By Aditya Aamir The lesser known ‘MJ’ has quit his job post-MeToo accusations, but the more famous ‘MJ’ continues to maintain a wall of silence to multiple accusations of #MeToo surfacing against him online. Maybe, it’s because journalist Mayank Jain’s employer Business Standard decided to act, set...
By Ashis Biswas After Nepal, it could be the turn of Bangladesh to see a revival of anti-Indian political forces and fresh tensions against the minority Hindu community over the NRC controversy in Assam. Sentiments in Bangladesh have been aroused in recent times over repeated contemptuous references by...
By K R Sudhaman The UNCTAD’s 2018 Trade and Development is an eye opener that all is not good with the global economy and hyper-globalisation pursued for some time now has only widened inequality. In case of India bad debt of banks is threatening financial stability. The...
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: Congress has received a big boost with the Sadhus and Sants of the state assuring the party of support. A delegation led by Mahendragiri Maharaj Dandewale and Mahant Ramdas paid a visit to PCC chief Kamal Nath at his residence on the day...
By Kalyani Shankar Will there be a ‘Grand Alliance’ of the opposition ahead of 2019 Lok Sabha polls? As of now, many opposition parties including the Congress feel that it could only be a post-poll arrangement. For instance, the NCP chief Sharad Pawar has told a news...
By Aditya Aamir “We will get you all one day,” wrote the woman journalist, starting her write-up with “Dear Male Boss.” Yes, this is the freshest face of the #India’sMeToo movement, a campaign that’s snowballing across Bollywood and in media-spaces all over the country, putting media in a...
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By N Sundaramurthy Inequality and income disparities are growing. Rich are becoming richer. ‘Barclay’s Hurun India’ has published the ‘Rich list for 2018’. It is a list that carries the names of individuals with net worth exceeding Rs.1000 crore. The wealth of India’s top 100 richest people has...
By Arun Srivastava Arithmetic is not the determinant of the political permutation and combination. It has many indices and the most vital has been the political awakening of the people, in this case the Dalits and mahadalits of the Hindi heartland. Some columnists recall the political maneouvering of...
By Amulya Ganguli It began with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s advice to the Supreme Court judges in 2015 to be wary of the “five-star” activists who tried to push their social reforms agenda through the courts via public interest litigation. The advice was in keeping with the growing...