By Nantoo Banerjee Consumers in India are buying like never before. With the spectre of covid-19 pandemic nearly gone, the country’s middle class consumers seems to have approached the ongoing festival season with vengeance. They are sparing practically nothing — from liquor to fashion wear, consumer durables, smart phones,...
By Sushil Kutty And just like that India split down the middle. This time for what happened 5-and-a-half-hour behind India time. Half of India was rendered low, the other half on a high note. And this partition, too, had Britain at its core. Naming a Hindu PM-designate of the...
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a “Rojgar Mela” (fair for distributing jobs) in Bhopal on October 22, 2022, with a great fanfare, propaganda, and photo-session for media coverage commending efforts of creating jobs in the country by his government in the last eight years. This...
By Arun Srivastava Boris Johnson is known for his excellent manoeuvring political skill. His rusticity has added to his charisma and this has been primarily the reason that Britons entrusted him to task to lead their country. Obviously the person who has put lot of efforts to build his...
By Ashis Biswas Certain official decisions announcing better pay/allowances for their employees in the neighbouring states have caused major embarrassment to the West Bengal Government. As it is, the ruling Trinamool Congress(TMC) has for some years been facing the charge of being unsympathetic to state Government employees, because of...
By Branko Marcetic The security failure that led to the January 6 Capitol Hill riot in 2021 was always deeply weird. How was it that the vastest, most penetrating surveillance state in human history Unites States of America was taken by surprise? Why was law enforcement ― which responds...
By Sankar Ray The gloss of political triumph in the sweeping victory by the Pakistan-Teehreek-e-Insaaf in seven out of eight bye-elections to the National Assembly faded out by a technical knockout by the Election Commission of Pakistan. ECP disqualified the PTI chairman and the erstwhile Prime Minister of Pakistan...
By Arun Srivastava The leaders of the saffron brigade, RSS and BJP, are quite annoyed with the Supreme Court’s concern over hate speech and putting the simple question; “what have we reduced religion to? There cannot be fraternity unless members of community drawn from different religions or castes of...
By Harihar Swarup “Ek parinda bhi nahi mar sakta Ayodhya main (I will not allow a bird to flap its wing in Ayodhya)”—the line famously delivered by Mulayam Singh Yadav in 1990 that was to make him presiding deity of M-Y (Muslim—Yadav) politics in Uttar Pradesh for quarter of...
By Sushil Kutty On October 21, when the Supreme Court asked police of Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand to initiate direct action against hate speech and not “wait for complaints”, adding that “hesitation” will invite instant retribution, the first thought that came to mind was that the Supreme Court...