By K Raveendran The sudden twist in the Supreme Court stand on the confidentiality of the report of the expert committee that probed the use of Pegasus spyware to snoop on politicians and people in public life has added more mystery to the imbroglio. The decision to keep the...
By Sushil Kutty In the mid-1990s, Ghulam Nabi Azad used to talk to journalists who had just then taken to television journalism. Azad was those days a top voice for the Congress and much sought after by journalists. Note that none of the then “TV reporters” were live to...
By James M Dorsey At first glance, a potential bid by Saudi Arabia and Egypt, two of the world’s worst human rights violators, together with Greece, to host the 2030 World Cup sounds like an invitation to a perfect public relations fiasco. That is undoubtedly true if one looks...
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Two-day National Labour Conference of labour ministers and labour secretaries of states and UTs concluded at Tirupati on August 26 which almost evaded the real issues against which the Joint Platform of the 10 Central Trade Unions have been agitating since 2019 when the Modi...
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The ongoing Governor-Government standoff, the fishermen’s agitation against the Vizhinjam international seaport and the Lok Ayukta imbroglio have roiled Kerala politics as never before, deepening the confrontationist ambience. Governor Arif Mohammed Khan has further upped the ante by refusing to meet political staff of the...
By Harihar Swarup In 2008, an Indian author (proper Indian, not just Indian-origin) won the Booker prize. Usually, this prestigious international literary award comes with an exaggerated sense of adulation. Not so, for Arvind Adiga’s the White Tiger. In reviews, essays and the quite supercilious conversations at parties of...
By Dr. Gyan Pathak It was only last month in the first week of July, the leader of the opposition BJP in neighbouring West Bengal Suvendu Adhikari revealed his party’s gameplan after the successful Maharashtra experience to form government in Jharkhand. The BJP leadership had already started the “Operation...
By Sushil Kutty There is no hard and fast rule that says the son should be like father. Otherwise, Aurangzeb would not have taken his own ship to the horizon after sinking Shahjahan’s luxury yacht. Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai is accused of dumping his father’s socialism for BJP’s...
By Arun Srivastava The deputy chief minister of Bihar Tejashwi Yadav, the youngest son of Lalu Yadav cautioned on Wednesday the three investigating agencies, ED, CBI and IT the jamais (son in laws) of the BJP government, to refrain from indulging in nefarious game of victimizing Lalu Yadav and...
By Rahil Nora Chopra After the formation of RJD-JD(U) government in Bihar, Deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav made known his choice, that of Nitish Kumar, as the PM face if opposition parties agreed to consider Nitish’s candidature against Narendra Modi for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. Tejashwi expressed his appreciation...