Saving the parrot
CBI is a political tool and hardly an investigative agency. Now it needs to rebuild the trust of the people it serves The premier investigative agency in any country runs on trust and when the agency, in this case the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), loses the trust of the...
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Return of Dame Dikshit
12 January 2019 | Rinku Ghosh -
A tiny market
11 January 2019 | Kushan Mitra -
Using a cannon to kill the flies
11 January 2019 | S Veena Iyer -
Justice delayed but not denied
11 January 2019 | Navneet Anand -
The stellar logic of Kumbh
11 January 2019 | Priyadarshi Dutta -
Career suicide
11 January 2019 | Pioneer -
Quota bomb
11 January 2019 | Pioneer
A blip in India’s story
Economic prowess, strategic capability and the way world leaders perceive a nation are crucial markers of our foreign policy. The Modi Government has failed on each count The ‘Free Hugs Campaign’ is a social movement that involves individuals who offer hugs to other people to showcase the power of a...
Rein in heavy metal exposure
Lead is a silent killer and its ever-increasing presence in our food and the environment is alarming. The Government needs to act fast and limit our growing exposure to it before it takes a heavy toll on human lives Earlier this month, a food manufacturer of a popular brand was pulled...
Why is a pot calling the kettle black?
BNP’s fulminations about wholesale rigging of the recent elections would make a horse laugh Time was when horse-drawn carriages were an important part of Dhaka’s transportation system. Those driving them, addressed as ‘Chaudhuris,’ were a law unto themselves. Their favourite retort to requests for fare reduction was, “Ki koitachhen Karta! Shuinle...
Portraits of a city bard
Mrinal Sen, the last of the triad of breakthrough Bengali film-makers with Satyajit Ray and Ritwik Ghatak, has left a legacy of craftsmanship that celebrated humanism My first introduction to Mrinal Sen was through his films Calcutta 71 and Chorus. Both the films were telecast on the national channel soon after...
Climate conundrum
With the US in a state of denial about climate change, no matter what India and others do, the consequences will have to be borne With two separate studies showing that the United States, the world’s second-largest carbon emitter after China, showed a massive spike in carbon emissions last year, climate...
Lameduck CBI
Everybody has a takeaway from the Supreme Court ruling reinstating agency chief Alok Verma The Supreme Court’s reinstatement of CBI director Alok Verma is a mixed bag and not quite the rap on the knuckles of the government as is being made out to be. Yes, the court did pull up...
Regional ragas
If federal parties indeed play a major role in the next Union Government, is it not time for them to articulate their national priorities and worldview? The latest from New Delhi’s political drawing rooms is that on current form, both national parties, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the principal...
