Union Budget 2015-16: In Pursuit of the PM's 'Make in India' Vision
by S.S. SangwanThe Central Budget 2015-16 appears to be focused on the Make-in-India and Skill-India vision of the Prime Minister rather than a balanced approach to appease all sections of the...
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Union Budget 2015-16:: Gender Budget: Unfulfilled Promises for Gender Equality?
by Shahla TabassumThe recent Budget for the year 2015-16 is very special. The Budget is presented every year by the Finance Minister in Parliament, and thus some people may ask: what is special about...
View ArticleDid People Opt for a High-Command Party? History Won't Wait for Kejriwal. Nor...
IMPRESSIONSThere are two reasons why the split in the Aam Aadmi Party should not worry the general public too much. One is that this is, after all, politics Indian desi-style; for all the hopes it...
View ArticleA Crisis in Governance
A deep somnolence, lack of direction and absence of commitment to the constitutionally directed philosophy of social justice seems to be enveloping the major existing political parties thereby...
View ArticleTowards Emotional Integration
Power makes strange bedfellows. Mufti Mohmmad Sayeed, who heads the Jammu and Kashmir Government, has joined hands with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Yet his victory in the State Assembly elections...
View ArticleReflections of a Socialist Feminist
The following article was written for Mainstream on the occasion of the International Women's Day (March 8) but could not be used earlier as it reached us late.I was sitting with a migrant worker from...
View ArticleVinod Mehta, On His Own Terms
TRIBUTEIn India, we never speak ill of the dead. Those who reviled Vinod Mehta, the founder-editor of Outlook news-weekly, in his lifetime, accusing him of being a courtier of 10, Janpath, the...
View ArticleCBI Court Summons Manmohan Singh
EDITORIALAs we go to press news has come that Congress leaders, with party President Sonia Gandhi in the foreground, marched this morning from the Akbar Road central headquarters of the Congress to...
View ArticleGreece - Caught Between Scylla and Charybdis: Europe and the Future for...
by Harsh KapoorLet us begin with some jottings from history. In our imagination Greece occupies the bedrock of key Western ideas with its first city states and the idea of democracy, but that was...
View ArticleBhagat Singh as I knew Him
Legendary freedom fighter and martyr Bhagat Singh's birth centenary was observed on September 28, 2007. On the occasion of the eightyfourth anniversary of his martyrdom, we are reproducing the...
View ArticleNot Lonely in Life or Alone in Death
TRIBUTEby Noor ZaheerThe show is over, the actors and director have taken the last bow and curtain call and from a crowded auditorium after the thunderous applause has died down, friends and...
View ArticleDr Rammanohar Lohia: A Tribute
I am certain that the life and activities of Dr Rammanohar Lohia, that remarkable socialist leader who left an indelible imprint on the Indian political scene in both the pre-indepen-dence period and...
View ArticleRemembering Lohia: A Legacy for the Left
Dr Rammanohar Lohia's 105th birth anniversary falls on March 23 this year. Since his birthday coincided with the day of martyrdom of Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru, he never wanted his followers to...
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UNION BUDGET 2015-16: Analysing the Estimated Budget: Where is the Plan for...
The Union Budget is prepared to execute the state policy and constitutional mandate of a sovereign republic. The Finance Minister leads the budgeting process and its control while the citizens develop...
View ArticleBihar: Laloo in Search of a New Political Pasture
by Arun SrivastavaLaloo Prasad Yadav's reluctance to allow his RJD legislators to join the Nitish Government has intrigued the political circles and the experts alike. Even his senior RJD colleagues...
View ArticleIs AAP going the Janata Way?
When movements convert themselves into political parties they lose their original shape. The ethos of collective leadership takes a backseat and personal assertion comes to the fore. Power gets...
View ArticleKashmir: Setting the Priorities
From N.C.'s WritingsIn 1967, that is, fortyeight 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 ArticleGrowing Opposition amid Change in Public Mood
EDITORIAL The Budget session of Parliament is witnessing a spirited struggle by the entire Opposition against the BJP's anti-farmer land acquisition legislation. The Opposition's resistance to the...
View ArticleTahira Mazhar Ali Is No More
Distinguished Pakistani women's rights activist and Leftist leader Tahira Mazhar Ali passed away in Lahore on March 23. Her husband, Mazhar Ali Khan, the eminent Leftist journalist, predeceased her...
View ArticleDeveloped Realities in Dark Times
MUSINGSDevelopment is more than often confused with high economic growth. Nah, we don't even bother to query—What is development? Is development something to do with well-being or more to do with hyped...
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