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By Sushil Kutty BJP discard Arun Shourie is painting a black picture for the Opposition: Forget old arguments, grudges, get together, field one candidate against BJP in each constituency or kiss democracy goodbye. Scaring the pants off bhakt-baiters and #UrbanNaxals, who will do full shashtang before any god...
Urban Naxals: Real, or a convenient Government fiction?
By Amulya Ganguli The second hearing by the Supreme Court of the case against the so-called “Urban Naxals” will not only determine whether they pose a genuine threat or whether the police charges against them are an attempt by the government to create a smokescreen of terror...
Rupee Slide Poses Big Pressure On Economy, Government
By Nantoo Banerjee A two rupee fall in its exchange value with US$ — say, from Rs. 69 to Rs. 71 for a $ — may cost the country an additional external payment burden of nearly Rs.1,50,000 crore, in Rupee terms, on account of this year’s total import...
Emergency-Like, Retired Babus Return
By Aditya Aamir Who says the sarkari babu doesn’t have spine? Wait till he retires and watch him show backbone. And it doesn’t matter if an Emergency-like situation prevails, which is worse than Emergency. Ask the 48 retired civil servants who have written an open letter to the...
Left Democrats Gear Up For Mid-Term Elections In November
By Mark Gruenberg Labor and its allies in the Democratic Party in United States have built ground operations through which they plan to turn out record numbers of voters this November to take Congress out of the hands of the Republicans. In 2018, they may be right,...
Smog: Time To Act And Save Health Is Now
By Dr Arun Mitra For the last several years dense smog engulfs large part of north India, including Punjab, Haryana, western UP, parts of Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh and NCR Delhi. This happens during the months of October and November when summer has ended and winter is about to...
Jaitley Deserves A New Portfolio To Excel
By K. Raveendran Finance Minister Arun Jaitley’s portfolio must be redesignated as minister for defence of Modi. This is what he does mostly these days either because he has not fully got over his sabbatical mood or he has nothing much else to do in the finance ministry....
Terrorists Not Militants Go After Families
By Aditya Aamir Things have slipped so far out of New Delhi’s hands in four and a half years, Srinagar has become the frontier. It’s as if the LoC has shrunk and today cuts through Lal Chowk. A change of Governors made no difference. Terror has taken on...
Four State Elections And Two Political Parties
By Gyan Pathak In the midst of the BJP’s ridiculing Opposition leader Rahul Gandhi and his becoming stronger day by day, one thing is obvious – greater the ridicule, stronger he becomes. Ridicule has become BJP’s weakest weapon against Rahul, while the Congress president is increasingly resorting to...
Modi Government Caught In Its Own Whirlpool
By S. Sethuraman Signs of desperation for the majoritarian Modi government, as the country moves closer to the May 2019 Lok Sabha poll, are becoming manifest at both political and economic levels. The abrupt manner of taking into police custody a group of civil rights activists, noted scholars...
Modi Was The First To Criticise Congress Abroad
By Harihar Swarup Prime Minister Narendra Modi was first to break the rule of not raking up domestic matters abroad and criticizing opposition parties. His narrative of demonizing Congress, beginning with his 2014 address to Indian diaspora in New York’s Madison square garden, drew the battle lines for...
Trump Policies Leading To Shifting Alliances
By Conn Hallinan “Boxing the compass” is an old nautical term for locating the points on a magnetic compass in order to set a course. With the erratic winds blowing out of Washington these days, countries all over Asia and the Middle East are boxing the compass...
Advertisements On Health Misleading And Must Be Banned
By Dr. Arun Mitra Treating a patient involves history taking, examination of the patient and diagnostic investigations as per the need before forming an opinion about the illness of the patient and the differential diagnosis. Only then can a doctor prescribe the treatment, medical or surgical as the...
Unsung Heroes Of A Crippled Air India
By B. Sivaraman One of the prevailing myths about high-wage high-tech workers in India is that they are only concerned about their pecuniary benefits. The other associated myth is that their propensity to resort to direct action to safeguard their rights and interests is inversely proportional to their...
MP Parties Worried About RSS-Linked Staff On Election Duty
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: During Election Commission’s three day visit to Bhopal several political parties expressed apprehension that the ruling party might pack polling booths with government employees having affiliation with the RSS. It may be mentioned here that Madhya Pradesh government had permitted state government...
Arun Jaitley Is Losing His Battle Of Facts On Rafale Deal
By Nitya Chakraborty Finance Minister Arun Jaitley is steadily losing his battle with the opposition, especially the Congress President Rahul Gandhi over the facts on Rafale deal. Right now, he is not the Defence Minister but he is taking the most active part in defending the Government decision...
Nabard Financial Inclusion Survey Hides More Than It Reveals
K R Sudhaman The All India Rural Financial Inclusion Survey 2016-17, conducted for the first time by the National Bank for Agriculture & Rural Development (NABARD), seems to have some flaws in its findings. One of the reasons could be that the survey was conducted, as pointed out...
Dissent And The Famous Five
By Sushil Kutty Arnab Goswami is easy to place. He is out-and out ‘nationalist’. Rajdeep Sardesai is difficult to make. When he claims he’s ‘anti-national’, he could be joking, sarcastic. The ‘five’ in the eye of the storm give contradictory signals. Sudha Bhardwaj is ‘inherently good’ and just...
