2023

Elections in three key States including Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Telangana will be held in a single phase on November 17, November 23 and November 30 respectively. Results will be announced on December 3.
Telengana


Telengana will be the last State to go to the polls this year. There are 119 seats in the Telegana assembly, 60 seats give a party the right to rule. The State was carved out of northern Andhra Pradesh in June 2014, immediately after the Narendra Modi government (…)

A humanitarian catastrophe is in the making as Pakistan has started preparing for the forced deportation of nearly 1.5 million Afghan refugees.
According to official Pakistani estimates there are nearly 4 million Afghanistan refugees in Pakistan out of whom 1.7 million do not have the necessary documents. Early in October the Pakistani government asked all foreigners without the necessary documents, for practical purposes mainly these 1.7 million Afghan refugees, to leave Pakistan by (…)

India’s professional soldier is apolitical
The Indian Armed Forces, or “the Armed Forces of the Union”, comprise the Indian Army, the Indian Navy and the Indian Air Force. They are India’s voluntary, professional body, with the primary duty to protect India against external aggression and defend India’s sovereignty and integrity.
Before joining active service, every Indian soldier – all ranks of the Army, from jawan to General, and their equivalents in the Navy and Air Force – takes oath (…)

Introduction: Diverse Economy
Indian economy is the most diverse in the world. The usual sectors primary, secondary and tertiary are there but these are further sub-divided between public and private and organized and unorganized sectors. The primary, secondary and tertiary sectors are further sub divided into agriculture, manufacturing, finance and so on. So, there are roughly 27 sectors to contend with.
Beyond these sub-divisions there are the large, medium, small and the micro sectors (…)

November 11 is the birthday of Maulana Azad, the first Education Minister of Independent India. It is National Education Day and every year the National Education Day goes unnoticed. November 14, Nehru’s birthday used not to go unnoticed till India was not ruled by religious politics which can be rightly called communal politics.
[Jawaharlal] Nehru and [Maulana Abul Kalam] Azad are the Titans of Indian freedom struggle and independent India because of their strong commitment to secular (…)

Introduction
There is quite a lot of political debate going on about Hinduism. Laymen and young cadres are quite confused about it. This article attempts to remove some fog from the issue. So the language is simple and non academic. All dates and figures are rounded off though care is taken that they are not significantly different from more accurate estimates.
We will attempt to answer four basic questions which to us appear at the root of confusion. They are:
1. What is Hinduism? 2. (…)

Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar’s politico-ideological narrative which he unleashed through caste census survey data on economic conditions of the people while would have trigger a significant alteration in the political system and its structure, it would imperil the move of the rightist forces to change the basic character and identity of the country.
It is a coincidence that Nitish commenced this task when Congress leader Rahul Gandhi embarked on the gigantic mission to bring about a (…)

Friday (3rd of November), Delhi woke up to a thick layer of toxic smog, as the IQAir put the city’s air quality index (AQI) at 611 in the ‘hazardous’ category. A reading of 0-50 is considered good. Anything between 400-500 is unhealthy. Schools across the city have been shuttered and construction activity halted as the city was declared the world’s most polluted. Although this is a recurring annual event in North India (now joined by Mumbai) in the beginning of winter, governments are (…)

3rd November, 2023
Karnataka’s Rajyostava took place on 1st november. During the month, Rajyotsava celebrationst take place all over the State. However, most of them are in the form of cultural events, rather than appraisals of the issues related to poliitics, economics and administration/ governance. Here is an attempt to reflect on the major policy initiatives taken by key political leaders, cutting across Political Parties, while they were in power.
Following the dissolution of the (…)

To delineate a myth from the truth is difficult. As the lines between a democracy and oligarchy continue to blur in contemporary politics, it becomes important to assess the leakage points in India’s governance. Elections can no longer be the defining characteristic of a progressive society as communalism and inequality continues to be fed and fattened.
When we think of ‘good governance’ our mind automatically meanders to ‘democracy’ as it bestows value upon the people – without whom the (…)