Arun Srivastava

Indian state, as guaranteed and obligated under the Constitution has the legal responsibility to protect the right of lives of its citizens. If it feels that an individual is involved in criminal activities, in that case the activity of…

As part of his pan-India vision, Rahul Gandhi has executed his ambitious programme to weed out BJP’s sleeper cells within Congress ranks and hand over the functioning of the party into the hands of the ideologically-oriented young leaders.…

Bihar has always been a hard nut for the BJP, precisely for the saffron ecosystem. The more the saffron brigade strives and tries to exploit the existing social and caste contradictions, more it gets alienated from the mainstream politics…

The National Democratic Alliance meet of Wednesday had convoluted implications. It was meant to evolve a mechanism to counter opposition narratives, primarily to work out a to protect BJP strongman Amit Shah from Congress from attacks on…

Villagers of Markadwadi, a small village in Solapur of Maharashtra holding a mock poll for “reelecting” their representative using ballot papers on December 3, apparently might be construed as expression of distrust over the functioning of…

It is ironic that BJP which ten years back claimed itself as the party with a difference having high level of discipline is facing indiscipline and factional infighting in most of the states after the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. Since the…

Senior BJP leaders engaging in solecism in Uttar Pradesh and Bengal certainly can not be described as factional feud. Instead it unravels the contagious malaise that afflicts the party, endangering its current level of functioning. It may…

General election results in India have always been extraordinary and have thrown new set of political leaders. This year’s polls while were a moral victory for the INDIA bloc and marked the setback to communal politics, it also threw two…

After a long gap of more than 50 years Bihar is once again witnessing emergence of class war though of not that magnitude and dimension that the state witnessed in early seventies. The basic character of upper caste oppression continues to…

While Narendra Modi’s declaration that he would be sworn for the third time as the prime minister has enthused his bhakts, it has, at the same time, disenchanted the top RSS leaders as they feel that this message is primarily aimed at…

The role of State Bank of India in suppressing information about the Supreme Court-struck down electoral bonds has been well-exposed. Now more evidence of SBI’s ‘political mandate’ is emerging. For no rhyme or reason, an inhouse economist…

Canadian Prime Minister Justine Trudeau is NOT a liberal. Liberals used to believe in liberty and conservatives believed in conserving it, that was the common-sense consensus we had in Canada. Justine Trudeau does not believe in liberty, he…

Aggressive Rahul Gandhi in his exertion to expose the allegory of Narendra Modi of being the real face of Hindu and Hindutva got himself ensnared into the trap laid down by RSS.

OPPOSITION PARTIES ARE HANDICAPPED TO CHALLENGE NITISH Three decade old tryst of the RJD with the highly caste sensitive Bihar politics suffered the first ever worst jolt with the founder of the party, former union minister and vice…

TRADE WAR WILL HURT INDIA, WON’T SOLVE THE BORDER ISSUE Reminiscent to the Swadeshi movement of pre Independence times, India is witnessing a new movement to boycott the Chinese goods. But the character and cultural implication of both the…

CORBYNITES NEED DEEP INTROSPECTION FOR A TURN-AROUND Electoral compulsions and the impulse to keep the rightist forces in good humour have witnessed fundamental transformation of the UK’s Labour Party. The party has decided to divorce the…

APEX COURT DID NOT GUARANTEE WAGES FOR LOCKDOWN PERIOD It is better not to be pessimist. But one thing is certain that to what extent the latest intervention of Supreme Court will help the workers seeking refuge in their native places,…

COVID-19 COULD CAUSE FAMINE IN ABOUT THREE DOZEN COUNTRIES The head of World Food Program David Beasley cautioned the UN Security Council last week of the hunger pandemic that the world was facing. He warned that this could push the global…

DHARAVI’S CORONA CRISIS HAS BRITISH MEDIA GOING BONKERS The Dharavi father knows his children’s Lakshman Rekha. A rope strung across the entrance to his canvas and tin shanty in Asia’s largest slum. His children stand behind the rope. The…

MODI’S ATTEMPT TO GAG CORONA DATA OFFSET BY SUPREME COURT At a time when the international media has been unfailingly scrutinising the role of their respective governments in fighting the dreaded coronavirus, Prime Minister Narendra Modi…

MPS SCEPTICAL OF PARTY’S FUTURE WITHOUT TOTAL REVAMP While UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is contemplating to enforce lockdown by the police, as it has become imperative with people not taking seriously the preventive measure of social…

NO HEADWAY IN STRENGTHENING ANTI-NDA FRONT IN THE STATE The relation between the Congress and the RJD has never been affable under the stewardship of Tejashvi Yadav, the person in hurry to govern Bihar. With Congress nursing soft corner…

BREXIT DAY MARKS THE START OF A PROLONGED AND PAINFUL SEPARATION United Kingdom leaving European Union in the midnight of January 31, has been the most consequential event in recent British political history. While Boris Johnson’s yes…

UDDHAV SHOULD FOLLOW HIM BY RELEASING BHIM-KOREGAON PRISONERS While Hemant Soren the chief minister of Jharkhand just after assuming the office decided to withdraw the Pathalgadi sedition case in the maiden cabinet decision, the…

CRISIS OF EXISTENCE FACING THE POLITICAL ESTABLISHMENT OF BRITAIN It is unlikely that the UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson will keep his promise made to the Britons that he would “get Brexit done” coinciding with the x-Mas. The…