The word ‘democracy’ is one of the most abused in today’s world. A watch on the news front will provide you will glaring instances. Let us keep away from the villains we love to hate – politicians, bureaucrats and corporates, and look at the mess we are in from a peoples’ point of view. After...
There is something perverse in the fact that the politics of poverty always brings out the poverty in the politics of the day. So when the deputy chairman of the Planning Commission, Montek Singh Ahluwalia, told the Supreme Court about the commission’s desire to fix Rs 32 a day as the poverty line in...
Reports of Maoists mobilising people against dams in Arunachal Pradesh, shortly after Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi had warned about ultra-Left presence in Assam, can only mean that policymakers both in New Delhi and the North-East can no longer ignore the presence of the Reds in the region. The...
Beyond a murky encounter
Kishenji’s killing will make the Maoist leadership more recalcitrant in negotiating with both the Centre and the state satraps hell-bent on looking at the issue as a law and order problem and less of a socio-political crisis.
The Northeast is in danger of becoming the next Maoist hub
The Bs of disruption
India: Over 14000 people killed in custody in 10 years
Talabs of empowerment
Flashback: The Hollywood production system and stars
2G: Swan, Zebra, Tiger... and Reliance ADAG's trick
