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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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Draft New Education Policy and Schools for the Skilling Age
The Draft National Education Policy, 2019, which aims to reform the education system in India has evoked a mixed response. In this ...
"Students need to develop 21st century skills which are analytical, applied and outcome oriented": M.K. Sridhar
Prof M.K. Sridhar , Member of the committee to draft the National Education Policy 2019 has been an educationist all through and ...
‘These are times when ‘fair is foul’ and ‘foul is fair’’: Aruna Roy and Nikhil Dey
The Narendra Modi Government has mounted an assault on public institutions and people’s fundamental rights and one such act is the ...
Saddest story in Kashmir is Farooq, who was once promised the Vice-Presidentship: A.S. Dulat
By an order of the President, issued on August 5, 2019, Jammu and Kashmir was stripped of its special status under Article 370, ...
An Existential Crisis for Jammu & Kashmir and Danger to India's Federal Structure
The Narendra Modi Government’s decision to remove the special status of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) under Article 370 is flawed on ...
Rural India’s Transition Challenges
While the electoral victory of the National Democratic Alliance in 2019 can, in part, be attributed to its welfare schemes and ...
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