decades - Different Truths

May 24, 2018
IPA Service
Electric Energy, Politics

Electricity to all Villages, but Issues Remain: Mission Unfulfilled until Every Home has Power

There are six lakh villages in India and majority of the population still lived in rural areas. What Modi government has done in the last four years is to...

May 23, 2018
IPA Service
Industry, Science & Technology

Artificial Intelligence to Trigger Second Industrial Revolution

Technology optimists do not deny that automation will prove disruptive in the short run. They point out, however, that historically periods of rapid technological change have created more jobs...

May 23, 2018
IPA Service
International Relations

Redesigning Indo-Russian Strategic Friendship: Perceptible Change in Tone and Tenor of Modi

Russia had nursed the feeling that India will speak out its mind on the US sanction against Moscow. The US had imposed the sanctions earlier this year under CAATSA...

May 23, 2018
Hemashri Hazarika
Governance

Prayers, Process, and Reforms: Some Things do Not Change for Ordinary People

The state administrative service is rife with arbitrariness and discrimination. Hemashri recounts how her study leave prayer for a higher study to JNU, New Delhi, was not granted, while...

May 23, 2018
Dr. Jernail Singh Anand
Criticism, Poem

A Remarkable Horizontal Vastness and a Rare Vertical Depth in the Poetry of Basudeb Chakraborti – IV

Basudeb Chakraborti’s poetry has a remarkable horizontal vastness and a rare vertical depth. His poetry concerns itself with all the essential aspects of life and one feels the imprint...

May 21, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

New Kerala Labour Policy to Make State Investor-Friendly

The most significant feature of the new policy is the commendable attempt to make the state labour-friendly. A refreshing effort which is in glaring contrast to the attempts by...

May 21, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

BJP Seeks to Take India towards a One-Party State

The one nation concept, as the Prime Minister would have it, embodies one law, one tax, one religion, one culture, one language, etc. Federalism, as understood at present and...

May 19, 2018
IPA Service
Economy

Challenges in Indian Economy this Fiscal: Corruption Continues to Eat into Vitals

The road ahead is bumpy for India’s growth story. Though India has been in a sweet spot umpteen times in the last couple of decades, its economy never grows...

May 17, 2018
IPA Service
Terror Attack, Terrorism

Ramadan Peace is all a Hoax: Data shows no Letup in Terror Attacks While Fasting

Let’s admit it, Ramadan or Ramzan has never been an excuse for Islamic warriors to stop fighting or firing. They continued to fast and say their five times a day...

May 16, 2018
IPA Service
Music, Obituary

Great Chilean Musician Max Berrú Carrión Passes Away

Despite not being born in Chile, Max Berrú became Chilean by choice and lived five long decades in that country and became an emblem of trans-Andean music. Together with...

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