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Centre's Floundering Tactics

The military and political line advanced in Kashmir by the Modi government has had catastrophic social, political and security consequences. But the government is not willing to change its tactic for reasons of expediency.

Trump On the Rampage

The world is being pushed to the brink by the Donald Trump administration, which is recklessly ordering the use of missiles and other lethal weapons in the American armoury against the designated enemies of the United States. 

Reckless in White House

The U.S. strikes in Syria and Afghanistan seem to be more about Trump acquiring a “presidential” aura and legitimacy than about making the world a safer place. Another U.S. President bombs another country, at a terrible human cost elsewhere.

China's Burden

China Seems to Be Proposing to Serve as the Guardian of the North Korean Regime, Which Is Under Threat of Attack From the U.s. Because of Its Defiant Nuclear Tests, Provided It Denuclearises.  

Salman Khan's Hit And Run Case: Trial and Errors

The actor Salman Khan’s acquittal in a 2002 hit-and-run case raises more questions than it answers. 

Trump's Speech: ‘Carnage' & Resistance

President Donald Trump’s inauguration speech was bleak and dominated by descriptions of “American carnage” and many of the stands remained empty. But the protests that followed the day after were animated by the spirit of resistance.

Despair And Unrest in Mexico

There is anger in Mexico over the violence that snuffs out lives but does not get investigated. However, there is little hope that the state will act. 

A Fight for their Land

The mounting opposition to land acquisition for the Mallanasagar project, which threatens to submerge 14 villages, is turning out to be the first serious political challenge to Telangana Chief Minister. 

The Myth of Growth

Economic growth in the last 25 years after liberalisation has been riding on a credit bubble. It has not made the manufacturing or exports sector robust, unlike in other high-growth economies. Nor has it delivered any benefits to those steeped in poverty and deprivation.

All In The Name Of News

In the out-and-out corporate media environment that exists today, market-friendly value systems are a natural consequence and crony capitalist behaviour by media luminaries is par for the course. 

Cold War cloud

The NATO summit in Warsaw reinforces its collective defence strategy with Russia and China as its targets. 

Karnataka's Troubles

The Supreme Court’s directive to release water to Tamil Nadu arouses strong feelings in Karnataka which is yet to recover from two consecutive drought years and has had a deficit monsoon this year.

The BJP Plays The Communal Card In Uttar Pradesh

The Bharatiya Janata Party plays the communal card in Uttar Pradesh, indicating that desperation has begun to consume the party as the Assembly election process progresses.

Tragedy And Farce

In an action-filled fortnight, the Supreme Court sends V.K. Sasikala to prison but her family takes control of the ruling party in Tamil Nadu and her Chief Minister wins a trust vote in a riotous environment. More fireworks are on the cards.

Indomitable Spirit

Gauri Lankesh worked tirelessly to keep her father’s legacy, “Lankesh Patrike”, alive, but she went beyond journalism and entered the realm of activism with the rise of Hindutva in Karnataka, most notably in the State’s coastal region.

Refusing To Die

Gauri Lankesh’s views will not die because they are intrinsic to freedom and humaneness. And her killers are confused because they do not know how they can kill any better.

Guided By Passion

The Justice Karnan case has highlighted again the urgent need to amend the law and procedure on the exercise of suo motu contempt proceedings by the Supreme Court and High Courts

A Controversial Career

Since his elevation as a judge to the Madras High Court in 2001, Justice C.S. Karnan has been involved in many a controversy relating to allegations of discrimination against him because he is a Dalit.

Rural Revolt

Farmers in the BJP-ruled States of Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra,Haryana and Uttar Pradesh, distressed by demonetisation and government inaction, rise in revolt and spoil the Narendra Modi government’s ambitious third anniversary celebrations.

Diminishing Returns

Farmers’ organisations in Punjab and Haryana are determined to continue their agitation.

Turning Sour?

India’s thriving dairy sector, which provides farmers with an alternative source of income, is beset by challenges, including the government’s new restrictive rules on cattle trade.

March Of Hindu Rashtra

The rise in violence against Muslims across the country in the name of gau raksha is full of dire portent when seen against the subtle push the Central and the BJP-ruled State governments are giving to the idea of Hindu Rashtra.

Debating Secularism

Secularism is a priceless objective to strive for and defend given the grim challenges it faces from non-state actors, often with the connivance of the state.

Symbolic Contest

The opposition fails to put up a show of unity ahead of the presidential election, while the BJP attempts to foil the criticism about its uppercaste preferences by choosing a Dalit candidate. 

Taxing Times

The launch of the Goods and Services Tax amidst great fanfare, but without adequate preparation, marks a continuum with demonetisation and threatens the viability of millions of small and medium enterprises. 

Hatred Unleashed

In the past three years, mob violence, including lynching, particularly by cow vigilantes, has almost become a strategy to intimidate Muslims.

Wrecking the System

The liquidity crisis of unprecedented dimensions that the Modi government has unleashed shocks the economy, drives people to despair and ruin and threatens consequences that have not been fully fathomed yet.

All Pain for the Majority

The impact of the measures on the farming community, the poor and the lower middle classes was hugely underestimated by the political establishment, sundry pundits, the media and a large section of the untutored or sycophantic elite.

After the shock

The beating to cash-driven sectors like gold and real estate notwithstanding, Indian industry is gung-ho about the Prime Minister’s decision to derecognise notes.

BJP's Show

The Shiv Sena gets more seats in the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai, but the BJP emerges the winner in the civic elections in Maharashtra.