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By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Tuesday’s Supreme Court order on the Sabarimala issue has only deepened the CPI(M)-led Left Democratic Front (LDF) government’s dilemma. True, the apex court has agreed to hear the raft of review petitions on January 22, 2019. But, significantly, the court has refused to...
By Amulya Ganguli The Congress’s manifesto for the Madhya Pradesh elections would have made Jawaharlal Nehru squirm with embarrassment, especially the portion about the commercial utilisation of gaumutra (cow’s urine). Nothing defines the antediluvian, unenlightened mindset of the Hindutva brigade more graphically than its obsession with...
Aditya Aamir That sense of déjà vu. Tuck it in the front pocket. What else? Ask, is there a streak of sadism in the Supreme Court? Can it explain “hearing of 49 review petitions in open court on January 22, 2019” while “make it clear there is no stay...
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The setting aside by the Kerala High Court of the election of Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) legislator K M Shaji constitutes a severe setback for the party, which is the second most powerful constituent of the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF). The...
By Anjan Roy Running battle between the country’s central bank and the union finance ministry is matter which should not ordinarily concern the common man. It should however become a cause for worry if these start hitting the nation’s economy. From the present indications, unfortunately this is what...
From Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Finding it very tough to retain the 73 seats it won with help of allies, BJP is playing aggressive ‘kamandal’ and Mandal cards for the 2019 Lok Sabha polls. CM Yogi Adityanath, who is considered to be the face of aggressive hindutva, has...
By Aditya Aamir Imagine 4 crore people on the edge of the seat. A prayer on their lips. Malayalis! On five continents with most of them concentrated on a sliver of land, Kerala. Four crore mortals and an increasingly vulnerable deity, the celibate Swami Ayyappa, waiting for Justice...
By Kalyani Shankar Stage is set for the high stakes elections to five states — Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Mizoram and Telangana — this week. The BJP and the Congress are engaged in an almost direct fight in most of these states. Though the results would be known...
By Ben Chako Every year, the most diligent promoters of Armistice Day promise something new and different. The broadcasting media, in particular, tell us they will not only be commemorating the scores of millions who perished in 20th-century wars. They will, we are assured, be looking at why...
By Anjan Roy Europe is currently reliving through the painful memories of its history. More particularly, that part of its recent history in the first half of the twentieth century when two bloody wars had devastated the continent and decimated its population. The trigger for this looking...