CAA protests mark collective rejection of toxic politics and policies that dominate public life
India’s young have picked up mantle of an older battle — for a country that is equal, just and kind
If Parliament passes the Citizenship Amendment Bill, India’s constitutional structure, as we know it, will lose its soul
The CAB-NRC poses the gravest threat to India’s secular democratic constitution since India became a republic, and must be fought with a nation-wide civil disobedience movement. The contours of this struggle need to be worked out by We the People.
On NRC, Shah and Gogoi show a similar disregard for suffering of the vulnerable.
Justice Gogoi chose a moment, a few days before he remitted office, in a public function in Delhi, to vigorously defend the NRC in Assam. It is unusual for an incumbent Chief Justice to publicly declare his views on highly politically fraught matters.
National dishonour
We need to ask why India lags behind its neighbours in combating hunger, malnutrition
We need to ask why India lags behind its neighbours in combating hunger, malnutrition
Among all the countries included in the report, India has the highest rate of child wasting (which rose from the 2008-2012 level of 16.5 per cent to 20.8 per cent). Its child stunting rate (at 37.9 per cent) also remains shockingly high.
The middle ground
Despite some omissions, an eclectic volume of writings by one of India’s longest-serving politicians.
Citizenship Amendment Bill will result in untold fear and dislocation of Muslim citizens
This is the fearful tempest that threatens to engulf India in the coming months, one which will destroy in its wake this country as it was imagined and promised.
Tabrez Ansari lynching case: Why the outcome must concern us all
India’s criminal justice system has always been biased against disadvantaged castes, women and Muslims. Few people who organised and participated in caste and communal massacres and rapes have ever been punished.
Chronicle of an acquittal foretold
Pehlu Khan verdict underlines subversion of justice by police and bureaucracy.
The spectre of foreignness
Extending the concept of foreigners tribunals from Assam to rest of India will result in an upheaval that will stir memories of Partition.