Even people who matter admit Uttarakhand going downhill
byDehradun: Uttarakhand statehood day was celebrated with much fanfare on Sunday, and there were big advertisements in the regional and other newspapers making tall…
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Reforming India’s Labour Laws – A Thorny Legacy
byPerhaps the most complex piece of reform needed to be made to the Indian labour laws is to make them simpler The new government…
To kiss or not to kiss and tell
byIt is in the very nature of news that almost everything is in there for the wrong reasons. It so happened that a few…
Uttarakhand : Small States Not Necessarily Efficiently Governed
byDehra Dun : On November 9 Uttarakhand will celebrate 14 years of its founding, after the hill areas were cut out from Uttar Pradesh…
Trishna – Winterbottom’s Take on India’s Tess (Movie Review)
byPicking out Thomas Hardy’s tragic novel Tess of the d’Urbervilles from the Victorian era rural settings and placing it in modern India in Trishna makes the…
Unearthing Black Money – The Hindu Way
bySo we have come full circle again – the list of holders of foreign accounts which had been lying with the government for three…
The Arab Springs in India
byMohamed Bouazizi, a Tunisian street vendor, set himself on fire in December of 2010. Enraged by confiscation of his meagre goods as a street…
Democratic dividend can bridge the rural urban divide
byTechnological advancement has made development of all sections of society possible but here in India, the rich-poor divide is only widening, fuelling the traditional…
Rule of Law? Really?
byIts fashionable to begin articles these days with a disclaimer (it makes one appear more profound), so let me confess too. I am no…
Cricket – a money hungry beast
byIt is already being called as Cricket’s day of shame. The West Indies’ decision to cut short their tour to India on the back…