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By Dennis Broe CANNES, France — It may be a bit cruel starting with Yeats’s summary of his era in his epic poem The Second Coming, but unfortunately, it is a somewhat accurate distillation of both the organization and the films of this edition of the world’s leading film...
Narendra Modi Is Using Ordinance To Ban Strike In Defence Industry
By Nantoo Banerjee Prime Minister Narendra Modi is probably making the same mistake as Mrs. Indira Gandhi did as the country’s prime minister almost four decades ago. The promulgation of ordinance to ban the proposed strike by all major trade unions at the Ordnance Factories Board (OFB) and its...
Buildings Are Not Just Bricks And Mortars, They Embody A Vision
By Amulya Ganguli A hundred years later, will another new parliament be built? The arguments which are now being advanced to justify the construction of a triangular building to house the MPs whose number may go up from the present 545 to more than 700 can be made again....
Electoral Mayhem In Uttar Pradesh That Exposed Yogi Democracy
By Arun Srivastava The people of this country, the land of RSS’s Hindutva, must hang their heads in shame for the chir-harana (disrobing) of the modern Draupadi in Uttar Pradesh, the state ruled by the fanatic Hindutva protagonist, Yogi Adityanath, by the cadres of RSS and Narendra Modi’s vigilantes...
India’s Tight Rope Walking On Myanmar Situation Poses Problems
By Ashis Biswas Some recent policy decisions made by Government of India (GOI) in the context of the civil strife in Myanmar have come at a price. Negative perceptions of the ruling NDA II as a regime with a paranoid obsession about national security and an expansion of commercial...
Supreme Court ‘Missed’ Its Chance To Help Migrant Workers During Pandemic
By Jahnavi Sindhu In June, the Supreme Court gave its final judgment on a fresh plea in a pending suo motu case of May 2020 in which the top court had taken cognizance of the difficulties migrant workers faced during the COVID-19 lockdown. The court directed the Centre and...
Custodial Violence Unabated Year After Shocking Sathankulam Deaths
By Navjeet Punia June marked the first anniversary of the gory and shocking custodial death of a father-son duo in Sathankulam, Tamil Nadu, during the pandemic. The deaths had triggered outrage in India even more as it transpired days after the brutal killing of George Floyd by cop Derek...
With Cabinet rejig, Modi is now battle-ready for polls
By Harihar Swarup Commentators falling back on the usual tropes to understand in the changes in Narendra Modi cabinet have predictably fallen short. While BJP and its supporters have wanted the focus to be on new entrants and technocrats and professionals, the women and caste rainbow, media attention has...
Amit Shah Will Make Use Of His New Cooperation Ministry To Challenge Pawar
By Sushil Kutty With additional charge of the ‘Cooperation Ministry’ given to Home Minister Amit Shah, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has identified ‘Political Enemy No.1’ – NCP supremo Sharad Pawar, who has been anchoring efforts to cobble up a viable and winning political alternative to the Modi-Shah BJP juggernaut,...
The Inevitability Of Ravi Shankar Prasad’s Exit
By K Raveendran Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut is not known for his oratory. But his one-liners have been straight to the point and often controversial, at times without any justification. But on many occasions his comments were noted for the insight these provided to behind the scene activities....
Modi’s Cabinet Reset Reflects BJP’s Aim To Consolidate In The North-East
By Sagarneel Sinha The major cabinet expansion and the reshuffle of the second Narendra Modi government have brought the North-East into the national picture. The region will now have 5 union ministers. This is the highest representation at the centre from the region, which often used to get neglected...
Major Indian Corporate Houses Are Profiting Out Of The Accumulated Loans
By C P Chandrasekhar In a stealthy game played over two decades, corporate India is walking away with huge wealth transfers, largely from the public banking system. After much delay, the halting process of settling the bad debt of defaulting corporates using the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) is...
Reintegration Needed To Overcome Job-Market Crisis Globally
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Almost a year and half into the crisis, there is still a risk of a rapid build-up of long-term unemployment. At the end of 2020, there were indeed 60 per cent more people unemployed for at least six months. This figure has continued to grow...
Opposition Parties Gearing Up For Assembly Polls In Uttar Pradesh
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Irrespective of the results of Zila Panchayats where BJP won maximum number of seats the opposition parties are gearing up for Mission 2022 assembly polls. Samajwadi Party being major opposition party has given call for state-wide protest on July 15 to galvanise and mobilise party...
Need For Independent Review Of Role Of Courts In Fr. Stan’s Death
By Prof. G Mohan Gopal Dr. Ian D’Souza, medical director of the Holy Family Hospital, Mumbai, reportedly informed the Bombay High Court on July 5, 2021, that Fr. Stan Swamy’s “ause of death is definitely pulmonary infection and Parkinson’s disease among others. There were post-COVID effects on his lungs.”...
Death In Jail Of Stan Swamy Is A Perversion Of Criminal Justice System
By Prakash Karat The persecution and eventual death of 84 year old Father Stan Swamy while in judicial custody has brought out many aspects of the perversion of the criminal justice system under the Modi regime. The use of the draconian Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) against political and...
Third Wave Of Covid-19 Approaching Faster
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Amidst the visible falling number of new cases of COVID-19 in India, the invisible threat of the third wave of the pandemic may be approaching faster than expected. Complacency among the people as well as in government may add to its speed at a time...
Hindus Are Most Divided In Their Choice Of Gods, Says Pew Research Centre
By Anjan Roy If you are thinking of the Hindus as a homogenous and monolithic cohort, you are wrong. Even in case of their choice of Gods, Hindus are as divided as the country itself. And the Godhead, around whom the nation had gone turbulent and a subsequent movement...
