Of Pizzas and Governance
Hemashri likens the money back Pizza policy of Domino’s to the government departments. Sadly, no one is accountable for the huge delays – in some cases to nearly 100...
Status of Childescents in India Worrying, says CRY Report
The report coming out on the World Population Day, last week, highlights that there are nearly a 100million childescents between 15 and 18 years in India, and this huge population...
Congress-BJP Confrontation will Badly hit Passing of Bills
The political temperature has soared so much that any talk of cooperation being mentioned by the ruling party leaders for passing the bills, is being dealt with contempt by...
Manmohan Singh was a Real Reformer with Innovative Policies
Manmohan Singh enlivened the service sector by ceding several tax concessions. Software companies sprang up, placing the country a pivot for global software exports. Notwithstanding Modi’s slow pace in...
May Day Celebrations in Trans-Yamuna Area of Allahabad
On the occasion of the 132nd anniversary of May Day and in the 200th birth anniversary year of Karl Marx workers across the rural belt in trans-Yamuna paid homage...
Modi and Xi Need to Focus on Trade Issues
India and China can no longer remain cut away from each other on the great divide of the mighty Himalaya. A cursory glance at geopolitical theatres of the absurd...
Anti-Trafficking Bill is the Worst Victim of Lok Sabha Logjam
The long-pending legislative initiative by Women and Child Welfare Minister Maneka Gandhi — The Trafficking of Persons (Prevention, Protection and Rehabilitation) Bill, 2018 — could not be introduced at...
Cambridge Analytica, Rahul Gandhi on Social Media, NaMo App and Psychographics: The Debate Thickens
In the wake of the statement made by Ravi Shanker Prasad on data leak by Facebook, it is worth debating – where does psychographics take us? Is data privacy...
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...
Supreme Court Finally Upholds Right to Die with Dignity: Living Wills Recognised and Guidelines Framed
A path-breaking judgement of the Supreme Court recognises the right to die with dignity as a Fundamental Right and other major judgements from various courts of India. Here’s a...