The 2024 parliamentary elections have brought to the fore several real but hitherto undiscussed and hence uncommon economic issues. The finance minister has declined to fight the election because she said she has not enough money. This is a rare case of personal honesty which we seldom come across f...
The Supreme Court finally struck down the government’s electoral bond scheme last week. It’s a landmark judgment in favour of transparency to the voters. It’s a victory for the people’s act – Right to Information (RTI). But will its removal really reduce corruption – the reason why it wa...
When Amit Shah was campaigning in West Bengal during the Lok Sabha elections, he had promised a moon to rebuild ‘Sonar Bangla’. One of the inquisitive reporters, wondering about the cost of so many projects promised by him, asked Mr. Shah directly as to how he would raise the money to fulfil the...
Today, illusion is more real than reality. The social media has made this possible. As the ancient myth goes, Plato had banished all ‘liars’ from the Republic: they included the poets, dramatists and the creative thinkers. It needed an Aristotle to restore their dignity, stating that ‘imaginat...
A leaked document of OpenAl suggests that the reason of dismissal of Sam Altman was that he had reached a stage in the discovery of ‘artificial intelligence’ which could threaten humanity.Experts in Artificial Intelligence (AI) suggest that knowledge in AI is envisaged as having&n...
If the Jews were tortured or driven out by Hitler during the World War and the Allies had to rehabilitate them somewhere after the war, they could have found a place in Germany itself. Why carve out a land for the Jews in Palestine? Here lies the root cause of the constant Israel-Palestine conflict ...
It is surprising that after a recent successful G20 meeting in New Delhi under India’s Presidentship and attended by the US President and the UK Prime Minister among others, India would get embroiled in an unseemly battle with an apparently ‘friendly’ country like Canada. Following an unprovok...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi missed being physically present with the scientists of ISRO when India’s Chandrayaan 3 ‘soft landed’ on the moon, because he was then attending the BRICS conference in Johannesburg. He however made a virtual presence with a flag in hand to congratulate the ISRO sci...
On the west it is Kashmir, and now in the east it is Manipur. These are glaring examples of centre’s mishandling of the states over an extended period of time and there seems to be no clue towards a resolution of the troubles. Already, IMF has predicted a fall in India’s GDP growth in the coming...
The joint statement issued from the White House, which spans across oceans and reaches the realm of the stars, has come as a global surprise. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s exceptional performance at the joint session of the US Congress, along with the transformation of the relationship from an op...