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PoliticsSocial upsurge
THE outcome of the fiercely contested Bihar assembly polls has given a new direction to Indian politics to open avenues for mobilisation of...
Global ScanChina aspires to match up to the US while India merely wants to reach where China is today
Home Minister P Chidambaram’s remarks at a recent panel discussion reflected India’s obsession with measuring its economic development with a Chinese yardstick. China...
GovernanceHouse of wax?
If the media took hardly any notice of the latter half of Parliament’s Budget session, it was not because nothing of import was...
CorruptionBlackmail at Jantar Mantar
Both sides were so keen to show a negotiated end to the impasse that they forgot some elementary aspects. Will India pay the...
Cover StoryIs nothing sacred?
In 1995, addressing the AICC session, Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao had lamented the fact that the economic reform regime lacked a human...
GovernanceTemples of new India
In the coming decade, a major challenge for the Manmohan Singh government is the expansion of university education in order to churn out...
ANALYSISCATCHING THE TIGRESS BY THE TAIL
The laudable objective of providing specific representation in legislatures to women ran into rough weather because the main proponents of the Constitutional Amendment...
SecurityThe penal path…to
Many politicians with a shallow understanding of the human psyche believe that every evil in society can be cured by legal measures intended...
GovernanceThe nadir that is India
The system is burdened both by the flaws imposed from above and by the exaggerated demands of those it is intended to serve...
ElectionThrough the Lucknow darwaza
Accountability has dislodged sectarianism – that is the message behind the Congress revival in UP During the past two decades, the Congress, which...
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