Manas Mukul Bandyopadhyay & Gourisankar Nag The BJP leadership decided to nominate Bengal Governor Dhankher as the next vice-president of the NDA camp. As a result of this decision, there was a temporary break in the atmosphere of conflict between…
T K Arun It is altogether tempting to agree vehemently with Chief Justice NV Ramana’s observation that the media runs Kangaroo Courts on subjects even experienced judges struggle with. However, in fact, the learned judge does injustice to both marsupials and journalists.…
Nilanjan Banik “Europe, the land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts. The land where the economy gets to stagger all over the continent.” — Catalan writer and translator Núria Añó. Last week,…
Srikanth Kondapalli Chinese companies operating in various countries including India have come under the scanner recently. Several of them made huge profits due to the backing of the Communist party-state in terms of subsidies, diplomatic support, managerial skills, mass production,…
Anil Trigunayat There is a saying that even if any power wishes to leave the Middle East it has an uncanny ability to drag them back right in. With the changing global dynamic and domestic compulsions and perhaps fatigue of…
Dhiraj Nayyar Every major global economic crisis is usually followed by more localised economic catastrophes with a time lag. A decade ago, after the global financial crisis of 2008, there was the collapse of the infamous ‘PIGS’ economies – Portugal,…