Empowering the people
Over the past ten days, we have watched with increasing concern, a systematic whipping up of passions targeted against student activists of Jawaharlal Nehru University. Six students of the University…
Far too many of us have no idea how easy it is, to get up and do something! Raising your voice on behalf of others, gives profound pleasure (somewhere in…
A new study by Abusaleh Shariff and Anirudh Krishna has brought fresh insights on whether poverty is decreasing or increasing. The study points out that the usual “head count ratio”…
Budget 2010 is being widely praised in the media and by business leaders as an “inclusive” budget, a “budget with lot of takeaways”. But this is not true. If all…
Several political parties are pushing for an amendment to the Representation of the People Act to declare “paid news” as an electoral malpractice. This issue of paid news came up…
The recent UK elections and the wheelings and dealings after that gave a feeling of déjà vu for us in India. The election results led to a hung parliament with…
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh recently presented his government’s report on completion of the first year of the second stint of the UPA government. The report is pretentiously called the ‘The…
A good 26 years after the horrific tragedy in Bhopal, the worst industrial accident in the world, a trial court has given its verdict. The verdict has made the entire…
The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 provides the right to education, atleast on paper, for children between 6 to 14 years of age. Elementary education…
The British Prime Minister David Cameron’s visit is not a joyful event for the Indian people. In fact we have to look at it warily for several reasons. He is…