Sewage Testing as a Pandemic Monitoring Tool
A common challenge faced by governments across the world during the COVID-19 pandemic is to identify patients affected by the ...
Pandemic Exposes Weaknesses in India’s Disaster Management Response
Disasters are testing times for institutions and individuals, processes and procedures, and policies and their implementation ...
A Reality Check on India’s Search for Digital Utopia
The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the persistent digital divide afflicting rural India owing to poor and insufficient internet ...
The leadership has failed to rein in the police: A.P. Durai
Of late India’s police forces have made headlines for wrong reasons such as extra-judicial killings and custodial deaths. What is ...
Ensuring Zero Tolerance for all Forms of Forced Labour
Images of countless migrant workers either painfully trekking back to their villages of origin often with children in tow, or ...
'Mediation Finding Favour in Dispute Settlement'
Mediation as an alternative way to settle disputes is now fast catching up in the country with even some senior members of the ...
A Pandemic as a Political Reality Check
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought governments and their policies under scrutiny. In India, daily official bulletins talk about the ...
Indifference in the Time of Political Repression
The enactment of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) has created a sense of fear over a possible nation-wide roll-out of the ...
CAA and the Devaluation of Secular India
The Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019 (CAA 2019), has touched a raw nerve among Indians who grew up in an India that was a melting ...
B.V. Acharya, Senior Advocate and one of Karnataka’s eminent lawyers for several decades and five times Advocate General of the State is of the view ...
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Water Conservation in Bengaluru Needs Attention
Bengaluru, with its perennial supply of drinking water from the River Cauvery, may be the envy of many, particularly the residents ...
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 ...
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