term impact of the US troops’ pullout from Afghanistan. Dhaka also shares Delhi’s concern. In Bangladesh, the recent arrest of four youths, who were on their way to Afghanistan to enroll/fight as Islamic jihadists, confirms the abiding...
Narendra Modi Govt Abdicates Duty Towards Farmers Union’s Demands
By Dr. Silpa Aziz As the farmers’ protests against the farm laws of 2020 completed six months on May 26, 2021, let us trace the trail of these laws and their basis. The government made a systematic and consistent approach in bringing about these laws. While NITI Aayog’s agri...
Bob Dylan Reminds US Times, They Are A Changin’
By Papri Sri Raman And you better start swimming, Or you will sink like a stone, For the times they are a changin’ …The battle outside ragin’, Will soon shake your window, And rattle your walls. Yes, this can be called a protest song but 80-year-oldlyricist Bob Dylan cannot...
In A Positive Sign For World Peace, Biden To Meet Putin For Summit
By John Wojcik President Joe Biden will hold a summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin on June 16 in Geneva, a face-to-face meeting between the leaders of the two countries with the largest nuclear arsenals. Many who prefer a confrontational approach to U.S. relations with Russia have already been...
Satyajit Ray’s Centennial Year: Three Encounters Of The Close Kind
By Nitya Chakraborty The Indian filmmaking legend Satyajit Ray stepped into his 100th year on May 2, 2021. The maestro died in 1992, at the age of only 71. He left us without finishing many of the proposed film and writing projects which he had undertaken in his last...
Debate Can Wait, But Not Oxygen For A Gasping Lung
By K Raveendran It is certainly not a happy situation as the courts are seen increasingly overstepping the boundaries between the Executive and Judiciary to the extent that there is probably need to redefine the relationship. The debate on whether the courts are right or wrong in what they...
May 26 As A Black Day For Farmers
By Gyan Pathak Farmers’ agitation against three farm laws completes six months on May 26, the day on which Narendra Modi became Prime Minister of India seven years ago. It may be just a coincidence, but is politically significant as Black Day for all except Modi and his fan...
Centre And State Governments To Blame For Second Covid Wave
By Sagarneel Sinha The second wave of the Covid-19 virus in the country has been very painful. The disturbing pictures of people grappling for oxygen and the darkness of the nights being lit by hundreds of funeral pyres in the over-crowded crematories — also resulting in dumping of bodies...
Man Who Symbolised India’s Conservation Movement
By Harihar Swarup In early 1994, the U.P. government announced the auctioning of 2,500 trees overlooking the Alakhnanda river in the upper reaches of what is now Uttarakhand. Lumberjacks arrived in Raini village to cut trees. A local girl saw them and informed the villagers. Women in large group...
The Single-Most Hated Figure In Lakshadweep
By Sushil Kutty Lakshadweep hates two men, and both happen to be Gujarati. Make that three men – Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, and third, the most hated of them all, Lakshadweep administrator Praful Khoda Patel, whose one single thought every morning he wakes up, they...
Supreme Court Directive To CBI In Bengal Arrests Case Significant
By Indira Jaising The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to interfere with the order of the Calcutta High Court placing four All India Trinamool Congress (TMC) leaders Madan Mitra, Firhad Hakim, Subrata Mukherjee and Sovan Chatterjee, accused in the Narada sting case, under house arrest with liberty to continue...
A Legislative Council For Mamata’s West Bengal
By Kalyani Shankar Even as the post-poll violence and vendetta politics continue in West Bengal, one more flashpoint has emerged between the Centre and the state with chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s cabinet deciding to revive the Legislative Council last week. Revival of the second chamber is one of Mamata’s...
A Cry That Was Not
By Dr. Arun Mitra The catastrophic damage caused by the COVID pandemic has put every person on physical and mental strain. Several families have lost their members. Losing kith and kin leads to the biggest stress on one’s mind. No person unless totally emotionless can avoid crying with sorrow...
The Wages Of The Doldrums Of The Day
By Sushil Kutty Did you know that most Covid-19 deaths take place in the hours between midnight and dawn, extending up to when a new workday begins with a change of doctors and nurses and other hospital staff? Late in the night hospitals and patients are left to the...
UP Civic Poll Loss Jolts BJP To Start Damage Control
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: BJP is busy with damage control following the drubbing it received in the recently held panchayat polls. There have several meetings of the party’s central leadership with the state leaders to chalk out a strategy to improve the image of the party and the government...
Bangladesh Left Bloc Demands Withdrawal Of Case Against Journalist
By Sankar Ray Bam Ganatantrik Jote (Left Democratic) front comprising Bangladesh Samajtontri Dal, Communist Party of Bangladesh, Bangladesh Samajtontri Dal Marxvadi, United Communist League of Bangladesh, Samajtontri Andolan and Ganatantric Biplabi Dal in a joint statement demanded that the criminal case against the leading Bengali morninger Prothom Alo senior...
