Law and Faith: Constitution as the Touchstone for Interpretation
The Constitution of India guarantees the right to free practice of religion. This is, however, also subject to several ...
Letting the Data Speak: Consumption Spending, Rural Distress, Urban Slow-Down, and Overall Stagnation
The National Statistical Office (NSO) brings out a survey, once every five years, on the distribution of consumption expenditure ...
"Accommodation is very important in a plural society": Salman Khurshid
The Muslim reaction to the Supreme Court judgment on the long pending Ayodhya dispute has been subdued, with very few wishing to ...
The Ayodhya Verdict: When Fear-struck Muslims Prayed to Lose
It was common knowledge that the Supreme Court would deliver its judgment in the Ramjanmabhoomi-Babri Masjid title suit before the ...
Assam's Tangled Web of Citizenship and the Importance of a Consensus
The demand for a National Register of Citizens (NRC) grew out of concerns voiced over decades in Assam and other North-eastern ...
Federalism and its Hindutva Detractors
India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), focussed as it is on putting into practice long-held positions of the Rashtriya ...