Noted author and environment enthusiast, Amitav Ghosh, calls the latest Nandadevi glacial burst as a ‘predictable disaster’. Officially, it has killed 20 people; but many hundreds are missing. The Kedarnath disaster in 2013 had killed over 5000 people. The only difference in death figures ...
World’s equations, both political and economic, are changing fast. Covid 19 may have created a pause in the growth story, but it could not stop the change. In fact, it hastened the change. The exit of President Trump was an important milestone in the global political history, though the atta...
The outgoing US President Donald Trump had a love-hate relationship with the media. He loved the media glare and was a regular on Twitter. The attack on the Capitol by Trump followers was unprecedented as was the decision of Twitter, Facebook, and Google to block his accounts. He misbehaved with mos...
Narendra Modi’s recent statement at Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) that he does not discriminate against the minorities and Amit Shah’s claim in West Bengal that his party would not like to push with the Citizenship Act in Covid times are significant strategic commitments.It is important that w...
The year 2020 has been a terrible year. The pandemic has kept most people house-bound for over nine months. The virus attack in India has reached a million this December and killed almost 1.50 lakh people. India has gone through many disasters like floods, famines, droughts, super cyclones, terroris...
With the possibility of Joe Biden becoming the next President of the USA, America’s return to the Paris Accord is expected. It’s not that the US has boycotted global climate agreements for the first time. Before Donald Trump’s withdrawal from Paris Accord, George Bush Jr. had boycotted K...
The US election was a thriller, just as the election in the state of Bihar in India proved to be a cliffhanger. But the similarities seem to end there. In the US, most people seemed to heave a sigh of relief at the restoration of democratic values, whereas in Bihar, time will tell whether or not the...
Maharashtra’s decision to not allow the central agency, the Central Bureau of Investigation TO (CBI), to investigate in the state is not unprecedented. It has happened before in Andhra Pradesh in Chandrababu Naidu’s time, in West Bengal, in Karnataka and recently, in Rajasthan. But such moves in...
Media which usually ‘reports’ news, unfortunately, is now ‘making’ news - and that too, for all the wrong reasons. The Commissioner of Police, Mumbai is now investigating under ‘criminal breach of trust’ (409 IPC) and ‘cheating’ (420 IPC) charges against television channe...
Within a very short span of the monsoon session , the parliament has passed over 15 bills, mostly in absence of any opposition. They have boycotted the session claiming there has been no opportunities given to the opposition to discuss the bills in detail before being placed in the parliament.True, ...
