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The Raja Raghuvanshi Case and the Death of Tradition

India, June 16 -- The Raja Raghuvanshi case has once again brought the patriarchal mindset and the rigid Indian understanding of marriage to the fore. Of course, one must sympathise with Raja, who wa... Read More


Happily Never After The Rise of Spousal Killing

India, June 16 -- Marriage, the word itself, tolls a bell for many. For some, it sounds musical, while for others, it sets off alarms. Different people experience the institution of marriage in very d... Read More


Caste, Honour and Silence The Meghalaya Honeymoon Homicide

India, June 16 -- The honeymoon murder case in Meghalaya has garnered significant attention from social media to neighbourhood tittle-tattle. The brutal murder case involves the tragic death of newlyw... Read More


Honeymoon Cheaters

India, June 16 -- Till recently, we used to hear about wife beaters - aggressive male chauvinists beating up their spouses. Have things turned full circle? Are women the new aggressors - chopping up t... Read More


Operation Sindoor Truth Needs No Defence

India, June 16 -- Our national motto is: Satyameva Jayate (Truth shall triumph). It is drawn from the Mundaka Upanishad. What it says is that Truth does not need defence. It is capable of defending it... Read More


National Reconciliation Need of the Hour

India, June 16 -- Whenever there was an external attack on India since independence, the people of India stood solidly behind the government in power, forgetting all differences of religion, region, l... Read More


The Temporariness and Unpredictability of Life

India, June 16 -- It is a tragedy of immense proportions! One of the worst in the history of civil aviation in India! An Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner (AI-171), from Ahmedabad to London, crashed s... Read More


Judicial Corruption

India, June 16 -- Five years after my appointment as a judge of the Bombay City Civil and Sessions Court, Greater Bombay, I was designated a special judge for trying cases under the Prevention of Corr... Read More


Election Commission in the Dock

India, June 16 -- The Constitutional bodies are independent and insulated against arbitrary actions of the Executive. The pillars of democracy - the Legislature, Judiciary, and the Press - are expecte... Read More


Rewriting the Nation: Historical Revisionism and the Rise of Hindutva Nationalism in India

India, June 16 -- The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government in India has been at the forefront of a concerted effort to reshape the nation's historical narrati... Read More