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 ...
Nehru's Spectacularly Indian Vision and the Wrath of the RSS
The Modi government's efforts to 'democratise' the Nehru Memorial and Museum and Library (NMML) by embarking on, among other ...
Madhya Pradesh Assembly Elections: Farmers’ Issues Vs Religion in Hindutva Heartland
The elections to the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly are likely to be a toss-up between matters of faith and issues affecting ...
Dissolving the J&K Assembly - A Continuing Political Farce
A former Advocate-General of Jammu and Kashmir described the surprise dissolution of the State Legislative Assembly as being ...
Deconstructing Ayushman Bharat and Infusing Institutional Reform
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government recently launched Ayushman Bharat (AB), ...
Some Views on Public Policy Outcomes in India - Is it the Message or the Messenger?
How has India been doing on the economic and social fronts? The picture that emerges—from casual empiricism as much as from ...
Jayaprakash Narayan: An Idealist Betrayed
The imposition of the Emergency in June 1975 by Indira Gandhi led to a general uprising across the country under the leadership of ...