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By G. Srinivasan With traditional investment avenues not guaranteeing even plausible returns and the equity markets stymied by the greed and recklessness of firms floating even initial public offerings (IPOs), leave aside those established ones not living up to their reputations for fair-play, it is small wonder that legions...
After Malayali MGR, Vanakam to Maratha Shivaji Rao
Sushil Kutty A Tamil nationalist party called Naam Tamihzar has told Tamil superstar Rajinikanth – in whom “politics has entered” – to storm no Tamil bastion because he is not Tamizh. Well, to them should be asked the question, who was MGR and where from came Jayalalithaa? MGR for...
Death and dictators make us celebrate New Year
Sushil Kutty President Donald Trump has wished Happy New Year to his “supporters, haters, enemies and fake news.” And his ‘Rocket Man’ North Korean ‘enemy’ Kim Jong Un has said the “nuclear button is always on my desk” with all the US territories within range of his rockets. Sounds...
Chouhan Hopes To Gain Politically From His Yatra In 2018
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: Year 2017 was a highly stormy year both for the government and the people of Madhya Pradesh. Unprecedented happenings took place during the year. Most important was farmers’ agitation. The agitation was so violent that the police had to kill about six agitators...
Corbyn Needs To Take Detractors Head On To Succeed
By Arun Srivastava With British Prime Minister Theresa May unable to handle effectively the Brexit issue and the Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn emerging as the most favoured candidate for the top job, a section of the Labour leaders opposed to Corbyn’s entry into the office of the...
Jobs Policy Must Focus On Quality, Better Livelihood
By Nantoo Banerjee It is good to know that the government is working on a first ever national employment policy that will address the crucial issue of jobs creation in the country. The policy is intended to outline a comprehensive road map with focus on creation of quality...
Pakistan’s real terrorists roam free, and kill at will
Aditya Aamir Pakistan’s Foreign Office labelled Kulbhushan Jadhav as “India’s face of terror’ and said he was the vilest killer let loose on Pakistan soil by India’s spy agency the Research & Analysis Wing (RAW), so vile that even his 70-year-old mother and wife are fair game to be...
Impact Of Sabang Bypoll Results In Bengal
By Ashis Biswas KOLKATA: It is not often that a particular election result pleases both winners and losers —although broadly, that was the gist of the recently concluded Gujarat Assembly polls. The BJP was happy to win (however narrowly) for a record sixth time bucking anti-incumbency issues, while...
Pakistan: Through The Looking Glass
By Sushil Kutty “It’s a great huge game of chess that’s being played—all over the world—if this is the world at all, you know.” – Lewis Carroll Where were they? What place was this? The flight from Dubai, and then here they were – the wife and...
Modi’s Blurred Win In Gujarat Signals End Of Honeymoon
By S. Sethuraman For a chastened Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who could just manage to keep Gujarat for BJP by striking a parochial chord and thereafter claiming an “emotional victory”, 2018 would be full of challenges on all fronts, political, social, and in reshaping our foreign policy in...
TTV Dinakaran Is Tamil Nadu’s Dark Horse
By Kalyani Shankar Tamil Nadu is back in focus again, this time in view of the surprising results of a by-election. They have raised a pertinent question whether corruption is an issue at all in this country. The results say no. Who would have thought that the people...
Desperate idea to topple immovable Modi
Sushil Kutty Ideas and opinions are dime a dozen. Everyone has one. But the odd one succeeds and the man becomes a millionaire! That one is a start-up. This one is political and just cannot win, an election for the Congress that is. It is that of an independent...
Rajputs Re-Emerge As Ruling Clan In BJP
By Rahil Nora Chopra The Rajputs seem to have made a comeback as the ruling clan under the BJP. With the swearing in of Jairam Thakur, Himachal Pradesh is the fifth BJP-governed state with a Rajput chief minister after Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Chhattisgarh. Rajasthan chief minister...
2G Spectrum Scam Verdict Suffers From Serious Infirmities
Special CBI judge O.P. Saini acquitted all the accused in the 2G spectrum allocation scam cases. The accused included A Raja, then Telecom Minister, K. Kanimozhi, daughter of M. Karunanidhi of the DMK, Shahid Balwa, Sanjay Chandra, Reliance Telecom and Gautam Doshi, amongst others. An accompanying case had Ravi...
Indian Politics Victim Of A Dirty Conspiracy By Saffron Brigade
By Arun Srivastava The CBI special court verdict exonerating all the accused in the 2G spectrum scam exposes the moral decline in the Indian polity during the last five years. The credibility of Indian politicians has always been suspect, but the manner in which it was shredded by...
A New Year’s wish for that brighter socialist future!
By Victor Grossman BERLIN: Berlin and Germany offer plenty to write about, sometimes much of it unpleasant. As we approach the New Year, none of it is burningly new or urgent. Bargaining on forming a new government will last well into 2018, with little prospect thus far of change...
Drug Prices Need Streamlining To Make Them Affordable
By Dr. Arun Mitra Since the cost of drugs comes to about 70 percent of the out of pocket expenditure on health, this becomes a cause of major concern. Because 80 percent of medical care in our country is in private sector and advanced tertiary care is mainly coming...
AIBEA To Launch Struggle Against Liquidation Of Banks
By C.H. Venkatachalam The Cabinet approved the FRDI Bill (Financial Resolution & Deposit Insurance Bill) and thereafter the Bill was introduced in the Parliament on the last day of the last Session and now the Bill has been referred to the Joint Parliamentary Committee. The Bill has created widespread...
