Ranvir Nayar, Author at Media India Group

Police, administration & ruling party play dandiya with the law

October 7, 2022

While the policemen in Kheda district of Gujarat who created a kangaroo court and delivered ‘instant justice’ by flogging 10 Muslims who had allegedly pelted stones at a Garba event are certainly guilty and should be tried for violation of various laws, a share of guilt also ...

US climate change bill is not good news for India

August 16, 2022

On Friday, sticking to the party line, the United States House of Representatives handed President Joe Biden a major victory by passing 220-207 a bill that would see unprecedented expense on climate change, while boosting healthcare and raising corporate taxes to finance p...

Calls to boycott Chinese product hurt India more than China

August 11, 2022

A news report says that a chartered flight China Southern Airlines with 107 Indian traders on board left from New Delhi and landed in Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang province on Tuesday. The report goes on to say that this particular group was the largest group of Indians to ha...

World set to miss adult education SDG targets

July 1, 2022

Nations around the world have committed to eradicating adult illiteracy as part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal of providing education for all by the year 2030. However, with barely eight years to go, even as the world struggles with bringing children’s educa...

Demolition of protestors’ homes: Bulldozing freedom & laws

June 15, 2022

The demolition of the homes of activist Javed Mohammad and some persons who protested in Allahabad against the insult of Prophet Muhammad by two spokespersons of the Bharatiya Janata Party is not only in violation of all rules but is also entirely illegal, say legal experts. They...

BJP’s Islamophobia boomerangs as Islamic nations seek apology

June 6, 2022

It is a sight that few in India, leave alone the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, would have expected to see in a country that has been very friendly to India for the past several decades, ever since the two established diplomatic relations. Photographs of Indian Prime Minister Nar...

From Quad Summit to China: India must stop doing Biden’s bidding

May 25, 2022

The fourth Quad Summit, second in-person, has ended in Japanese capital Tokyo on a predictable note, with more intensive targetting of China, especially for its aggressive misadventures in the Indo-Pacific region. Though the leaders of the four member nations, United States Presi...

20 years on, African Union has failed Africa

May 24, 2022

The last two years have not been very kind to Africa. It is not just the Covid-19 pandemic, which of course hit the continent hard. Vaccination rates across the continent continue to languish well below the world average and many African nations have managed to vaccinate only a f...

India turns to King Coal again as heatwaves lead to power demand surge

May 16, 2022

Last week, Indian government said it was reviving mining from 100 coal mines that had been shut down earlier as they were not financially viable. However, with a severe coal shortage looming large over the country, leading to a massive mismatch between power demand and supply jus...

Unbridled inflation in India continues to race ahead

April 18, 2022

Few would have been surprised by the news today that inflation in India has risen again in March, because it was expected that inflation would keep rising. But what caught most analysts and bankers off guard was the extent to which inflation had raced ahead as the government says...

Replay of 2017 in French Presidential elections

April 12, 2022

If there was one surprising outcome of the first round of the French Presidential elections on Sunday, it was just how strongly Jean Luc Mélenchon performed, ending up in a respectable third position with 21.95 pc votes, just behind far right leader Marine Le Pen, who was the ru...

Despite rising inflation, RBI holds interest rates at lowest-ever

April 9, 2022

The Monetary Policy Committee of the Reserve Bank of India that ended its two-day meeting on Friday has decided to keep the repo and reverse repo rates at 4 pc and 3.5 pc respectively, the lowest-ever levels for both the benchmark rates. The decision was taken even as the MPC and...