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By Rahil Nora Chopra In Rajasthan BJP is facing a bigger problem from their own cadre than from the Congress or opposition parties. The situation is similar to the one prevailing at the time of by-elections when the party workers had opposed chief minister Vasundhra Raje. The...
Naeem Ahmed Qazi, a development consultant for national and foreign institutions and primarily an educationist, has reminded Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan Niazi of his past when he played cricket with a straight bat. In an acid-tongue opinion piece indicting the new government for surrender to the religious...
By Barun Das Gupta In the first week of this month the Prime Minister broke the news to the nation that India’s first indigenously built nuclear submarine Arihant had successfully completed its first ‘deterrence patrol’. Though the PM did not make such a claim, a section of the...
By Shameem Faizee After destroying the national economy by shamelessly pursuing the pro-Corporate economic policies, the Narendra Modi government in last year of its power is bent upon conducting loot and loot of the remaining national wealth to save its skin as well as spend the looted...
By Nitya Chakraborty It was two years ago, on that fateful night of November 8, 2016, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced his “historic” decision of demonetization promising that it would act as a game changer in the Indian economy by driving out black money, weed out fake notes...
By John Wojcik A substantial majority of Americans went to the polls on November 6 and pulled the lever for candidates who opposed President Trump and his policies. Even in the elections for the U.S. Senate, where the GOP gained at least three seats, 10 million more people...
By Aditya Aamir “With public sentiment, all is possible; without it, nothing is,” said Abraham Lincoln. So, is public sentiment with the Hindutva call for a Ram temple in Ayodhya, as it is in Kerala for keeping women of 10-50 age at arm’s length from celibate Swami Ayyappa?...
By Kalyani Shankar Now that the Supreme Court has made it clear that the Ayodhya title suit is not its priority and even the hearing date will be decided next January, the saffron parties are getting agitated about the construction of Ram temple in Ayodhya. “We have other...
By Noor Zaheer Indian People’s Theatre Association (IPTA) celebrated its seventy five glorious years which was commemorated in a five day long festival of theatre, music, dance, songs, discussions and deliberations in Patna, from October 27 to October 31. It needs to be elaborated that IPTA was not...
By Amulya Ganguli Neither the world’s tallest statue of Vallabhbhai Patel in Gujarat, nor the frenetic clamour for a Ram temple in Ayodhya has been of much help to the BJP down south in Karnataka. As the by-election results there show, the preference for the ruling Janata...
By Aditya Aamir Sujata. Girija. Lalitha. The trio caused an upheaval at the Sabarimala temple Wednesday morning. Blame it on Kerala women and coconut oil, Parachute! One of the ladies did not look her age (52), her hair darker than a tropical forest, her time on earth looking...
Live-in partners can seek maintenance under the Domestic Violence Act – The Supreme Court has held that a woman living in a live-in relationship is entitled to seek maintenance from her partner under the Domestic Violence Act. The Supreme Court was answering a reference from the Jharkhand High Court...
By Amritananda Chakravorty The last few weeks have been replete with media reporting alarming levels of air pollution in most major cities of India, especially the National Capital Territory of Delhi. Images of thick smog and children and old people wearing masks in Delhi have been splashed in...
By Anjan Roy We are hearing about creating a New India or Naya Bharat. From the Prime Minister to political parties we are hearing about plans and programmes for creating this New India. But a New India is already emerging, independently of governments and agencies, out...
By Aditya Aamir Check posts, cellphone call jammers and facial geometric cameras on the one side. On the other, the BJP caught contemptuously dismissing the Hindu horde as “stupid devotees” to take advantage of their blind faith, fair game. The BJP admission caught on tape! A snatch of...
By Nantoo Banerjee Poor Reserve Bank of India governor Urjit Patel! Only two years ago, soft-spoken Patel appeared to be the government’s ‘perfect’ choice for the job. It was more so after the NDA government found it increasingly difficult to deal with his more combative predecessor, Raghuram Rajan,...
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: “First I was asked to resign from the chief minister ship, then I was ousted from the Cabinet and now I am denied party ticket. I have won from Govindpura ten times with huge margin, twice highest in the state; I have been...
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The BJP-RSS’s sinister game-plan to create a martyr on the Sabarimala issue and milk it to gain rich political and electoral rewards ended in fiasco, forcing embarrassed leaders of the saffron brigade to run for cover. The BJP even called a hartal in...