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By Aditya Aamir The apex court has held that morality under the Constitution is not public morality or the morality of the multitude. Constitutional morality aims for a pluralistic and inclusive society; that even a minuscule part of society may aspire and prefer different things. In the context...
By Anjan Roy This month ten years ago was one of the defining moments of modern day capitalism – In September 2008 the storied investment bank of United States Lehman Brothers went under. The liquidation of Lehman Brothers, virtually the icon of modern day American capitalism, rang the...
By Sushil Kutty Those who have read or heard of the ‘Nun and the Bus Driver’ joke will know it is impossible to get a nun to “lie down in bed” with anyone unless it’s with God ‘himself’. Now, we know those who claim proximity to god, like...
Petition seeking ban on Malayalam novel ‘Meesha’ dismissed – The Supreme Court has dismissed a petition seeking a ban on the Malayalam novel ‘Meesha’, which was being published in a magazine Mathrubhumi in a serialised fashion and was discontinued after the petition. The main challenge was regarding a passage...
By G. Srinivasan Niti Aayog vice chairman Rajiv Kumar caused a flutter early this month when he remarked that the former RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan’s efforts to clean up the mess in the country’s banking system to prune the gargantuan non-performing assets (read loans) or what is ubiquitously...
By Subrata Majumder Concerns loom large on China’s backdoor entry through the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), which is feared to be propitious of a Chinese trade trap after Trump entered into a shocking trade war against China. Currently, India is susceptible to Chinese dumping of goods, which...
By Victor Grossman The events in the Saxon city of Chemnitz recently were truly frightening. The sight of Nazi-tattooed thugs growling threats as they stormed through the city center, chasing and beating up presumed “foreigners,” journalists or any other perceived foes, invoked memories of Charlottesville a year...
By W. T. Whitney Jr. September 11 was also a day of terror—in Chile in 1973. “I’ve been through this before,” Chilean author Ariel Dorfman wrote of the 2001 U. S. terror day. “The world will never be the same,” he recalls Chileans saying after their September 11....
By Aditya Aamir Jocko Street returned from the front door all smiles and lollipop lore written all over his ruddy face. Alex Smart on holiday asked why all the glamour at 11 in the morning and Jocko did his li’l-bow routine, waving a folded something in his hand....
Aadhaar card data should be kept secured and safe. It should not be provided easily and to everyone. This is the reason the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has come up with the concept of a Virtual Aadhaar ID (VID). Getting VID is simple. It is a masked...