To justify the grave improprieties it has committed, the Eleventh Finance Commission falls back on a minor entry in the Constitution which permits the commission to consider any other matter referred...
A Calcutta Diary
The press and the electronic media in Calcutta are currently engaged to persuade the middle class to cross over to accepting as gospel truth fabrications cut out of the wholecloth. The centre of...
India's big-brotherly dominance could be an objective reality in several of her neighbouring states, acting as a roadblock to the emergence of peace in the real sense with nations across our borders...
It is faith which enables the mobilisation of courage without which the goal will remain as distant as ever. Even in the current Indian milieu, faith will continue to be at work despite the...
The government of India signed the Marrakesh Treaty and Indian agriculture is therefore supposed to be under the total discipline of the World Trade Organisation. The treaty has transferred, without...
Those in the poorer parts of the world have cause for glee. The misfortune of the better placed in any circumstances gladdens the heart of the weaker sections. Some positive effects could actually...
Some years ago, in order to prevent the CPI(M) and its associates from continuously winning elections in West Bengal, the suggestion was mooted to import not only poll personnel and supervisory...
Who are the people who will forgather to frustrate the alleged conspiracy of the intransigent Luddites, bent on blocking the telecommunications revolution in the country? One has to define 'people'...
Pitambar Pant was a proud man, but this pride was an echo of his pride in the nation and of the confidence he felt in the nation's ability to chart out a course of independent economic development...
The game of cricket is part of the entire polity. It is the crooked Indian politicians who have debauched the economy and provided the principal inspiration for the downfall of cricketers. And if no...
In a large number of middle class homes, the children have departed for foreign shores, a fair majority to the United States. Their parents had devoted the best years of their lives and the bulk of...
The prime minister's near-open appeal to all groups of 'militants' in Kashmir to join the peace parleys comes much too late in the day. The invitation should have gone out at least 20 years ago. Now...
It is a national malady of the most sickening kind to convert into icons hoary old men after they kick the bucket. A large proportion of the nation's energy and resources are spent in observing birth...
Cliches such as hope and disappointment perhaps do not impress personalities of the timber of Paul Sweezy. They remain ensconced in their integrity, and that is the reward they enjoy the most.
