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“What is this life, if full of care, there is no time to stand and stare ”. What is it that you want from life? This question is variedly answered by most of us, but every answer sums up to one simple word – Happiness. What is a life’s…

The BJP-led NDA completed one year of its second term on 30 May, with senior party leaders, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP president JP Nadda listing the central government's achievements during the period.…

CHINA HAS GOT THE CHANCE OF REDEEMING ITSELF THROUGH PROMPT ACTIONS China and the coronavirus is all about markets. If in Wuhan, it was a ‘wet market’ where the virus got a foothold before taking off to climes across the world, the…

NEED TO PLUG MANY LOOPHOLES TO MAKE IT INCLUSIVE The Coronavirus pandemic has created an unprecedented situation around the world with states struggling to curb the spread of infection and treat the already infected people. The impact of…

G-20 MUST TAKE CARE OF PLIGHT OF POOREST 77 There is a massive problem of external debt building up for the third world, of which the recent Argentine debt crisis was only one manifestation. At the root of the problem is the collapse of…

PREPARATIONS START FOR LONG STRUGGLES TO PROTECT LABOUR RIGHTS The central trade unions of the country in a joint statement has asked all its members as also the workers of all industries, to observe protest day on July 3 to focus on the…

WITH MAYAWATI SIDING WITH BJP, SP MUST STRENGTHEN PARTY BASE The Samajwadi Party national president Akhilesh Yadav has made it clear that it would not enter into alliance with any party for the 2022 assembly elections. Yadav also made…

“What is this life, if full of care, there is no time to stand and stare”. What is it that you want from life? This question is variedly answered by most of us, but every answer sums up to one simple word – Happiness. What is a life’s…

INDIA'S NEIGHBOURHOOD POLICY IS FAILING From early this month, China suddenly escalated tension with India in Ladakh and Sikkim for reasons which are still unclear. Nepal has also chosen this time to claim some areas which are in India,…

JOURNALISTS HAVE A GRIM FUTURE IN POST-COVID ERA he reports about the imminent closure of various editions of Times of India and the shutdown of most bureau offices of the The New Indian Express in Kerala did not come as a surprise, though…

BSP SUPREMO CRITICAL OF CONGRESS MORE THAN THE BJP IN UTTAR PRADESH The Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati is known in Uttar Pradesh for her unpredictable twists and turns in choosing her allies. For her, survival in the continuing flux…

DIGITALLY INCLINED PROGRAMMES FOR LABOUR ARE NEEDED By Nilanjan Banik and Anurag Narayan Banerjee As economists we frequently have to encounter this question, “How long will it take for the economy to crawl back to normalcy?” As India…

POOR CHILDREN, WOMEN AND OLD ARE MOST VULNERABLE Nutrition is the most important issue to sustain life. It is all the more important for children who need special care and therefore special nutrients to grow. For a healthy nourishing diet…

MODI GOVT HAS MISSED THE BUS In light of COVID-19, the Finance Minister of India (“FM”) on May 13, 2020, announced a slew of incentives for the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (“MSMEs”). The directions for the MSMEs formed the first…

RIGHTWING AGENDA CHALLENGES SEVERITY OF COVID-19 When is science not actually scientific? One answer is that research which cherry-picks and manipulates facts to support a preconceived hypothesis is not truly scientific. Long after…

BOLSONARO TRYING TO TAKE HELP OF HIS FOES TO AVERT CRISIS Brazil’s Workers’ Party (PT) is set to file papers for the impeachment of far-right President Jair Bolsonaro over his handling of the Covid-19 crisis, saying that he “no longer…

CENTRE'S PRO-CORPORATE AGENDA BRINGS MORE WOES As the greatest man made humanitarian crisis since independence plays out across India, prevailing inequalities get intensified due to government policies and approaches during the arbitrarily…

BJP FOLLOWERS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR CREATING THIS MESS After the Israeli historian, Yuval Noah Harari, voiced concern over the emergence of the “inner demons” of hate, greed and ignorance among people in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic,…

What is this life, if full of care, there is no time to stand and stare What is it that you want from life? This question is variedly answered by most of us, but every answer sums up to one simple word – Happiness. What is a life’s worth…

ON HIS 203RD BIRTHDAY, KARL MARX IS THE RADICAL THINKER WE NEED Two centuries later since the birth of Karl Marx, the teachings of the Communist Manifesto are being further underlined by the coming of the coronavirus pandemic and its…

BROADBASED PI WILL FIGHT NEO-LIBERALISM AND AUTHORITARIANISM IN POST-COVID ERA A coalition of leading left wing intellectuals and political leaders led by Noam Chomsky, Bernie Sanders, Yanis Varoufakis and Naomi Klein officially launched…

SAFFRONS HAVE TO TAKE A CALL AFTER NORMALCY IS RESTORED Even as the BJP feels relieved that the protests against the citizenship law ended after the onset of the coronavirus menace, the party continues to perform a delicate balancing act…

BUT PULITZER BOARD HAS MYOPIC VISION ON INDIA The last week saw considerable international interest in matters India with ‘foreign bodies’ such as the Pulitzer taking a hand in “needling” India, giving credence to claims of the decades old…

AAROGYA SETU APP IS AN ARBITRARY INTRUSION INTO PRIVACY The Centre introduced the Aarogya Setu app last month ostensibly to keep track of corona virus infectees. It was clarified that the uploading of it in mobile phones was voluntary.…

The current pandemic has disrupted almost all industries and sectors. Thus, the following three concerns would probably top everyone’s mind today: 1. When will the pandemic be over? Pervasive lockdowns have slowed the virus, but a…