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By Sushil Kutty Fareed Zakaria’s documentary ‘Two Faces of Kim Jong Un’ was telecast Sunday night on CNN and being the Indian that he is/was, Zakaria wished, before the programme aired, that “hope President Trump watches so that he gets a better understanding of who he is going...
By Arun Srivastava The momentous victory of the BJP in the 2014 Lok Sabha election was neither the success of Hindutva nor a defeat of secularism. Consolidating their gains, the saffron brigade used the expansion to broad base its Hindutva outreach and agenda. They were in a mad...
By Nantoo Banerjee Not many people in Bengal may have ever heard the name of a outfit called CPI-ML Red Star, not until it attacked a Power Grid Corporation’s (PGCIL) sub-station project, being built in co-operation with the West Bengal government, at fast developing Rajarhat in Kolkata’s outskirt....
By Aditya Aamir Lynching is mob action. A ‘group of people’ lynch. So the term ‘mob lynching’ is an oxymoron. Lynching is mostly out in the open. In town and village square. In the Wild West of America it was stringing from the nearest tree. A couple or...
By K R Sudhaman Three years after setting up of Niti Aayog and path-breaking award of 42 per cent devolution to states from the central pool of taxes by the 14th Finance Commission, the question is now asked whether fiscal federalism has really got a shot in the...
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The worst is over, and the Nipah-struck Kozhikode district is bouncing back to normality. The most gratifying aspect is that no new cases have been reported in the ‘second wave’ of the Nipah outbreak in north Kerala. None of the second set of...
By K Raveendran The most hilarious court judgment ever is attributed to Sir Roger de Coverley, an Old English fictional character. Sitting in judgment for three days, hearing a dispute between two men complaining against each other, Sir Roger finally gave the verdict: Much might be said about both...
By Arun Srivastava Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar has lost the battle for survival even before it was trumpeted. The manner in which Nitish has been shifting the goal post and shuffling agendas gives a clear indication that he is in deep crisis and unable to evolve his...
By Harihar Swarup Encouraged by the poll success in Karnataka and by-elections in Uttar Pradesh, Opposition unity looks certain in the run up to the general elections in 2019. If the Opposition sticks together, the BJP led by Narendra and Amit Shah, appears to be in trouble. Presuming...
By Sushil Kutty Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History Of Time and Citizen Pranab Mukherjee’s A Short History of Bharato! One a book, the other an oral summation. Hawking’s book was for eighth graders and it explained complex concepts such as space, time and black holes to the simple mind....