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Alcohol abuse, consumption, banâ€¦ amusing that this has become one of the most talked about topics in our state today whether to condemn or to glorify!

Critique on Food Security Bill

D Dhanuraj

India does possess a decent production of food grains to serve her population. But the leakage, corruption and lack of infrastructure have resulted in wastage of food grains while poor starves.

Cashing in on Sins

Marita Abraham

It seems alcoholism is inherent in us Malayalis, for no matter how much it costs, we are still India's biggest consumers of alcohol. The sales tax alone on Indian Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL) is 100 per cent.

Time to redefine MNREGA

Ambili Thomas

The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act is the UPA government's flagship programme, which is believed to have taken the government to its second term.

Innovation - a new paradigm in growth for India

Sampath Simon

Economic growth is a concept that is dealt with in detail in economic theory. Numerous theories have been put forward by many eminent economists for different types of economies.

Time to stop ridicule of the public transport system

D Dhanuraj

The public transport system in Indian cities has been a bone of contention for sometime now. With the introduction of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission, urban mobility has made vigorous headlines.

Food Security in India

Sampath Simon

Food security is one question that has been looming large over and above our heads for a long time now, and it gains more momentum and significance as time passes by.

Why Hazare is Not the Best Thing to Happen to the Anti-Corruption Bill

Shashank Shekhar Rai

Although the pandemonium surrounding the Jan Lokpal Bill has settled, the talks have moved indoors and some form of normalcy has returned to the state of play, a lot of questions have been left unanswered.

A Message from the Tsunami

Tanveer Jafri

Nature's fury was at work once again on March 11, when a powerful earthquake of 9 magnitude hit North-eastern Japan, triggering gigantic tsunami waves.

Art in Times of Violence

Raja Jaikrishan

To make an artistic intervention in a situation made critical by politicians is hard. It is more so in the Kashmir Valley where performers have gone into hiding and painters are scared to dip their brushes in paint.

Riots in Egypt about Food and Jobs, not about 'Freedom' and 'Democracy'

Sam Vaknin

In the wake of the Great Recession of 2008-9, riots erupted all over the world, from Thailand to the Ivory Coast and from Yemen to Albania.

A Critical Take on the Binayak Sen Judgement

Mukund P Unny

The recent conviction of Binayak Sen on grounds of conspiracy to commit sedition and subsequent award of life sentence by a Raipur Sessions Court has raised many eyebrows, mainly due to the fact that it was flawed.

A Countrywide Odyssey

Jithin Paul Varghese

Tata Jagrithi Yatra 2010 was a one-of-its-kind train journey, wherein 400 yatris, selected from among 20,000 applicants across India, were taken on an 18-day journey across 9,000 kilometres and 12 destinations.

Learning Like Bruce

Shraddha Vinod

Moulding the learner to find a lesson in everything he/she does and applying that lesson to earn more opportunities - that's education. But in India, we are still shackled to several archaic 'lessons'.

Full Stop to the Past

Renjini Rajagopalan

When you do a course on human rights, you reconcile yourself to eventually coming across a lot of disturbing material - genocide and war crimes, torture, rape and other forms of sexual exploitation, FGM.

Slum Tourism

Gincy Susan Jose

Slum tourism is an emerging industry in India. Most of are familiar with the word 'tourism', but 'slum tourism' or 'poorism' is a new subject.

The China Story

Mukund P Unny

China, an economy which till a couple of decades ago was nowhere in the world economic arena, has now emerged as a global leader. The growth of China has been nothing less than spectacular.