Giving out the Prizes
A new legislation made it mandatory to spend money on CSR. This excited the author and brought him back to his activist college days, before decades of selling to...
Trump Brings World near Another World War: New NSA Bolton Advocates Attack on Iran and North Korea
Pushing the world to the brink of nuclear war with the appointment of Bolton is apparently totally acceptable—provided the cash keeps flowing. H.R. McMaster is approximately the 60th person...
Ever Changing Political Psyche Puts Parties on Tenterhooks: Modi Losing the Rationale for a Repeat Performance
BJP lost not only in Uttar Pradesh but also in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh and had come to the verge of losing the majority in the assembly elections in...
Global Arms Producers are Not Interested to Make in India: World Dealers Make More by Exporting to India
India is the world’s largest arms importer. And, it may remain so for many years to come. Why should an arms manufacturer-exporter expand its production base to India to...
CPI(M) Once Again Betrays its Anti-Agitation Mindset: Opposition Dubs it as Development Terrorism
The CPI(M) committed the cardinal sin for a communist party by launching an agitation to counter the popular agitation of the ‘Vayalkkilikal’! The magnitude of the CPI(M)’s insensitivity can...
SP-BSP Alliance Unnerves BJP Leadership
The announcement made by BSP national president Mayawati after the Rajya Sabha polls that the alliance between her party and Samajwadi Party would continue till 2019. Mayawati said that...
SC Dilutes Scheduled Castes & Tribes Act Drastically: Country-Wide Demand for Immediate Judicial Correction
A shocking judgement of the Supreme Court on the Scheduled Castes & Tribes Act and a weekly round-up of the major decisions of the courts in India as also...
Conflict Resolution in the Face of Trade War Unleashed by the US is a Tightrope Walk for the New Delhi Meet
Narendra Modi said that Doha round of talks was yet to be implemented and made a case for countering the challenges posted to the multilateral trading system. He emphasised...
Pandavas Metaphor of Rahul Gandhi Might Work: Congress Pitches 2019 as Mahabharata of Truth
The Congress, trying to come out of one of the worst crisis it has faced in its 133-year-long history, used the 84th plenary in Delhi to set an agenda...
A Felt-Need to Refound the Universities That Failed us
India’s colonial past gave birth to the modern education system where ‘academically trained minds’ were supposed to serve the British Empire, not to challenge them. In fact, in current...