Wednesday, April 2, 2025
Assembly polls punch holes in BJP citadel
  Elections in four states and a Union territory at a time when the people in the country were dying in hundreds due to the second wave of corona pandemic not only was reflected the arrogance...
AAP Volunteers leaving sinking ideology ship
AAP - a party led by Arvind Kejriwal rose through the political corridors rapidly as a symbol of change in Indian Politics. Rubbing on people’s wishful thinking of the clean, anti-corruption vigilante brigade. A party...
Kashmir, Article 370 removal
  Over four-and-a-half years ago on a visit to Srinagar when Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti was running the government in coalition with the BJP, I said to a student audience at Kashmir University's media studies department...
farmers protest
  The complete shutdown witnessed on March 26 in the wake of nation-wide bandh called by farmers’ union reflects the deep agony agriculturists in the country are going through. The bandh call was given to mark...
  All was going perfectly well for Mr Gautam Adani till Shani Gochar happened on 17th January 2023 and the wrath of the fearsome god hit the third-richest man in the world. If only he had...
No more lal batti culture, time to rein in on haughty babus
  Every now and then, one gets to read and hear about the erratic, arrogant and at times aggressive behaviour of the civil servants who abuse the power vested in them by the constitution with impunity,...
Political violence in West Bengal a fait accompli
From unprecedented post-poll violence to judges recusing themselves from hearing the Trinamool Congress’ (TMC) cases, the story of West Bengal appears to be a power game with all the trappings of brute force and domination....
  On a day the Congress turned 136, Rahul Gandhi, tipped to be party chief again, courted controversy. The Gandhi scion skipped the party’s foundation day ceremony on December 28 as he flew to Milan, Italy reportedly...
Centre-state tussle casting a long shadow on Indian federalism
Election after election keeps India in a state of perpetual war with itself. The chaos borne out from the political slugfests continued to bedevil the nation’s progress throughout its 70-odd years of history and still...
Covid in Bihar
Till June 8, Bihar was among those states in the country which reported low death toll from coronavirus despite the fact that the number of cases recorded was quite high. Hence, the new figures the...