What if there is a hung parliament?
By Amulya Ganguli Conventional wisdom has it that the current polls will not produce a clear-cut result as in 2014. The reason is that there is no definite trend for or against any party at…
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Commentary
Ram’s birth in Ayodhya: Memorable view from sanctum sanctorum
By Saeed Naqvi There was a singular absence of frenzy last week in Ayodhya on the occasion of Ram Navmi. As the campaign for election 2019 rose to a crescendo, one would have expected the…
Balanced approach essential on foreign currency debt
By Taponeel Mukherjee Recent news about an increase in Indian corporates and state entities issuing dollar bonds is welcome news, especially since it clearly shows investor appetite for lending to credible Indian business models. However,…
Redacted Russia probe report to add to collusion controversy
By Arul Louis New York, April 16 (IANS) The release of the report of the investigation into allegations that Russia colluded with President Donald Trump’s campaign in the 2016 election that is scheduled for Thursday…
India needs a strong leader, strong nation
By Jayanta Ghosal I am a human being – Homo sapiens. But does that mean I am poor, brutish, nasty and small? That is what Thomas Hobbes had thought. Machiavelli’s prince had also said that…
The flawed narrative on Kashmir
By D.C. Pathak The debate on Kashmir has produced a crop of ‘experts’ whose analysis is in many cases tinted by their political alignment. In the run-up to the 2019 General Election, the issue of…
IPL versus Box Office
By Vinod Mirani Films, when released, are sensitive to any and everything that may affect its potential. The box office is sensitive to just about everything that happens outside of a film auditorium. Say, a…
Vivek Oberoi’s Modi act loses steam & esteem
By Subhash K Jha The unexpected clamping-down on the much-debated biopic on Prime Minister Narendra Modi would affect Vivek Oberoi much more than anyone else associated with the film. And not only because Vivek is/was…
An unsatisfactory week for the BJP
By Amulya Ganguli The week when the polling began wasn’t a good one for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). For one, the party ran afoul of the Election Commission on Narendra Modis biopic and a…
Priyanka preparing UP for 2022, Rahul the Congress for 2024
By Saeed Naqvi It is true that there are no permanent enemies or permanent friends in politics. But this Machiavellian law is clearly not applicable when a coalition of parties is in the midst of…
Political parties need to focus on issue-based election campaigning
BY Amit Kapoor The Indian elections that kicked off on Thursday are a democratic exercise the likes of which the world has never seen. In the worlds largest democratic practice, around 900 million voters -…
Focus needs to be on creatng hard and soft infra
By Taponeel Mukherjee It is crucial for the government to keep pushing towards more effective growth-oriented policy framing and implementation in India. The focus must be on creating both “hard” and “soft” infrastructure while facilitating…
20 killed in bombing at Pakistan market
Islamabad, April 12 (IANS) At least 20 people were killed, almost half of them belonging to the Shia Hazara minority, and 48 injured when a bomb hidden in a sack of potatoes exploded in a…
Enclave dwellers vote in large numbers in Cooch Behar
Cooch Behar (West Bengal), April 11 (IANS) Despite all their woes, the residents of the 51 former Bangladeshi enclaves in West Bengal’s Cooch Behar district exercised their franchise in a peaceful manner amid instances of…
Digital Content Renders Cinematograph Act Obsolete
By Vinod Mirani When a fad invades India, it does so in hordes. May it be mobile manufacturers, car makers, and so on and so forth. But, now, we have a line-up of streaming content…
Congress manifesto a mirage not reality
By Jayanta Ghosal After I finished reading the 55-page Congress manifesto for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, I suddenly remembered a scene in the famous political satire British sitcom, ‘Yes Prime Minister’. It was set…
Technology for security
By D.C. Pathak I had the benefit recently of listening to a well established American IT expert on the challenges for security strategists in these times of a literal tsunami of technological advancements. He brought…
Mission 2019: Ensuring payments and price transparency
By Taponeel Mukherjee The importance of the flow of capital into the power and housing sectors in India cannot be overemphasised. Recent developments in both sectors once again bring to the fore the critical issues…
Will BJP listen to L.K. Advani’s advice?
By Amulya Ganguli It would have been better if L.K. Advani had given his excellent advice to his party men about their attitude towards other parties before being denied a Lok Sabha ticket. Now, it…
Rather than NYAY, strengthen public services landscape
By Amit Kapoor & Manisha Kapoor The idea of launching Nyuntam Aay Yojana, a cash transfer scheme that intends to provide Rs 72,000 per year to the poorest 20 per cent Indian families, by the…