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Aditya Aamir The voices varied as Lalu Prasad Yadav was sentenced to three-and-a-half years after being convicted by a Ranchi court on December 23 last year in another of the fodder cases dogging him from the mid-1990s. While some have read out his political obituary others have spoken of...
By Barun Das Gupta BJP’s Hindutva politics has brought Assam on the brink of a massive social unrest. The reason is the party’s decision to grant citizenship to all Bengali Hindu immigrants from Bangladesh after March 25, 1971, while holding all Bengali Muslim immigrants as ‘illegal infiltrators’ to...
By Aditya Aamir If there were no castes in 1818 and assuming there was an idea of India at the time, the 900 Mahars who joined the British to defeat the Peshwa’s 20,000-strong army would have been treated as traitors and anti-nationals. But there was a ‘British India’...
By K. Raveendran Two steps backward and one step forward. This pretty much characterises the approach of Congress and other parties on the issue of reforming the Muslim society of its outdated practices, the one in contention currently being triple talaq. Most accept that it is unfair on women...
By Harihar Swarup Mohammed Arif Khan, a minister in the Rajiv Gandhi government, was seen vehemently pleading for retention of punishable clause as the Rajya Sabha took up triple talaq Bill for discussing. It was his rare visit to the Central Hall of Parliament and he was trying...
Jay Bhagwan Congress President Rahul Gandhi did not have to wade into Central Statistical Organisation (CSO) to take potshots at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley for the expected slide in Gross domestic Product (GDP). The figure stood up to bring out the genius in Rahul:...
By John Green It aims to highlight a new stage in the evolution of global capitalism: Mafia capitalism. We are, though, not talking here of a few family Cosa Nostras controlling the underworld, but well-organised crime syndicates, with links to governments and security services, gnawing their way to...
By Emile Schepers On December 21, the Autonomous Region of Catalonia in Northeastern Spain held new parliamentary elections to replace the legislature which had been deposed earlier by decree of the right-wing government in Madrid. However, the elections resolved nothing, with the electorate still split on the issue...
By Dr. Arun Mitra Despite ongoing tensions in various parts of the world, the year 2017 ended with a positive note. The Treaty Prohibiting Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) passed by the UN General Assembly on July 7 would always be counted in red letters in history. It has raised...
By Aditya Aamir Victimhood comes naturally to the Dalit. Jignesh Mevani understands this better than most. The Gujarat MLA has pitted himself willy-nilly against Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Maybe he thinks that is the sure shot way to not only become the headline but also to make it...
Sushil Kutty Did Kulbhushan Jadhav pull a fast one on his captors? The abducted Indian national on death row in Pakistan is heard asking in the fourth Jadhav video (JV), “Why are you lying about my working for an intelligence agency?” He asks the question immediately after he tells...
By Rahil Nora Chopra Congress wants to make it a repeat of Gujarat in Karnataka in terms of election campaigning. This will mean that more of the soft Hindutva card will be flaunted, as the party believes it worked in Gujarat. As such, Rahul Gandhi’s campaign tour, beginning...
By Mark Gruenberg The new tax law the passed by the Republicans-run Congress and signed by President Donald Trump “stakes out America’s bid to become the most extreme society in the world” in unequal distribution of wealth, a new United Nations report says. And, adds Philip Alston,...
By Aditya Aamir The average Jameel in India has delivered instant triple-T to his wife by smartphone, whatsapp and email. And not a single average Jameela has stepped forward and said she was thrilled at getting talaq-e-biddat. Clerics, scholars and politicians who say the triple-T Bill, now...
By Gyan Pathak People are being enforced to become participant in zealously pursued digitalization by the government of India, a country where almost 26 percent people are illiterate and 950 million people are digitally illiterate out of the total population of about 1.3 billion. Moreover, we are not...
Aditya Aamir The average Jameel in India has delivered instant triple-T to his wife by smartphone, whatsapp and email. And not a single average Jameela has stepped forward and said she was thrilled at getting talaq-e-biddat. Clerics, scholars and politicians who say the triple-T Bill, now roiling Parliament, leaves...
By Gyan Pathak The output and quality of exports from India has decreased in the first five months of the GST regime in the country, says the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Commerce after assessing its impact on exports. It cannot be taken lightly merely on the claim...
By Sankar Ray The 45th US President Donald John Trump’s 50-word tweet, accusing Pakistan of siphoning US $ 33 billion-plus aid to Afghan terrorists giving them ‘safe heaven’ and ‘given us nothing but lies & deceit’ has been volleyed back by Pak Minister of Foreign Affairs Khawaja...