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Modi Ki Guarantee packs a lot of firepower of the wrong kind. At the forefront are Uniform Civil Code (UCC) and One Nation One Election (ONOE). Both,...
In last week’s column (Indian Express, Sunday, April 14, 2024), I had rued the fact that I was unable to compare the manifestos of the Congress and...
A statement can also conceal the true intention of the maker. False prophets make false statements. The statements that haunt Mr Narendra Modi are...
A manifesto is a written declaration of intentions and views on issues that matter to the people. Some examples that come to mind are the Declaration...
The arrest of a serving chief minister on an alleged charge of corruption is a legal issue, a political issue and a Constitutional issue. It is also...
What will happen if the roles are reversed? Suppose a state government charges the Prime Minister of committing an offence within its territorial...
Next is Operation Lotus, another patented exercise of the BJP: encourage defections and give tickets to the defectors. I am told that the BJP will...
The warning signs were clear. The Opposition parties were able to sense what was coming, but pettifogging advisers seem to have held back their...
We thought we were only in an alphabet soup: IT, CBI, ED, SFIO, NCB, NIA and others in the offing. Who is the big brother? Who is the upstart? Who is...
NRC was intended to enumerate all citizens in the National Register. A diabolical procedure was adopted. When the patriotic authors found that lakhs...
An election to elect a national government should ideally be to rally people behind a common national purpose or purposes. People may divide their...
An election to elect a national government should ideally be to rally people behind a common national purpose or purposes. People may divide their...
The notification of the Election Commission of India (ECI) announcing the schedule of the Lok Sabha elections is expected this week. In the past, the...
The effect of these undue restrictions on open campaigns has been to rob the essence of elections in a democracy — an election is a festival of...
Don’t be surprised if you wake up one morning and read the screaming headline in the newspapers “No more poor: India abolishes poverty”. That is...
Don’t be surprised if you wake up one morning and read the screaming headline in the newspapers “No more poor: India abolishes poverty”.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi regularly refers to himself in the third person rather than I or My. There is a word for that habit: illeism. It may be a...
The record of the BJP/NDA government in the last 10 years has been uninspiring. Against the UPA’s record of 6.7 per cent under the new series (it...
Sometimes there is a method in the madness. A government presenting its last Budget on the eve of general elections would present an Interim budget...
One would have expected that a White paper at the end of BJP’s 10-year rule would be on its tenure but, surprisingly, it was on the UPA’s tenure...
Good economics is quiet and good economists stand behind the results of their policies. The Economic Survey, the President’s Address on the first...
The NDA government likes to be very loud. This year, while presenting the interim Budget for 2024-25, the Hon’ble Finance Minister (FM) chose to use...
In the case of politics, it is well to not confuse the rules of politics with the law on politics.
In a column some weeks ago, I had tried to explain the difference between Rule of Law and Rule by Law. Under the former, the Law is supreme and all...
I begin this column on the unassailable premise that India is a Union of States. The States (minus Jammu & Kashmir) are listed in the First Schedule...
The worst example is the three criminal law Bills passed recently. While ‘criminal law’ and ‘criminal procedure’ are in the Concurrent List,...
The media has gone to town on Affluent India. Affluent India is our AI — persons having an annual income of USD 10,000 or about Rs 8,40,000. The...
While celebrating the 7 crore people who will be Affluent India, we should also reflect on the pitiable status of three times more Indians (22.8...
I wrote in this column on August 28, 2022. ‘None could have poured out the anguish of a human better than an abused, violated and bereaved mother...
The lessons of the Bilkis Bano case are that the dignity, liberty, privacy and human rights of citizens are violated with impunity. But there are...
The government’s economic policies lean toward low direct taxes, high and often oppressive indirect taxes coupled with coercive measures, capital...
This is the first column in calendar 2024 and I renew my good wishes for a Happy New Year. Happiness is a sum of many parts. There are 142 crore...
Parliament is a talking shop. It should remain a talking shop. A stigma will attach to Parliament only if it ceases to be a talking shop. It is...
Despite the precedents, the government took cover behind a questionable argument that the Hon’ble Speaker was responsible for the security of...
Large sections of the four ‘castes’ are poor, unhappy and have little faith in the policies and programmes of the Modi government. They know that...
The accepted wisdom is that there are four castes in India. Actually, there are four varnas and numerous castes running into the thousands. The four...
A judgement of the Hon’ble Supreme Court is the law declared and is binding on all citizens of India. It is therefore entitled to the utmost respect...
Keep aside the ‘abrogation’ of Article 370. Of greater concern to the country is the devilish ways in which the provisions of the Constitution can...
After any election, particularly after a clutch of state elections, there will be a lot of noise. The victors will celebrate loudly and there will be...
At the end of the day, it is not enough that the Indian people can elect a government; it is important to protect the other pillars of a democracy...
In Chhattisgarh, the BJP went into the election without the face of a leader… Congress will be the winner. In MP, the prize may go to the party...
As I sit down to write this column, it is Thursday, November 30, the day of polling in Telangana, the last of the five states electing a new state...
The Indian Penal Code, 1860, the Indian Evidence Act , 1872, and the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, constitute the trinity of criminal law. The ...
Many legal scholars have thoroughly examined the three Bills that will replace the IPC, Evidence Act and CrPC. We found that 90-95 per cent of the...
Elections are underway in five states — Mizoram , Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh , Rajasthan and Telangana . The polling dates are between...
The BJP is on a weak wicket in the five elections. It is a serious challenger only in three states (Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan) and...
There are economists and economists. There are also bank economists. If you believe some economists, nothing is wrong with India’s economy or its...
Let me begin with the growth rate in the ten years of BJP’s rule. According to NSO’s figures, in the first nine years the average growth rate was...
Caste and reservation are back in the headlines. Articles 15 and 16 of the Constitution enabled ‘reservation’ for SC, ST and socially and...
Caste may not be annihilated, but caste-identity and caste-affinity can be weakened by sustained effort. If common citizens and social and political...
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