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No Safety in Parliament?

India, Feb. 9 -- I read the news and blinked twice. Then I rubbed my glasses. Then I read it again. The Prime Minister was advised not to attend Parliament because the Speaker could not guarantee his ... Read More


Water Genocide I

India, Feb. 9 -- O Hindu Water, O Islamic Water, I aspire to practice The ethics of democracy As my way of life. Not as a slogan, Not as a ceremony, But as an everyday praxis Of Equality. Yet, When I ... Read More


A Bigger Cheque for India-Pakistan Arms Race

India, Feb. 9 -- With defence budgets for both India and Pakistan now public, it is clear that the arms race in the subcontinent is intensifying at a pace not previously anticipated by international s... Read More


Logical Discrepancy: A Lethal Weapon Repurposed by the ECI

India, Feb. 9 -- In an unprecedented and extremely consequential move for conducting free and fair elections in the country, the West Bengal Chief Minister and President of the All India Trinamool Con... Read More


At a Demographic Crossroads

India, Feb. 9 -- The news that India has surpassed China as the world's most populous nation does sound ominous. However, contrary to the widely held belief that India is experiencing an uncontrollab... Read More


Budget Blues Big Numbers, Bigger Gaps

India, Feb. 9 -- When the Union Budget 2026-27 was presented in Parliament, most television screens carried the same image - the finance minister standing at the podium, calmly listing numbers that ra... Read More


Right to Menstrual Health Part of Right to Education: Supreme Court

India, Feb. 9 -- A Supreme Court Bench of Justice JB Pardiwala and R Mahadevan held that menstrual health is a girl's fundamental right, enshrined under Article 21 of the Constitution of India, which ... Read More


Miya as Method Abuse as a Tool of Governance

India, Feb. 9 -- It was the Hindustan Times' chief photographer, the late Arun Jetlie, who taught me how to drive in the mid-eighties. He would come home, take me in the car, and drive to the Raj Bhav... Read More


Hate Speech Goes Through the Roof

India, Feb. 9 -- Hate speech against minorities has been one of the most significant strategies used by the BJP to polarise the majority community and secure electoral victories over the past eleven y... Read More


Normalising the Language of Cruelty

India, Feb. 9 -- Let us be real, slurs are nothing uncommon. They have existed since time immemorial, but to justify, propagate and normalise them shamelessly is nothing short of Hitlerian levels of v... Read More