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Test Time for Judiciary
9 March 2016, by Anil NauriyaIt has been a time of test for the judiciary. When the political system is in a crisis, pressures increase upon the judiciary in the sense that conflicts to which the political system gives rise or is unable to contain assume a juridical form (...) -
Union Budget 2016-17:: Budgetary Calculus: How Real is the Pro-Poor Bias?
9 March 2016, by Arun KumarIntroduction
All budgets are not only economic but also political instruments for the party in power. The Union Budget 2016-17 is no exception. Its message is that the NDA Government is strongly in favour of the marginalised sections. (...) -
Economic Survey 2015-16: India under the Shadow of Neoliberalism
9 March 2016, by Girish MishraEven though the neoliberal dispensation has collapsed all over the world, its votaries in the corridors of power in India are behaving like the proverbial boy on the burning deck. They believe in the mantra of TINA (there is no alternative). It (...) -
A Book-keeper’s Exercise
9 March 2016, by Nikhil ChakravarttyFrom N.C.’s Writings
It’s like a political rope trick, Chidambaram’s maiden Budget as the Finance Minister of the United Front Government. Everyone from V.P. Singh and Somnath Chatterjee to the captains of the corporate giants have praised it (...) -
Letter from Ex-Students of BHU against Dismissal of Prof Sandeep Pandey from IIT-BHU
9 March 2016To
Prof Girish Chandra Tripathi
Vice-Chancellor,
Banaras Hindu University,
Varanasi — 221005, UP
Copy to:
Director, IIT-BHU, Prof Rajeev Sangal, and
Dean of Faculty Affairs, IIT-BHU, Prof Dhananjay Pandey
Dear Sir,
We, the ex-students of (...) -
Why Afzal Guru evokes a Controversy Everytime
9 March 2016, by Sandeep PandeyIn the context of the recent event at the Jawaharlal Nehru University to mark the hanging of Afzal Guru in which JNU Students’ Union President Kanhaiya Kumar has been arrested on the charge of sedition, we must also consider why the controversy (...) -
A Danger to Democracy
9 March 2016, by Rajindar SacharThere is a figurative way of attributing intense stupidity to an individual or a political party in the idiom, ‘He is own worst enemy.’ This occurred to me by the idiotic way the BJP Central Government has handled the recent student protest at (...) -
Rise of Fascist Forces and Electronic Media
9 March 2016, by Barun Das GuptaThe nature of the second BJP Government under Narendra Modi is getting exposed by the day. The object is to subvert the Constitution which declares India to be a ‘socialist secular democratic’ republic. Those who took office by swearing by the (...) -
The Road to Hell is paved with Good Intentions—like Reservations. But where’s Hell These Days?
9 March 2016, by T J S GeorgeIMPRESSIONS
For the crying babies of Haryana, the promise of milk was not enough. They kept crying violently for the actual delivery of their elixir. The inexperienced State Government was too scared to do anything, bringing Delhi into the (...) -
Putin can’t Bend like Beckam, Tensions with the US will Rise
9 March 2016, by M K BhadrakumarThe annual meeting of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), which is the successor organisation to the Soviet-era KGB is an important occasion to take the temperature in the ‘East-West’ relations. (The Cold War cliche is becoming useful once (...)
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