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When Executive Activism Replaces Judicial Activism, the Nation Suffers

India, Jan. 19 -- From 1975 onwards-and more sharply between the early 1990s and 2014-the central democratic worry in India was judicial activism: courts intruding into policy-making and unsettling th... Read More


Not a Pretty Neighbourhood Religious Freedom in South Asia

India, Jan. 19 -- Christians are persecuted in every one of the eight countries in South Asia, but even prominent religious groups, Hindus and Muslims, and smaller groups of Sikhs and Buddhists, also ... Read More


Corporate Takeover of Hospitals: Death Knell for Public Health

India, Jan. 19 -- American Corporate giants Blackstone and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR) have been acquiring private hospitals in Kerala on a war footing. If not properly regulated, it will have... Read More


Hate and Revenge Mobilisation Tools of the Right-Wing

India, Jan. 19 -- A recent statement by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Somnath and a speech by Ajit Doval, India's National Security Advisor, strongly suggest that the BJP continues to deploy hate an... Read More


Somnath Temple: History as a Political Tool, Yet Again

India, Jan. 19 -- The campaign around the Ram Temple, i.e. demolition of the Babri mosque, paid rich electoral dividends to the BJP and also to its parent RSS. Kashi and Mathura are in the line. A new... Read More


Faith, Fear and Farce Closure of a Medical College

India, Jan. 19 -- India speaks endlessly of numbers. We are now the world's fourth-largest economy, soon to be the third, we are told with chest-thumping regularity. But numbers matter only when they ... Read More


The Mob Becomes the Regulator

India, Jan. 19 -- The classical definition of a human person is that they are rational animals. However, the American science fiction author, engineer, and naval officer Robert Anson Heinlein, also kn... Read More


It Won't Stop at 69!

India, Jan. 12 -- Sixty-nine candidates elected unopposed! Just like that. No ballot papers warmed by human fingers. No queues outside schools. No indelible ink on proud index fingers. Democracy, app... Read More


The Farmer of Equality's Field

India, Jan. 12 -- In the dawn's gentle hush, where hope begins to bloom, Rose a voice from the soil, dispelling the gloom. Jyotiba, the beacon, with a heart fierce and kind, Sowed seeds of knowledge f... Read More


Soros' Ghost Revives "Foreign Hand" Politics

India, Jan. 12 -- In recent years, especially since 2024, the name of George Soros has drifted through India's political corridors like a ghostly presence. For the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP),... Read More