India, Jan. 26 -- On Republic Day, we are reminded of the Preamble, yet the lived experience of millions stands in utter incongruity to its text. Article 25 and its companion rights pledge every India... Read More
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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