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By Amulya Ganguli It began with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s advice to the Supreme Court judges in 2015 to be wary of the “five-star” activists who tried to push their social reforms agenda through the courts via public interest litigation. The advice was in keeping with the growing...
By Aditya Aamir Your flaws are what make you perfect. You can say that of most everything, too. Like review petitions in the Supreme Court, which point to flaws in otherwise thought to be ‘perfect judgements’. But that’s okay because in many cases, dissenting justices underline the ‘flaw’...
By Nantoo Banerjee The rising incidents of gold and US$ smuggling in and out of the country, following the downward exchange value of Indian Rupee, have become a source of major economic concern. They are threatening to further weaken the Indian currency. Recent reports from the Directorate of...
By Alan Simpson IF there are seminal moments in politics, Jeremy Corbyn’s speech at the 2018 Labour conference will go down as one of them. This was when the planet took centre stage. From the Kerala floods to the Saddleworth moorland fires and from California to Scandinavia, 2018...
By K Raveendran BJP president Amit Shah’s statement that the decision to cut fuel prices by Rs2.5 shows the sensitivity of the Narendra Modi government towards the country and people is the height of hypocrisy. The claim, which came within hours of the announcement of the price reduction,...
By Sushil Kutty Okay, it’s happening. ‘Whisper networks’ on Whatsapp have come alive. Prominent bylines are suddenly sexual predators. Name and shame, says the woman journalist victim/survivor of alleged sexual misconduct dating back years when the senior journalist was a decade younger. Nobody accusing is saying he was...
By Arun Srivastava The signing of the agreement for the purchase of a multi-billion S-400 missile defence system between India and Russia is a historical event, but more than that Russia taking the initiative to iron out differences between India and Pakistan would prove to be a major...
By Harihar Swarup Why BSP supremo Mayawati has backed out from an electoral alliance with the Congress for the coming assembly elections in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh? Before she emphatically ruled out an electoral tie-up in the two key states, she forged a poll-pact with Congress...
By Emile Schepers Hundreds of thousands of women filled the streets of cities and towns throughout Brazil last Saturday, in massive demonstrations against a possible victory of the extreme right in the upcoming October 7 national elections. The slogan of the demonstrations was “Ele nao,” Portuguese for “not...
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: There is no mistaking it. The Pinarayi Vijayan-led Left Democratic Front (LDF) government has lost the political initiative because of its shockingly inept handling of the Supreme Court verdict on the Sabarimala temple. The government’s unseemly hurry to implement the verdict lifting the...
By Arun Srivastava It is too early to predict the nature and characteristics of the emerging new farmers’ movement in India, but one thing is certain that the coming together of divergent forces and groups would invariably have a major impact on the politics of the country. ...
By B. Sivaraman Is it possible to overturn the seven decade old regime of industrial relations in a democracy like India by stealth? Without much debate and by making the existing labour laws irrelevant without passing any new law? Unbelievable but true! This is precisely what the Modi...
By Aditya Aamir Protests in Kerala against the Supreme Court order to do away with restrictions on women wanting to pray at Sabarimala should not surprise anybody. The ‘Ayappan mindset’ of the average Malayali is gender-neutral. Malayali men and women brought up in the Ayyappan tradition think alike....
By Nitya Chakraborty The CPI(M) leadership is at crossroads again. The majority of the politburo led by the former general secretary Prakash Karat is putting barriers in the way of an electoral understanding with the anti-BJP forces led by the Congress and in the process obstructing the course...
By Tom Hinchcliffe At Conservative Party conference, keynote speeches from senior cabinet members have shown that the Tories have simply run out of things to say. The consistent attacks on Labour and Jeremy Corbyn are so devoid of substance that any actual critique of Labour policy, particularly on...
By Rahil Nora Chopra BJP president Amit Shah is leant to be working on a plan to form third fronts in various states to avoid a direct fight between BJP and opposition alliance. His first success probably is the launch of Shivpal Singh Yadav party in Uttar Pradesh....
By Dr. Arun Mitra Even though dissolution of Medical Council of India (MCI) was on the cards, that it would be done so unceremoniously through an ordinance bypassing Parliament was not expected. It is unfortunate that such exercises have become routine with the government. Till date the MCI...
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