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Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut is not known for his oratory. But his one-liners have been straight to the point and often controversial, at times without any justification. But on many occasions his comments were noted for the insight these provided to behind the scene activities. Recently, he said the relationship between Shiv Sena and BJP was not like ‘India-Pakistan’, but rather like the one between Bollywood power couple Aamir Khan and Kiran Rao, who recently announced their separation, although they said they would continue to collaborate at the professional level.

With additional charge of the ‘Cooperation Ministry’ given to Home Minister Amit Shah, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has identified ‘Political Enemy No.1’ – NCP supremo Sharad Pawar, who has been anchoring efforts to cobble up a viable and winning political alternative to the Modi-Shah BJP juggernaut, which saw near total annihilation in the West Bengal assembly polls even as the 2nd Covid wave drowned Modi’s international standing in record volumes of covid-infested Ganga Jal.

New Delhi: Medal contender PV Sindhu feels that she has received a good draw at the Tokyo Games but opined that this is the Olympics and it is not going to be easy.

In the pre-dawn hours of July 7, the president-turned-dictator of Haiti, Jovenel Moïse, was gunned down in his home by assassins. Two men now make duelling claims to be prime minister—and thus head of government. Many Haiti observers warn the stage may be set for the U.S. to resume its long history of intervening in the country’s internal affairs. It all adds up to more chaos and suffering for the people of Haiti, whose fate has for generations been subject to the whims of imperial powers and local comprador elites.

The objectives of the Indian criminal justice include penalizing, reforming, and rehabilitating the offender. Reformation is its ultimate goal, as the system professes to be more rehabilitative than retributive.

As we dealt with the nightmarish second wave of Covid-19, the trauma of workers stranded in our cities last year without food, water, work or shelter quietly faded from public memory. One year later, the 29 June order of the Supreme Court brought back memories of those gut-wrenching times.

Playing with the germ of an Idea, Ray, the new series on Netflix, is brilliantly iconoclast and innovative from several points of view. Released in June, coinciding with the Ray birth anniversary, these four short films, harvested from four short stories Satyajit Ray wrote in Bangla, have, however, not drawn much viewer attention and criticism has been sharp, possibly because in the aged and established critic’s mind it is Ray films (which we have grown up with since the 1960s) that they are being compared with. First thing to remember is, these are not films made by Satyajit Ray.

If you are thinking of the Hindus as a homogenous and monolithic cohort, you are wrong. Even in case of their choice of Gods, Hindus are as divided as the country itself.

Amidst the visible falling number of new cases of COVID-19 in India, the invisible threat of the third wave of the pandemic may be approaching faster than expected. Complacency among the people as well as in government may add to its speed at a time when we actually need to be more alert and ready to run the race against the most dangerous Delta variant spreading in different parts of the world, the earliest sample of which was found in October 2020.

The persecution and eventual death of 84 year old Father Stan Swamy while in judicial custody has brought out many aspects of the perversion of the criminal justice system under the Modi regime.