By Rahil Nora Chopra Results of the recently held assembly elections of five states showed that the people are against BJP or in favour of BJP alliance in the states. Now the people are divided between the slogans of Modi Hatao Desh Bachao or Aayega To Modi Hi. While...
By Prakash Karat The union territory of Lakshadweep is a group of islands which are home to around 65,000 people. These quiet, peace-loving people are being subjected to a ruthless regime which seeks to deprive them of their way of life, livelihoods, food and cultural rights. The plague on...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...