March 2016

Once bitten (kicked instead of bitten, to be precise), twice shy (flagrantly opposite to it, actually) specialising Mukul Roy’s swashbuckling revenge (he was humilatedly kicked out of the party he made/popularized/promoted ; later he was…

Let’s face it ! Let’s not go awry. First of all, the ensuing assembly elections in Assam, Kerala, West Bengal, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu are routine run-of-the-mill elections as specified in the Constitution and is no referendum to the current…

Rape is not 'a romp'. This is something we shouldn't need to say in 2016. And yet recent news coverage makes it clear that we still have a long way to go in reporting on cases of sexual violence without blaming the victim or perpetuating…

Professor Siddharth Gupta being represented at Rashtrapati Bhavan on various occasions with Hon. President of India Shri Pranab Mukherjee (Photo courtesy : Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi) From spending time in Chennai, one of the…

It is a rich to rag story. No it is not one of the biggest defaulters Vijay Mallya, who virtually received unsecured loans of Rs 9,000 from consortium of banks. He has gone smiling all the way. It is the government bank themselves biting…

George Bernard Shaw is the newest/current rage in the PMO. His quotes of all strata are freely being quoted among the officers who are hellbent on becoming providers not granters as per the orders of the PM. Why George Bernard Shaw?…

We face the worst humanitarian crisis since WW II and the largest funding crisis More people desperately need humanitarian assistance than at any time since the founding of the United Nations. More warring parties are brazenly violating…

Jawaharlal Nehru University has been in recent times in the news for many wrong reasons. We are witnessing a violent clash of ideologies, a division over the Idea of India, and a battle of one-upmanship over reviving patriotism with deep…

Gravitational Waves (GW) were the last prediction of Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity. The first direct detection of gravitational waves was announced on 11 February by the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave…

Rape is a topic that makes many people of all ages uncomfortable. Few people think of themselves as potential rape victims, and even fewer consider themselves capable of the rape of another. The natural reluctance to talk about the issue…

The ambitious document ‘Technology Vision Document 2035’ foresees the Indians of 2035, and technologies required for fulfilling their needs. It is not a visualization of technologies that will be available in 2035, but a vision of…

In the most revealing “exposure” from the Raisina Hill based South Block based all powerful PMO (Prime Minister’s Office), it is now fully clear that despite Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s crucial all clearance to them, Rs 12,75,877-Cr…

With India investing Rs 2.21 trillion in creating and upgrading infrastructure in the next fiscal year, an elated Prime Minister Narendra Modi termed the Union Budget of 2016 as pro-village, poor and farmers with focus on bringing about…

India has the highest growth in the world at 7.6 per cent boosted by government spending, says the Economic Survey 2015-16. It has come out as a blatant admission that Manmohanomics could not make any difference to private sector dependence…

The year 2015 was a challenging one for the agriculture sector. It was the second consecutive year of hardships for farmers owing to drought and inclement weather in several parts of the country highlighting the urgency to address issues of…

With onset of spring 2016, Indian Handicrafts Gift Delhi Fair (IHGF) presented four power packed business with over 2750 exhibitors and more than fourteen well defined product segments. In words of Hon. Minister Sh. Santosh…

The union budget changes the thrust of Indian economy. It stresses on agriculture for the first time since 1991, which began an era of liberalization-globalization for industry and manufacturing as also neglect of the farm sector. It…

There are close to 3.4 million (34 Lakh) Indian-Americans in USA. It is a mobile pool of population between India and USA, but many of them settle down to acquire Green cards and subsequent citizenship. In 2012 Presidential elections, it…

India and Canada have a long history of working together. With recent visit of The Premier of Ontario Ms.Kathleen Wynee to New Delhi, newer collaborations and MOU’s have been signed that can be accomplished by working together and can…

Pandurang Naik scales the equivalent of several mid-rise buildings in an average workday, only without a staircase or ladder. He picks coconuts from the palm trees that dot India's western coastal state of Goa. Clad in shorts and a…

FEB. SOMETIME, 2016 : This is what family planning in India often looks like: Women in their 20s, mostly farmers’ wives, gather at dawn on the stairs of a district hospital. Hours later, a surgeon arrives. His time is short. He asks the…

Giddens defines globalisation as the intensification of worldwide social relations linking distant localities in such a way that local happenings are shaped by events occurring many thousands of miles away and vice versa. Although every…

The brouhaha over the JNUites revolves around the role of nationals and anti-nationals – a confusing and chaotic cocktail . In India, campuses have been the most happy hunting ground for political parties to recruit party members.…

Freight operations on the Indian Railways are set to witness a paradigm shift with the stage-wise completion of its two dedicated freight corridors, the Western Dedicated Freight Corridor (WDFC) and the Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor…

Gravitational Waves (GW) were the last prediction of Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity. The first direct detection of gravitational waves was announced on 11 February by the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory…