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 ...
Kashmiri Politics in the Shadow of Pulwama
Elections in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) have always been a messy affair, with different dynamics operating in the three provinces of ...
Contending with Contentious Cows
The evangelical zeal with which Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has sought to protect cows has caused an ...
Some Basic Issues Underlying Basic Income
As India gears up for another general election, the politics of poverty eradication has again gained centre-stage; and there has ...
Is Ayushman Bharat going to enlarge the role of the private sector in healthcare?
Presenting the Union interim budget for 2019-’20, Finance Minister Piyush Goyal hailed the creation of Ayushman Bharat as a major ...
Ayushman Bharat and the Trivialisation of Healthcare
‘Healthcare’, in the modern world, is conveniently, but wrongly, conflated with ‘medicare’ and is, consequently, increasingly ...
"Reorganisation of Uttar Pradesh should not be postponed" - The 34th C.D. Deshmukh Memorial Lecture [Full Text]
The 34th C.D. Deshmukh Memorial Lecture was delivered by Jairam Ramesh, former Union Minister and Senior Visiting Fellow, The ...