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 ...
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 ...
Sparring between Congress and JD (S) Gives Edge to BJP in Karnataka
For long a pocket borough of the Congress party Karnataka appears headed for a waveless election. The southern State, which goes ...
Rethinking India's Battles against Chronic Agrarian Distress
In the run up to the 2019 general election leading political parties have promising payouts to the poor as part of the country's ...
Andhra Pradesh and Telangana: Regional Parties Dominate Poll Space
In Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, the two Telugu-speaking States in southern India, which together elect 42 MPs, the electoral ...
Defence, Make in India and the Illusive Goal of Self Reliance
The potential rise of a private military industrial complex with a collusive relationship with the State and its security ...
Political Nominations & the Anglo-Indian: A Reality Check
As India gears up for another general election, a forgotten section of the electorate is the about 1.50 lakh strong Anglo-Indian ...
Jingoism will not be able to surmount the deep discontent, says Manish Tewari
The Balakot bombings that followed the terror strike in Pulwama have given an edge to the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP)’s ...