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Mamata Must Mobilise Her Theoretical And Political Idealism
By Arun Srivastava While home minister Amit Shah befittingly supported by his buddy, governor Jagdeep Dhankar, has been busy preparing the blue print for dismissing the Mamata government on the plea of its failure to control the election violence and placing the state under President’s rule, the five member...
The Risks In Underestimating Narendra & Amit
By Sushil Kutty A Noida resident labels doctors ‘Jallad’. Loosely translated, ‘Jallad’ is an executioner, the hangman at the local penitentiary. But what’s this lady’s grouse with doctors? The family belongs to Bihar. The pandemic caught them stranded in Bhagalpur. The lady’s mother and husband were found Covid-19 positive....
Covid-19: Lessons In Constitution And Governance
By Akhil V. Menon and Rassal Janardhanan A. We are currently facing a challenge, unprecedented in the history of the country. The pandemic has taken away countless precious lives and has left our nation gasping for breath. Once the pandemic recedes, it will leave a country that may be...
A Sound Data Protection Authority Is Need Of The Hour
By Ashit Kumar Srivastava It was in 2017 when the Supreme Court in K.S. Puttaswamy-I recognised the Right to Privacy as a part of fundamental rights. Further, it also realised that digital privacy is as important as spatial privacy (Justices D.Y. Chandrachud and Sanjay Kishan Kaul deserve honourable mention)....
Soli Sorabjee’s Role In Precedent-Setting Cases
By Harihar Swarup Soli Sorabjee, besides being a reputed attorney, was a noted social person. As President of India International Centre and, earlier as a member, he will always be remembered. When he was not able to stand up and walk, he would move on a wheel chair, visiting ...
Stalin Still Has A Long Way To Go
By Kalyani Shankar Where can you find Stalin, Nehru, and Gandhi in the same cabinet except in Tamil Nadu? Immediately after Independence, many chose to name their children in memory of freedom fighters. The late DMK chief and former Tamil Nadu chief minister Karunanidhi also named his third son...
People Caught Between The Devil And The Deep Sea
By Gyan Pathak People of India are being driven on a path between the devil and the deep sea. On one of the passageways there is the Union Government and on the other the profiteers. The Centre is taxing the people more and more while the profiteers are making...
Nepal Prime Minister Voted Out But Clings To Power
By Barun Das Gupta The inevitable has happened. Nepal’s Prime Minister K. P. Sharma Oli lost the trust vote in Parliament on Monday, by 93 votes for and 124 against. But he has not resigned which political propriety demanded that he do. Immediately after the voting, President Bidya Devi...
Floating Bodies Point To Lack Of Government Accountability
By Arun Srivastava Around 100 bloated decomposed bodies were seen floating in Ganga river in Chausa, a village located about 11 km from Buxar city, on Bihar’s border with Uttar Pradesh. The officials of Bihar suspect that these bodies might have been in the water for at least five...
Bill Gates, White Man’s Burden And Modi Vaccine Fiasco
By Prabir Purkayastha The incompetence of the Modi government is starkly visible in its handling of the current crisis. It fares even worse on the vaccine front. Its belief in the ideology of free-market capitalism is that the market will magically produce whatever we need. This is why it...
