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Rafale purchase a bad bargain for IAF

The final verdict on purchase of Rafale aircraft from France is yet to be delivered when issues like allotment of off-set deal or pricing of the plane are settled but there is no doubt that the country and Indian Air Force are major losers in the deal. For instance t...

RAHUL HAS GOT THE CHANCE TO BE AN AGENT OF CHANGE

COMMON MINIMUM PROGRAMME HAS TO ACT AS A CATALYST
With the last session of the 16th Lok Sabha ending on February 13, the stage is set for the holding of Lok Sabha elections in April/May 2019. The opposition parties have at last decided on drafting a common minimum programme for fighting the ruling NDA led by the BJP a...

The Unbearable Lightness of Hardik Pandya And The Steady Flow of Market

A plethora of articles have found space surrounding the recent comments made by Hardik Pandya on the popular television show, Koffee with Karan which has landed him into trouble in the cricket world. Although his cricket future does not seem to be in jeopardy at the mo...

Rafale Deal: It's Modi government vs. Indian nation

The mystery on the Rafale Aircraft Deal is standing right there even after the deal has been moving around the governments and their leaders of India and France, various governmental institutions and their officials on both sides, weapon companies and their masters, me...

A cruel joke with Jammuities

Jammu festival
A much publicised Jammu Festival was organized by the Department of Tourism, Govt of Jammu and Kashmir from February 8th to 10th. So far as the hoardings and other publicity modes are concerned, the event has been named as 'Jammu Festival' Maha Ustav 2019, but there s...

Falling food prices hitting rural economy

Farmers are losing due to lack of marketing
People are generally happy when prices are low; they feel even better off when prices are falling. But that could be a nightmare for the economic policy makers. Rising prices can be fought back; but it is impossible to tackle falling prices. Japan, for example, is figh...

Spain and Catalonia

It's been a busy week in Spain. On Tuesday twelve Catalan leaders of the attempted secession from Spain in 2017 went on trial in Madrid, charged with rebellion, sedition and the misuse of public funds. And on Wednesday the Spanish government fell when two small Catalan...

Looming water crisis and need for cooperation

There is a complex link between water and conflicts. Despite the fact that water resources have rarely been the sole source of violent conflicts among different nations or empires in the past, the growing economic, environmental and political developments seem to sugg...

Why North-East citizens rebel

Imagine all South Indian States uniting on a platform of ethnic difference from the North, as C.N. Annadurai briefly contemplated once upon a time. Something similar is happening in the North-East. Ethnically, culturally and historically, the North-Eastern States have ...

Congress - Left parties pre-poll alliance likely in some states

The Congress and Left parties are keen on forging a pre-poll tactical electoral alliance in some key states to ensure avoidance of a split in anti-BJP votes paving the way for a coalition of opposition parties to defeat the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led National Dem...

Can stories of epics open doors of modern technology

The last five years have seen history being rewritten and acrimonious claims in the Saffron Parivar that India was at the cutting edge of warfare, pushing India to the commanding heights of advances in science and technology. Does rewriting history impart knowledge and...

On this International Mother Language Day- February 21…

Each year, as the International Mother Language Day- February 21, nears I get somewhat agitated and restless. Why? Because I have been directly or indirectly deprived by the establishment, from learning my mother language, Urdu. Yes, as I an Indian Muslim I feel upset ...

Moving towards kakistocracy

It will be difficult for the government to achieve its objectives in an atmosphere of political confrontation.
THE fall has been steep. Not that we had a very competent leadership in the past but the PTI government's rush to what is termed as a 'kakistocracy'(a state or society governed by its least suitable or competent citizens) is alarming. It is not so much about the absenc...

Where should I raise issues on NGMA's working…In a private dinner party? Amol Palekar

The veteran theatre person and film-maker was cut short by the organisers when as a guest speaker in Mumbai, he expressed concern over Government policy changes vis-à-vis NGMA. There couldn't have been a better platform than the National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA) t...

Kashmir and the politics of punishment

With the brutal 'drawing and quartering' of the domestic servant Robert-François Damiens, who attempted the assassination of King Louis XV of France in 1757, to 'make the amende honorable before the main door of the Church of France' started the slow disappearance of t...

Digital immortality

Imagine a version of you that could live forever. Your family and friends are able to interact with a digital-you. It doles out advice-even when you're gone. Augmented Eternity app lets you create a digital-persona that can interact on your behalf, after you're dead. W...

Polarisation on religious lines can threaten India's unity

The framers of the Constitution have ensured that all communities and religions should thrive. It is for this reason that when India was divided on basis of religion in 1947, Muslim majority Jammu and Kashmir chose to be a part of India. It happened because Kashmiri...

Withdrawing cases in UP

Several leaders of the ruling BJP, were named in the 125 cases withdrawn. Communal clashes in Muzaffarnagar and the adjoining areas in the second half of 2013 had claimed 60 lives and displaced more than 40,000 people most of them Muslim, needless to add. The state gov...

Mamata emerges as a focal point of the national opposition

The sordid drama that started unfolding with a carload of CBI officials appearing out of the blue in front of the Kolkata Police Commissioner's residence in the city on February 3, 2019, with the attempt to barge into the building turned out to be a massive confrontati...
 

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