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June 2016

A Ray of Hope for Widows 

Widowhood is defined as the status of an individual who was legally married to someone who subsequently died. As per the 2011 census, there are 5.6 crore widowed persons in India. Women outnumber men accounting for nearly 78% of…

Two years of Modi government

The Narendra Modi skippered Central government, during its first two years, received bouquets aplenty but weathered many storms too, on its arduous journey on the track of economic and social  agenda. It was fraught…

PDS REFORMS 

With more than 24 crore ration cards digitized and about 56% of these cards being seeded with Aadhaar numbers of the beneficiaries getting highly subsidized food grains under National Food Security…

THE ELECTION RESULTS 2016

The results of the five State Assemblies which went to poll in the last two months are on expected lines. The most important political analysis emerging from the results is a significant setback to the Congress party.  It lost…

Is Divorce a Taboo?

Divorce has become much more familiar in modern life; it is no longer a secret of the past. The research into the changing attitudes towards marriage found that it is young people who are now mostly likely to believe that divorce…

The Invisible Hand

In 2009, I travelled to Geneva, Switzerland, to follow up on the mysterious case of the Pune-based stud farm owner, Hasan Ali Khan. Khan was accused of stashing a mindboggling $8 billion or Rs 50,000 crore in the Swiss bank, UBS.…