By Harihar Swarup Any one who claims to live in God’s light and hates a brother or sister is still in the dark. It is the person who loves brother and sister who dwells in God’s light and doesn’t block the light from others. But whoever hates is still...
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Micro, Small and Medium enterprises in India struggled for revival in 2022, gained a little momentum, but could not realise its full potential, due to a range of hurdles they faced, including in accessing public finance, rising prices and high inflation increasing input costs, hike...
By Sushil Kutty The AK Antony panel constituted by Sonia Gandhi to look into the 2014 Congress debacle blamed BJP’s Hindu communalism for the Congress defeat and concluded that Hindu votes mattered to win elections. Regardless, the Congress lost in 2019. Now, after eight and a half years, AK...
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Mishandling of backwards quota issue for civic polls by BJP has given an issue to opposition to corner BJP and boost the morale of leaders like Akhilesh Yadav, Jayant Choudhry and Priyanka Gandhi. The only exception is BSP national president Mayawati who is seen giving...
By Rahil Nora Chopra As a result of the historic win by the BJP in the recently concluded Gujarat assembly polls, the demand for change of leadership in the Madhya Pradesh unit of the party has gained ground. BJP leaders in the state are claiming that the party could...
By Prabhat Patnaik The hegemony of imperialism is invariably associated with an agrarian crisis in countries of the global south; in fact agrarian crisis is just the other side of the ascendancy of imperialism. This is evident from the case of Indian agriculture. The colonial period saw a more...
By Sankar Ray In mid-December this year, foreign exchange reserves of the State Bank of Pakistan’s (SBP) dropped to $6.1 billion, the lowest level since April 2014, meaning that the SBP had reserves, just enough to meet five weeks of imports needed. The reserves of commercial banks declined by...
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav The startup scene has been substantially subdued in 2022. Compared to 542 in 2021, only 244 new unicorns were created in 2021. Indian startups have not been aloof from the global trend, and compared to 44 in 2021, the country produced only 23 new unicorns...
By James M Dorsey Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu’s far-right, Jewish nationalist, ultra-conservative coalition government threatens to put the Jewish state on a collision course with Jewish Diaspora Jewry and could weaken or undermine a pillar of Israeli national security: unquestioned US support. The looming crisis with two of Israel’s...
By Prakash Karat A look back at the year 2022, which is ending this Saturday, shows that it has been a year in which the Indian economy struggled to come out of the deep trough it was plunged into in the years 2020 and 2021. Rising inflation, growing unemployment,...