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The Cry for Bank Privatisaton
POLITICAL NOTEBOOKOne can of worms after another is opening in the banking industry. If a diamond merchant has defrauded public sector banks of over eleven thousand crore rupees, or a liquor baron of...
View ArticlePrabodh Panda Is No More
On February 27, 2018, former Lok Sabha Member Prabodh Panda, 72, who was the Secretary of the CPI's West Bengal State Council, breathed his last after a massive heart attack in the morning at the CPI's...
View ArticleThe Emergency Era and Surrender of Judiciary
BOOK REVIEWby Hemaadri Singh RanaThe Case That Shook India by Prashant Bhushan; Penguin Random House India Pvt. Ltd.; 2017; pp. 314; ISBN: 9780670090051; Rs 499.Fortytwo years ago, a High Court...
View ArticleMight of Technology
by Samit KarThe might of Technology had been a major pre-condition in the rise and fall of Socialism in many countries of the world including the Soviet Union and East European nations. But there is...
View ArticleRecalling Goa's Opinion Poll
We celebrate this year the Golden Jubilee of the Opinion Poll. After its liberation there were two opposite points of view regarding the status for Goa. The Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party wanted the...
View ArticleVenezuela Lurches into Further Crisis: OAS Fails to Consensually Assist The...
by Gautam SenThe Venezuelan Government, headed by President Nicolas Maduro, has been contending with a severe political and economic crisis practically for the past nearly two years. There is a huge...
View ArticleUnion Budget 2018-19: Alleviating Farmers' Distress
by P.K. Bhargava and Jyoti BhargavaIn the process of diversification of the Indian economy, the contribution of agriculture to GDP has tended to decline and presently its share is only around 17 per...
View ArticleHow not to Facelift Culture
IMPRESSIONSIndian literature is the richer for the election of Chandrasekhara Kambar as President of the Sahitya Akademi. The sad part of the story is that the distinguished Oriya writer, Pratibha Ray,...
View ArticleA Curious Case of ‘Hajamat' : FRDI Bill Bail-in Section 52
The Financial Resolution and Deposit Insurance (FRDI) Bill, 2017 is intended to resolve the financial distress that may develop in financial institutions (called “financial service providers”),...
View ArticleLaughing Matter!
[Recently there was a hue and cry over the laughter emitted by Ms Renuka Chowdhury during the speech of the Prime Minister in the Rajya Sabha. Laughter or a cackle is a freedom of expression. But, if...
View ArticleBank Scam: The Oldest and the Newest
About 178 years ago, Calcutta saw the first bank scam of the subcontinent. A duo comprising one Raj Kishore Datta and his son-in-law, Dwarka Nath Mitra, plundered a bank which, interestingly, was...
View ArticleChoksi (Vigilance)
The Bank was observing choksi, soKnowing when the ChowkidarWould turn his back,A wink went to good friend, Nirav,Who walked in to pick up the sack.His subsequent stop was Davos whereAmong the most...
View ArticleNirav Modi Fraud: Tip of the Iceberg
The world of finance is a world of mystery. The common man is not in a position to understand its intricacies. In the age of domination of finance capital under neo-liberalism, financial scams...
View ArticleKashmir: Setting the Priorities
From N.C.'s WritingsIn 1967, that is, more than fifty years ago, N.C. visited the Kashmir Valley for a few days and held detailed discussions with a wide cross-section of opinion-makers and political...
View ArticleIndia, Pakistan and Mobocracy
by Shiraz SheikhHere is a tale of two countries not only with shared genesis but also with divergent experiences of regime types. At one end is India which was built with pluralism under a democratic...
View ArticleJudiciary in Bangladesh under Pressure
The judiciary in Bangladesh is so much under pressure that it is difficult to believe the five-year sentence given to former Prime Minister and Opposition leader Khaleda Zia is genuine. The judges are...
View ArticleWho is Responsible for India's Partition and Kashmir Imbroglio?
by Ram PuniyaniPolitical tendencies not only distort and ‘present the past' to suit their political agenda; they can go to any extent to even lie about the events and their interpretation. ‘Facts are...
View ArticleNilabh Mishra Will Be Dearly Missed
TRIBUTEAt a time when the voice of justice and social concerns is getting weaker in the media, the sudden departure of Neelabh Mishra, Editor of National Herald, at the age of only 57 is extremely...
View ArticleAAP's Winter of Worries : ‘Loss' in an ‘Office of Profit'
by Sanjay MishraIntroductionAfter allegations of corruption and favouring two businessmen for the Rajya Sabha seats over a founder member and a popular leader of the party, Kumar Vishwas, the Aam Aadmi...
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Between Hope and Anxiety
EDITORIALThe mystery surrounding superstar Sridevi's untimely demise—manifest in the UAE authorities' “comprehensive investigation” that resulted in inordinate delay in the release of her body—is...
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