DAY OF RECKONING

When the UN earmarked a day for women to celebrate, it also offered an opportunity for the gender to make an assessment of where it stands in terms of greater equality This International Women’s Day, over 30 women’s groups from across Delhi marched as one unit insisting on “socio-economic and political justice” for all and […]

TOO HIGH A PRICE TO PAY

Jayant Singh, who was presented a massive bill by Fortis Memorial Research Institute after his daughter died of dengue, has now moved the apex court in hope of justice   A seven-year-old girl dies of dengue shock syndrome. A hospital bill of Rs 16 lakh after a 15-day hospitalisation. The story of deceased Adya Singh, […]

CHANCELLOR OF EUROPE

Angela Merkel gets her fourth term as chancellor of Germany as centre-left social democrats join hands with her centre-right Christian democrats to form a grand coalition The five-month-political-deadlock ended in Germany when the main opposition party — centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) — joined hands with Angela Merkel’s centre-right Christian Democrat (CDU) to form a grand […]

WHY PHOTOS FROM SYRIA DON’T SHOCK US ANYMORE

The routine exposure to unsanitised war photos on social media has led to normalisation of wartime brutality Back in 1991, when American photojournalist Kenneth Jarecke returned home after a stint in the raging, dusty battle-plains of Kuwait, he carried with him a highly distressing photograph: a charred Iraqi soldier barely clambering out of his vehicle […]

HOW BJP-TDP MARRIAGE SOURED

The BJP’s extra-political relationship with YSR Congress and ignoring of Naidu’s complaints and demands led to resentment. Naidu’s decision is based on the surmise that Modi-led BJP will not get a majority on its in 2019 “Talaq, Talaq, Talaq” shouted some of Telugu Desam Party’s (TDP) MPs near Mahatma Gandhi’s statue in the Parliament House […]

THE ODD COUPLE

Despite their hostile past, Mayawati’s Bahujan Samaj Party and Akhilesh Yadav’ s Samajwadi Party have come together to defeat BJP in Gorakhpur and Phulpur Politics is the art of the possible. Sworn enemies become friends for political expediency. That’s what the saffron wave that has swept the whole country has forced many political outfits to […]

ON THE DEFENSIVE

The forging of new alliances and the shifting of allegiances prevented anti-BJP forces from uniting against the common enemy in the three states where Assembly elections were held The North-east elections have brought three more states into the grip of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Many had predicted Tripura would shun its long-drawn history with communism […]

INSIDE THE PATCH-UP

Showing a ‘united front’, the two are gearing up to take on AAP in Delhi 2018 has not been a good start for AAP — considering that it is again circled by controversy — but things are looking up for another party, the Congress. While the national capital’s AAP government grappled with Delhi chief secretary […]