THE HONEYMOON IS OVERON March 9, the BJP-IPFT coalition government in Tripura started its second year in office.  The government led by Biplab Kumar Deb and 8 of his colleagues in the cabinet had taken oath of office and secrecy in presence of PM Modi.  As is the political practice in our country the first six months of a newly elected government is the honeymoon period when the new political executives remain  busy in receiving congratulations and felicitations and getting adapted to the nuances of running the government.

TAMIL NADU, one of the leading developed states in the country is suffering in recent times under the indifferent and vindictive attitude of the central government led by the communal BJP denying the hard-earned rights of the state all along. On its part, the corrupt AIADMK government in the state had no qualms in mortgaging those rights of people just to save their skins.

WAR can only aggravate, it cannot solve problems, observed the noted economist and public intellectual Prabhat Patnaik, Professor Emeritus of Economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University while delivering the inaugural lecture of the Haryana unit of AIPSO at Karnal.  The focal theme of his lecture was "War Versus Peace".Prabhat Patnaik advocated a serious dialogue in a conciliatory spirit to resolve the problem of persistent cross border terrorism carried out by our next door neighbour, Pakistan.  He opined that Pakistan had to be convinced that they were more a sufferer than a beneficiary of te