The Third Way Out

Pratap Bhanu Mehta pulls no punches in the Indian Express : The responsibility for a culture of corruption, evasion, lying and sheer contempt for institutions lies directly at the door of Sonia Gandhi and Manmohan Singh... The republic is now at a delicate ...

Shekhar Gupta, Editor-in-Chief, The Express Group; Dibakar Banerjee; Anurag Kashyap and Pratap Bhanu Mehta, President, Centre for Policy Research and Contributing Editor, The Indian Express (NEERAJ PRIYADARSHI) Related Top Stories Hindi cinema ...

A wonderful edit by Pratap Bhanu Mehta says it all. The Government is pursuing an irresponsible course of destroying the independence of institutions.... [ Read More ]

Long-time alliance partners JD(U) and BJP have parted ways after 17 years. Will the departure of the JDU upset BJP's national ambition for 2014? Social scientist Saibal Gupta joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the issue. Q. What do you ...

It is this very functioning of political parties that the CIC seems to be targeting when it brought them under the RTI and in its order noted: The Political Parties select some problems as more urgent than others and present solutions to them which ...

Ananya Vajpeyi's Righteous Republic, being marketed as the next big India book (after Sunil Khilnani's The Idea of India), seeks to understand the manner in which the 'Indian self' (the swa of swaraj) was conceptualised by five key intellectuals ...

The confusion over Delhi University's decision, spearheaded by its vice-chancellor, to replace the existing three-year graduation course with a four-year programme gets compounded as the admissions process for the new academic year begins. Aside ...

During the recent legislative assembly elections in Karnataka, in a quiet and genteel area of Bangalore where I volunteered as polling agent for about 12 hours, there was mild commotion late in the afternoon when a senior presiding officer barged ...

Is the key to success allowing state units to function as truly autonomous units? Suvojit Chattopadhyay In our electoral system, the state units and the national units have to share a symbiotic relationship if they harbour hopes of coming to power ...