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By Aditya Aamir Dissecting #MeTooIndia is dicey. It’s still the tip of the sword but might morph into a weapon of choice in the hands of the righteous avenger. Any woman with a grudge can lend it to misuse. Even otherwise, #MeToo by definition is anti-male, and the...
Supreme Court Direction On Rafale Deal Rattles Modi Govt
By Nitya Chakraborty The Supreme Court’s Directive to the Modi Government on October 10 asking it to provide the details of the decision making process on the Rafale deal to the Court in a sealed cover by October 29, has rattled the Modi Government. The Prime Minister’s...
LDF Government Suffers Loss Of Face
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Left Democratic Front (LDF) has suffered a huge loss of face over its decision to cancel the approval for setting up three breweries and a liquor blending and bottling plant in the state. The government has itself to blame for the massive...
Policy Paralysis Is Nitish Govt’s Trademark
By Arun Srivastava In Nitish Kumar’s Bihar it is the rule of criminals and goons that prevails, with the lives of the common people, especially women, who are supposed to be his trusted vote bank, being decided by them: certainly not sushasan as claimed by the chief...
Bhilai Workers’ Death: A Wake-Up Call
By B. Sivaraman On 9 October 2018, the news that came from Bhilai Steel Plant was a shocker. Nine workers were killed and 14 injured in a blast in the plant. Such industrial tragedies routinely keep shocking the conscience of the nation. Let us consider three sectors which...
Modi Govt is Still Silent on Akbar
By Aditya Aamir The lesser known ‘MJ’ has quit his job post-MeToo accusations, but the more famous ‘MJ’ continues to maintain a wall of silence to multiple accusations of #MeToo surfacing against him online. Maybe, it’s because journalist Mayank Jain’s employer Business Standard decided to act, set...
NRC Row’s Hostile Anti-India Fallout In Bangladesh
By Ashis Biswas After Nepal, it could be the turn of Bangladesh to see a revival of anti-Indian political forces and fresh tensions against the minority Hindu community over the NRC controversy in Assam. Sentiments in Bangladesh have been aroused in recent times over repeated contemptuous references by...
UNCTAD Report Rings Warning Bells On Global Economy
By K R Sudhaman The UNCTAD’s 2018 Trade and Development is an eye opener that all is not good with the global economy and hyper-globalisation pursued for some time now has only widened inequality. In case of India bad debt of banks is threatening financial stability. The...
Rivals Step Up Tempo Of MP Poll Campaign
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: Congress has received a big boost with the Sadhus and Sants of the state assuring the party of support. A delegation led by Mahendragiri Maharaj Dandewale and Mahant Ramdas paid a visit to PCC chief Kamal Nath at his residence on the day...
Where is the ‘Grand Alliance’ to take on Modi-Shah in 2019?
By Kalyani Shankar Will there be a ‘Grand Alliance’ of the opposition ahead of 2019 Lok Sabha polls? As of now, many opposition parties including the Congress feel that it could only be a post-poll arrangement. For instance, the NCP chief Sharad Pawar has told a news...
#Metoo Traces Ice Cube To MJ Akbar
By Aditya Aamir “We will get you all one day,” wrote the woman journalist, starting her write-up with “Dear Male Boss.” Yes, this is the freshest face of the #India’sMeToo movement, a campaign that’s snowballing across Bollywood and in media-spaces all over the country, putting media in a...
Winds Of Change In Post-Poll Maldives
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Indian Polity Moves To Peril Under Modi Rule
By N Sundaramurthy Inequality and income disparities are growing. Rich are becoming richer. ‘Barclay’s Hurun India’ has published the ‘Rich list for 2018’. It is a list that carries the names of individuals with net worth exceeding Rs.1000 crore. The wealth of India’s top 100 richest people has...
Mayawati Is Playing Politics Of Opportunism
By Arun Srivastava Arithmetic is not the determinant of the political permutation and combination. It has many indices and the most vital has been the political awakening of the people, in this case the Dalits and mahadalits of the Hindi heartland. Some columnists recall the political maneouvering of...
Hindutva Camp’s Unease With The Supreme Court
By Amulya Ganguli It began with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s advice to the Supreme Court judges in 2015 to be wary of the “five-star” activists who tried to push their social reforms agenda through the courts via public interest litigation. The advice was in keeping with the growing...
Urban Ayyappas File ‘Commonsense’ Petition
By Aditya Aamir Your flaws are what make you perfect. You can say that of most everything, too. Like review petitions in the Supreme Court, which point to flaws in otherwise thought to be ‘perfect judgements’. But that’s okay because in many cases, dissenting justices underline the ‘flaw’...
Dollar And Gold Smuggling Up
By Nantoo Banerjee The rising incidents of gold and US$ smuggling in and out of the country, following the downward exchange value of Indian Rupee, have become a source of major economic concern. They are threatening to further weaken the Indian currency. Recent reports from the Directorate of...
Yes, this is the “sign” you’ve been looking for!
Music, theatre, film, dance, and other performing arts, as well as literature and other media such as interactive media, are included in a broader definition of the arts. Until the 17th century, art referred to any skill or mastery and was not differentiated from crafts or sciences. In modern usage after the 17th century, where aesthetic considerations are paramount, the...
