K Raveendran

WITH NO OPPOSITION, THEY HAVE TO FIGHT IT THEMSELVES It is high time the government’s decontrol of petroleum products is challenged in the court. The decontrol, which has its declared intention of leaving the prices to market forces rather…

IT NEEDS A MOVEMENT BIGGER THAN FREEDOM STRUGGLE Nationalist elements have called for a ‘boycott China’ movement in the wake of Chinese border incursions in Ladakh. But it is clear that independence from China would take a bigger struggle…

MORE SAFE HAVEN INVESTMENTS FLOW INTO YELLOW METAL Gold prices hit record highs last week, with 10 gm of the metal costing over Rs 48,000. Prices have since scaled back a little, but continue to be at multi-year highs. Gold is perhaps the…

LOCKDOWN IMPACT FITS INTO A PATTERN OF FAILURES Amit Shah’s is known to be his master’s voice. So when he admitted the other day that there may have been lapses on the part of the government in dealing with the Covid pandemic, he must have…

REVERSE MIGRATION NEGATES MUCH-HYPED COVID SUCCESS Every life lost by the migrant labour in the wake of the lockdown must be considered a martyrdom in the country’s defence against coronavirus. Their numbers must, therefore, be added to…

IT REMAINS TO BE SEEN IF MODI STIMULUS CAN TOUCH THEM The Covid-19 pandemic has revealed the existence of the Other India, which has always been in existence, but remained invisible all along. The Other India comprises millions of migrant…

REAL CHALLENGE WILL BEGIN AFTER LOCKDOWN EXIT World leaders, including Microsoft founder Bill Gates, have praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his timely decision to enforce a national lockdown to fight the Covid pandemic. Europe and…

THIS JUST HAPPENED IN GLOBAL CRUDE FUTURES MARKET Imagine you stopping at a petrol pump to fill the tank on your way back home; instead of you paying the pump operator, he hands you down a couple of 500 rupee notes. Your brain will simply…

A CLEAR CASE OF ARUN JAITLEY’S CLASS IC EXPOSITION Some of former Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi’s judgments, particularly towards the latter part of his tenure, had raised eyebrows as they were seen by many as suffering faults in…

YOUTH MORE WORRIED ABOUT EXTRA BURDEN THAN SECULARISM No other cause in recent times has evoked such spontaneous participation by the public as the campaign against the Citizenship Amendment Act. The previous occasion when this happened…

ALL HOPES PINNED ON EXPECTED MARKET STABILITY The spurt in global oil prices could not have come at a worse time for India. The benchmark Brent crude at the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) futures market traded at $67.02 a barrel at the…

NEW RULES THREATEN FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT AND FREEDOM The next three months are going to be crucial from the point of view of individual privacy. The government has informed the Supreme Court, hearing a plea by social media giants Facebook and…

A unique feature of all environmental reports is that they are never received by the governments, for which these are essentially meant, in the same earnestness with which those reports are prepared. There is a complete disconnect between…

It is dangerous to claim that whenever a court decision is against you, it is threat to democracy and whenever it suits you, it is democracy at work. This is what former home and finance minister P Chidambaram has done. Having exercised…

Modi government continues to push its programme for getting Aadhaar linked to social media accounts of users, such as Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp etc., in the name of fighting fake news, defamatory articles, pornographic materials,…