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More than the people whom they represent in a democracy, in whose name they supposedly serve, elections in India have often been about leaders and...
A tad bemused by the insipid response in the morning-after newspapers to the new Congress manifesto, we decided to ask the omniscient Dr Google to...
There was a time when India’s election exercise was the envy of the democratic world. The Election Commission of India, which is vested with the...
We hear that any day now the CAA (Citizenship Amendment Act) Rules may be notified. The Act itself, which effectively shows Muslims their place in the...
On 15 February, after what seemed like an eternity, the Supreme Court of India finally pronounced the electoral bond scheme ‘unconstitutional’. It...
Some of us may have become inured to the miscarriage of justice, especially when Muslims are at the receiving end. But the cockiness with which the...
How do you keep hope alive in the future of India as the nation we knew it to be? The idea of India as a multi-faith, multi-lingual ‘Union of...
The contentious BBC documentary on Narendra Modi’s role in the Gujarat riots of 2002, banned in India in January last year, included a revealing...
It’s not just ‘compulsive contrarians’—that breed of dissenters made famous by the late Arun Jaitley—who find the celebratory fervour of The...
It was Independence Day in 2022 when the 11 rapists of Bilkis Bano walked free, even as Prime Minister Modi waxed eloquent on ‘nari shakti’ in his...
Why do we have an International Day of Persons with Disabilities? Are we special? Should we be called ‘divyang’, meaning that disabled people are...
The state of Manipur, which erupted in ethnic violence more than seven months ago, is still burning. But it has gone off media headlines long since,...
Deepfake is the new buzzword in town—even media is suddenly all agog. A prominent English weekly put it on its most recent cover: how couldn’t it,...
Is the Modi’s government’s pet Char Dham Pariyojana about devotion, development or defence? It’s hard to tell if you were to simply go by the...
Even at the risk of offending some people, let’s replay that sharp-witted, often-repeated Aaron Levenstein line on statistics. The American academic...
On 31 October, a five-judge constitution bench of the Supreme Court of India started hearing petitions challenging the controversial electoral bonds...
Should the government abandon ‘governance’ just because polling is due in five states and general elections are seven months away, fumed BJP...
Maybe we are naïve to expect that world leaders of stature, a self-styled Vishwaguru included, and all those summiteering great powers of the G7/...
The recently concluded special session of Parliament will be remembered for many reasons. It showed up the intentions of this government and the party...
By now you’ve read or heard about the mysterious circumstances in which the Women’s Reservation Bill 2023 was introduced in the just-concluded...
You’ve heard, of course, what a great coup The Great Leader pulled off in the capital recently. The ‘New Delhi Declaration’ is apparently the...
The Bharatiya Janata Party’s faith in democracy, plurality and federalism has always been suspect. Its ideologues M.S. Golwalkar and Deendayal...