Television Channels Castigated for Communal Shows
By Joseph Maliakan In a welcome move , long overdue the News Broadcasting and Digital Standards Authority...
“Demonetisation is Unlawful and Vitiated” boldly holds dissenting Supreme Court Judge B.V.Nagarathna.
By Joseph Maliakan Six years after the November 2016 notification of the central government demonetising...
Persecuting the Victims
By Joseph Maliakan Instead of providing timely relief and help them rehabilitate the state and police...
Supreme Injustice: When Judges turn Prosecutors
By suspending the Bombay High Court order aquitting Delhi University professor G.N.Saibaba and four...
Rewarding Rape and Murder
In January 2008 a special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)court in Mumbai had awarded the 11...
Agnipath, a road to disaster
The educated youth in the country have perceived the scheme as an extension of the contract labour system...
The Courts , Constitution and Popular frenzy
All indications available from court proceedings in the Varanasi Gyanvapi mosque case available so...
Use of bulldozers: Height of barbarism
Popularly elected governments using bulldozers in the name of efficient governance is the height of...
Republic Day ban on Sree Narayana Guru
“I have never come across one who is spiritually greater than Swami Narayana Guru or a person who is on...
NEET: The Medical Nemesis
The National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) introduced with great fanfare has adversely affected...
State autonomy still a distant dream
With the massive majority of the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) in Parliament and the Union government’s...
Pegasus: Mamta to fight the Demon
Make no mistake. The Pegasus spyware, contrary to claims made by its Israeli manufacturer, is a lethal...
We killed Father Stan Swamy!
Months before he was killed in custody 84-year-old Jesuit priest Stan Swamy, who fought for the rights...
Delhi High Court order on UAPA: Warning against wanton use of penal provisions
First, the Karnataka High Court and then the Delhi High Court through their path breaking bail orders...
Lakshadweep: State Terror Unleashed
No people in independent India has faced such blatant and mindless state terror as the people of the...
Modi Government’s image building exercise goes terribly wrong
A massive exercise undertaken by an Index Monitoring Cell (IMC) created by the Modi Government to devise...
Linking of Ken-Betwa rivers, a road to disaster
The memorandum of understanding for the Ken Betwa Link Project (KBLP) signed in March 2021 among the...
British era Censor Board is back
With the abolition of the Film Certification Appellate Tribunal (FCAT ) The National Democratic Alliance...
Delhi NCT Bill 2021: Murder of democracy and negation of peoples’ will
The Government of the National Capital Territory ( NCT) of Delhi (Amendment ) Bill 2021 passed by the Lok...
The old becomes history
When a person is 90 or above, an early part of life becomes history. I was born in 1929. World War II...
Dumping the homeless and aged
JOSEPH MALIAKAN The harsh north Indian winter is particularly unbearable for the poor and homeless aged...
Farmers protest 1988 and 2020
“This is a drama of madmen, only those should join it who will fight to the finish,” farmer leader...
Rational ways to find a woman’s worth
In spite of the enormous amount of unpaid work women do, the concept that homemakers do not ‘work’...
Winged visitors from the North
The seagulls are back again at the Khalid Lagoon and the Al Qasba canal in Sharjah, albeit in lesser...
UAPA, NIA oppression the new normal
Following his resignation from the Atal Beehari Vajpayee Ministry on August 1, 1998, Ram Jethmalani in...
UP ordinance demonises Love and Conversions
The Prohibition of Unlawful Religious Conversion Ordinance 2020, signed into law by Uttar Pradesh...
Global fare, local fervour
Winter is almost here, and the UAE is gearing up for numerous fun outdoor activities to celebrate the...
Positivity at the time of coronavirus
N Kunju Think positive, experts say, for healthy mind and body especially during the times of COVID-19....
The fruitful deployment of people to work
From my own experience as an employer I have had three problems when I employ people. There are some who...
Learning challenges of modern schools and present day children
The present-day children, 25 years later, will take jobs and replace the present workforce. Will they...
Critical goals of modern life and how education can help achieve it
There are three important critical abilities humanity will have to achieve as we pass through the ages....
ECONOMY WATCH
It was in the last decade of the last century that capitalism started the process of becoming the face of...