By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Congress in Kerala has decided to harden its stance against the Modi Government to erase the impression that the party is soft on the BJP in the State. That is the unmistakable message from the statewide satyagraha the party organized to protest against the...
By Harihar Swarup The evergreen film hero Dilip Kumar has passed away but he will ever remain alive in people’s memory. “Saheed” was his early film which portrayed him in the lead role of a martyr. Son of a DIG, the hero turned a revolutionary during the British Raj...
By Nitya Chakraborty Yogi Adityanath Government in Uttar Pradesh has launched massive assaults on democracy and the constitutional values in the state to retain power in the next assembly elections scheduled in February/March 2022. In its bizzare actions, Yogi and the Sangh Parivar are getting full encouragement from the...
By Kalyani Shankar Should India do away with the concept of personal laws and bring in a Uniform Civil Code for all citizens? Is this the right time for bringing such a law? Supporters say it is already too late, while the opponents feel that this is not the...
By Sushil Kutty If West Bengal is repeated in Uttar Pradesh polls in 2022, Prime Minister Narendra Modi might have to book a 2024 ticket to Vadnagar, Gujarat. The pressure is on Yogi Adityanath. The Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister must have grown up on ‘Papa Kehte Hain Bada Naam...
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Global hunger level has been skyrocketing since outbreak of COVID-19. In 2020, it rose by more than in the previous five years combined. Between 720 and 811 million people faced hunger during the first year of the pandemic, and the world is off the track...
By Sankar Ray The 20-year US war in Afghanistan, hand in hand with the Afghan National Security force against the Taliban is over. General Austin “Scott” Miller – the highest-ranked officer on the ground – handed down command to US-based four-star General Kenneth McKenzie, bringing the longest US war...
By Anjan Roy “I don’t have a single Muslim friend”, said S.Y. Qureshi, former Chief Election Commissioner of India, while recalling his memories of having large Eid parties in his spacious bungalow in Lutyens Delhi in his official days. Mr Qureshi was speaking as a panel member on discussions...
By Dennis Broe CANNES, France — It may be a bit cruel starting with Yeats’s summary of his era in his epic poem The Second Coming, but unfortunately, it is a somewhat accurate distillation of both the organization and the films of this edition of the world’s leading film...
By Nantoo Banerjee Prime Minister Narendra Modi is probably making the same mistake as Mrs. Indira Gandhi did as the country’s prime minister almost four decades ago. The promulgation of ordinance to ban the proposed strike by all major trade unions at the Ordnance Factories Board (OFB) and its...