By Gyan Pathak India’s foreign minister S Jaishankar has made a scathing attack on the institutions that have recently downgraded India’s democratic status by describing them ‘hypocrites’. It is, but a very poor defense for the country, and much less the democracy and the human rights that have been...
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Success seldom goes to the timid. It goes to those who dare and act. This is a famous quote attributed to India’s first Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. Well, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has chosen to dare in the selection of candidates for...
By Pradeep Kapoor The initiative of AICC general Secretary Priyanka Gandhi to train the party cadre before next assembly polls in 2022 has boosted the morale of party workers. As part of strengthening the party organization, Priyanka Gandhi directed UPCC president Ajai Kumar Lalloo to inaugurate two-day eastern zonal...
By Anant Prakash Mishra It was an evolutionary reposition for constitutional jurisprudence in India when the Supreme Court decriminalised homosexual intercourse between consenting adults in Navtej Singh Johar vs. Union of India. In an exquisitely written judgement, the five-judge constitutional bench engaged in a sundry discussion that ranged from...
By Luke Savage Given their appalling regularity these days, media layoffs have begun to take on the character of a grim ritual that follows a now all-too-familiar pattern. With great pomp, a big industry player, media baron, or venture capitalist will announce a bold new merger or acquisition, often...
By Harihar Swarup As Narendra Modi addressed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s mega rally at the Brigade Parade Ground in Kolkata on Sunday afternoon, a Bengali TV channel was showing, on a split screen, chief minister (CM) Mamata Banerjee’s meeting in Siliguri. When Modi raised the pitch on allegations...
By K Raveendran Justice Indu Malhotra, who retired the other day after a distinguished three-year tenure as a Supreme Court judge, produced what many considered as an outrageous verdict on the Sabarimala women’s entry, but subsequent developments on the vexed issue completely bear her out. Despite her unmatched achievement...
By Gyan Pathak With observance of Anti-privatisation Day on March 15, 2021, the movement against proposed large scale privatization of Public Sector Undertakings in India will enter a new phase, during which the Modi government will have to face stiff organized resistance not only from the workers’ union of...
By Sushil Kutty A total of 24,882 new Covid-19 infections on March 12, the highest this year; active cases cross 2 lakh again. That’s the progress of a pandemic which likes to kill in waves. Yup, fears are Covid-19 will not go far from where we live, whether that’s...
By Papri Sri Raman It is poll time in Tamil Nadu and it is natural that some answers are sought about the land, where people are known to be star-crazy, and this is the State that has elected film stars as leaders for more than half a century. So,...