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By Nick French This spring, the Democratic Party’s prospects in the coming midterm congressional elections looked extremely bleak. With high inflation squeezing wallets, President Joe Biden’s approval ratings at record lows, and most of the party’s national policy agenda apparently dead in the water, a Republican sweep...
Serena Williams Is A Legend In The History Of World Sports-Not Just Tennis
By Harihar Swarup Serena Jameka Williams, the world’s greatest tennis player, announced her retirement last week. An African American woman, Serena, along with her sister Venus, has dominated an essentially white sport—both in tennis of who played it and the audience that followed it. What kind of...
Those Who Committed Crime Against Humanity Have No Case For Remission
By Indira Jaising RAPE is considered an impact crime. An impact crime is one which is committed not just against the person for who she is but also because of her community identity; in this case a community of women, a community of minorities. The crime impacts...
Buoyant BJP Leadership Under Narendra Modi Preparing For 2024 Polls
By Kalyani Shankar Prime Minister Narendra Modi has strengthened himself in the last eight years, to such an extent in his party and outside that the gap in popularity between him and other probable prime ministerial aspirants comes no way closer to him. He is all set...
China On A Fast Track To Increase Its Strategic Hold In Indian Ocean Zone
By Anjan Roy China is tightening its grip and strategic strangle hold around India faster than perceived earlier. But, at the same time, Chinese move can bring about radical changes in security alignments in the Indian sub-continent. In its hurry to gain dominance over the...
Politics In Himachal And Gujarat Heating Up Before Polls
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The 100 times hike in compensation for martyr’s kin by Gujarat from Rs 1 lakh to Rs 1 crore shows how much anxiety has gripped the ruling BJP just a few months ahead of Vidhan Sabha election in the home state of PM Narendra...
Kejriwal And Sisodia Challenging Narendra Modi In Gujarat Polls
By Sushil Kutty Delhi’s New York Times-accredited Education Minister Manish Sisodia is the latest cult figure to invade our minds. And whoever knew Manish Sisodia is a “kshatriya” kept the secret to himself, which was fine because now that we all know, we can look down at the...
Farmers’ Relaunching Their Struggle To Get Their MSP Demand Conceded
By Arun Srivastava The farmers are again on the battle path against the Narendra Modi Government as the centre did not fulfil its commitment given to the farmers leaders last year before withdrawal of the year long agitation. The farmers’ demonstrations in and around Delhi on Monday...
Withdrawal Of PDP Bill Points To Tech-Shy Government’s Weak Spot
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav In a surprise move, the government on August 3 withdrew the much-awaited Personal Data Protection (PDP) Bill from parliament. After it was introduced in Lok Sabha in December 2019, the PDP Bill was referred to the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC), which tabled the bill...
China’s ‘Quadrilateral’ With Bangladesh, Lanka, Pakistan Aims At Trade-Military Cooperation
By Nantoo Banerjee There is nothing to be surprised about Sri Lanka’s decision to dock Chinese ‘spy’ vessel Yuan Wamg-5 at its Chinese-built Hambantota port, last week, despite protests from India. Sri Lanka President’s belated statement that China won’t be allowed to use the port for military...
Reduction Of Prices Of Essential Drugs Is Imperative For Common People
By Dr Arun Mitra The news that the company producing Paracetamol in the trade name of ‘Dolo’ spent 1000 crore rupees as freebies to the doctors for the promotion of their drug is a matter of concern. It shows the total failure of the government in regulating the...
Anand Sharma And Azad’s Resignation From Panels Is A Bad Omen For Congress
By Sushil Kutty Unless a plane crashes or a jeep turns turtle, Congress politicians always seem to have a long autumn. The long and short: regardless of what happens, Congress politicians carry on with stoic resolve. Not even self-respect comes in the way. But it is “self-respect” that has...
A Coastal Community’s Struggle For Protection Of Their Livelihood, Habitat
By K Raveendran A month-long agitation by the coastal fishing community around Kerala’s Vizhinjam port in defence of their livelihood is threatening to stall India’s leading corporate Adani group’s schedule for the development of the port. Hundreds of fishing community members, mainly women from the nearby...
Remembering Rajiv Gandhi On His 78th Birth Anniversary On August 20
By Anjan Roy Had he been alive, Rajiv Gandhi would have been somewhat of an old man today. He would have crossed 78. But he remains for ever a young man who had once said that he had a right to dream — dream about India. Rajiv...
Nitish Kimar May Be The New Mascot Of Opposition To Fight Modi In 2024 Polls
By Harihar Swarup Here’s something about Nitish and the number 7, Circular Road. As Chief Minister, he has been at 7, Circular Road, while using 1, Anna Marg, the official residence as his office. Now, with CM severing his five-year-old old alliance with the BJP and walking over...
Decoding My 72 Years In Independent India: Part Four
By Nitya Chakraborty The third millennium began in the midst of resurgence in telecom and computer sector. India with its reservoir of technologists soon came in the front line of that global churning with the Indian engineers making a big name in the software sector. But in...
Bilkis Bano Case, Yet Another Eye-Opener To Judge BJP
By Binoy Viswam On the 75th year of Independence, Prime Minister Narendra Modi as usual was eloquent in his rhetoric. He minced no words to impress upon the people of India by preaching his government’s commitment to the men and women of the country. Though he addressed the...
Crowd In Field Against Modi Is A Delight For Saffron Party
By K Raveendran The line-up against Narendra Modi for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections is expanding steadily, but not in terms of its overall clout, but in the number of divisions. Mamata Gandhi was seen as one of the early claimants, but her Trinamul is...
