Harsh Mander: The injustice of the Supreme Court’s silence on ideological basis of demolitions

The bulldozer drives in BJP-led states are not anti-poor move but a communal targeting of Muslims, aimed at making them secondary citizens of the country. A bulldozer razes a shop in Delhi’s Jahangirpuri. | PTI The decade-long leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been marked by a battery of mortal assaults on India’s constitutional…

Harsh Mander: A judge guided by god, a case of constitutional morality, a ruling that failed India

DY Chandrachud raises troubling questions by publicly professing that religious beliefs, not the Constitution, influenced the Ayodhya judgement. Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Chief Justice DY Chandrachud’s home for the Ganesh festival. | X/Narendra Modi In the history of free India, the Supreme Court of India has authored many momentous rulings. Some ushered in regimes of…

Harsh Mander: RSS leader Mohan Bhagwat speaks of fidelity to Constitution – but ignores its essence

The patriarch of the Hindutva organisation misses entirely the Constitution’s core principles of justice, liberty, equality, fraternity and secularism. RSS @RSSorg/X As the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh enters the 100th year of its formation, why is it imperative to listen attentively to the words, spoken and unspoken, of Mohan Madhukar Rao Bhagwat, the Sarsangchalak or supreme…