Vasundhara Sirnate Drennan

Vasundhara Sirnate Drennan is the Chief Coordinator of Research at The Hindu Centre for Politics and Public Policy. She is also a Ph.D candidate in Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, U.S., and a Non-Resident Fellow at the Atlantic Council, Washington D.C.

Chennai: Youngstres and Students during the protest to Lift ban on jallikattu and impose ban on PETA, at Marina Beach in Chennai on Sunday. PTI Photo by R Senthil Kumar(PTI1_22_2017_000202b)

Jallikattu and the Art of Legal Dodging

In mid-January, Tamil Nadu was witness to a popular youth protest against the Supreme Court’s ban on holding Jallikattu—an annual rural sport in which ...

The Government's attempt "to regulate the acquisition, dissemination, publication and distribution of geospatial information of India which is likely to affect the security, sovereignty and integrity of India", has faced criticism. File photo: S. Subramanium

Mapping and its Discontents: The Geospatial Information Regulation Bill, 2016

The new Geospatial Information Regulation Bill proposed by the Ministry of Home Affairs attempts to regulate the flow of digital and cartographic ...

CHENNAI: 15/01/2016: The Aarushi story : Avirook Sen and Tanveer Ahamed Mirin conversation with Geeta Ramaseshan, at The Hindu LIT For Life 2016 in Chennai on Friday. Photo: R. Ravindran - CHENNAI: 15/01/2016: The Aarushi story : Avirook Sen and Tanveer Ahamed Mirin conversation with Geeta Ramaseshan, at The Hindu LIT For Life 2016 in Chennai on Friday. Photo: R. Ravindran

Convictions should be based on fair procedure, not collective conscience: Aarushi Case Lawyer

How effectively does the criminal justice system in India work? Vasundhara Sirnate and Saptarshi Bhattacharya gleaned an insight into India’s ...

No Consistency in Delhi’s Approach to Kashmir: A.S. Dulat

Kashmir remains India’s unsolved puzzle even after six decades. Its history has thrown up strange paradoxes and challenges for policy makers in New ...

An Indian student carries a flower and holds a poster during a protest at the Jawaharlal Nehru University or JNU against the arrest of a student union leader in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Feb. 18, 2016. Scenes of protest that rocked a New Delhi university this week spread across the country Thursday, with students and teachers from cities including Bangalore, Kolkata and Chennai joining demands for the release of a student leader arrested on sedition charges. (AP Photo/Tsering Topgyal)

JNU Arrest: Not Just a Crackdown, It's a War on Democracy

Is the current tension between the students of the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and the Indian government unique? In this article, Vasundhara ...

Can an Accord End an Insurgency?

Will the new framework agreement between the Indian government and the National Socialist Council of Nagalim (Isak-Muivah) in Nagaland bring lasting ...

CHENNAI : 02-06-2015 : IIT Madras inmates stagged protest at IIT Madras Campus in Chennai. Photo : K.V. Srinivasan.

Students, Saffron and the State – Resistance at IIT Madras

Political movements involving students have raised ciritical issues at crucial moments of a country's history. The student protests in June 2015 at ...

How India Failed Aruna Shanbaug

The life and death of Aruna Shanbaug, comatose for over four decades after she was raped, calls for a reexamination of India's policies towards ...

In this Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2014 photo, young victims of the recent flooding in the India-controlled Kashmir region sleep in a makeshift tent on the outskirts of Srinagar, India. Flooding in this conflict-wracked Himalayan region in early September has killed 281 people, destroyed at least 100,000 homes and caused an estimated $17 billion in damage. Hundreds of thousands of people may still be homeless by December, when temperatures typically dip below freezing. With relief efforts still focused on sheltering victims and clearing debris, officials say it will be months before they can even look to rebuilding. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

When Srinagar Sank

Conflicting versions of the army’s role during the Kashmir floods make it difficult to ascertain the truth of the rescue efforts, says Vasundhara ...

Passive Police: Institutional Learning Through Inquiry Commissions

Commissions of inquiry set up by the Indian state in three instances – the anti-Sikh riots (1984), the Mumbai riots (1992-93), and, the post-Godhra ...