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Jan 21, 2020
A human rights group reports that in 2019 Kashmir saw a marked escalation in the scale of violence and the crackdown by security forces, while another warns that approval for militancy is growing in the Valley.
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Jan 20, 2020
People in Ladakh fear for their indigenous culture and fragile environment and want the Union Territory to be included in the Sixth Schedule as the abrogation of Articles 370 and 35A has left it vulnerable to outside meddling.
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Jan 18, 2020
People in Ladakh fear for their indigenous culture and fragile environment and want the Union Territory to be included in the Sixth Schedule as the abrogation of Articles 370 and 35A has left it vulnerable to outside meddling.
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Jan 18, 2020
The Muslim community is facing unprecedented levels of institutionalised bias. The Citizenship (Amendment) Act and the NRC are likely to aggravate its distress.
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Jan 17, 2020
More than 35 years after his death in 1984, Faiz Ahmed Faiz, the Pakistani Marxist poet, has become the toast of India. From Delhi to Ahmedabad, Mumba
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Jan 17, 2020
Women of Delhi's Shaheen Bagh lead a silent revolution against the CAA, the NRC, and the NPP, braving cold weather conditions.
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Jan 17, 2020
The Citizenship (Amendment) Act has triggered a resurgence of regionalism in Assam and fuelled speculation about a new party that may be formed to take on the ruling dispensation and its agenda which is perceived to be violative of the Assam Accord.
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Jan 17, 2020
With civic elections round the corner, the ruling Trinamool Congress appears to have gained an edge over the BJP in West Bengal.
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Jan 16, 2020
The government, in spite of the growing countrywide opposition to the CAA, takes a defiant stand.
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Jan 04, 2020
Three fire tragedies in Delhi highlight the lack of respect for safety norms and bring into focus the proposed Code on occupational safety and health, which dilutes worker protection.
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Jan 03, 2020
Two judgments, one by the Supreme Court in the Nirbhaya case and the other by a Delhi court in the Unnao rape case involving the former BJP legislator Kuldeep Singh Sengar, raise important questions about the unequal delivery of justice in the country.
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Dec 26, 2019
The Nanavati commission, in a controversial report, gives Modi a clean chit for the 2002 Gujarat riots and holds police officers reponsible for not controlling the violence.
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Dec 24, 2019
The transgender community is unhappy with the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill that seeks to treat transgender persons as inferior citizens and is in contravention of the right to self-determination.
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Dec 20, 2019
Kerala Bank, the first commercial bank in the cooperative sector in India, is presented as an alternative to the existing banking network.
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Dec 18, 2019
More than seven years after the Sarkeguda "encounter", an inquiry commission concludes that there is no evidence that any of those killed or injured were naxalites. The report brings into focus other encounter cases in Chhattisgarh as well.
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Dec 18, 2019
The recent incidents of rape and murder in Hyderabad and Unnao highlight the alarming rise in violent crimes against women in a country that celebrates hyper-masculine nationalism and vows to protect the honour of Mother India.
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Dec 10, 2019
Nearly four months after the abrogation of special status, Kashmir simmers with rage, frustration and fear.
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Dec 09, 2019
The government's plans for a nationwide NRC and new citizenship laws lead to a fresh round of protests in Assam and other north-eastern States.
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Dec 07, 2019
A media expose shines the light on the Modi regime's subterfuge in preserving the opaqueness of the electoral bond scheme, which ensured that only the ruling party benefited from the largesse extended by corporate entities.
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Dec 05, 2019
A student's death on the IIT Madras campus again brings to the fore a serious structural malaise in the institute.
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Dec 04, 2019
Interview with Prof. Shyam B. Menon, educationist.
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Dec 04, 2019
The argument that India cannot afford low fees at institutions of higher education does not square with the massive giveaways to corporates. The commodification of higher education, the real motive of those calling for fee hikes, will destroy all hope of education as a public good.
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Dec 04, 2019
The recent increase in hostel and mess charges in JNU and the unprecedented use of force against protesting students form part of the BJP-led Central government's plan to make higher education unaffordable for the poor and to destroy the liberal ethos of society.
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Dec 04, 2019
Higher education must not only be provided through public institutions but be completely free, not allowing any exclusion on the grounds of impecuniousness.
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Dec 04, 2019
Interview with Sudhir K. Sopory, former Vice Chancellor of JNU.
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Dec 04, 2019
Students at Banaras Hindu University, who are targeting a Muslim professor appointed to teach Sanskrit and a university official who performed her duty, get away with their communal agenda.
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Dec 03, 2019
Interview with Prof. Avijit Pathak of JNU.
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Dec 03, 2019
Interview with retired Arabic teacher Gopalika Antharjanam.
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Dec 03, 2019
Firoze Khan hails from a family of Sanskrit scholars and bhajan singers. "My grandfather was a bhajan singer. My father taught Sanskrit. He sings bhaj
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Dec 03, 2019
Interview with Raziya Mohammed Kutty, Sanskrit teacher.
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Nov 30, 2019
Four persons are sentenced to death, one gets life term and two are acquitted in the Rampur CRPF camp attack case. But delayed justice is posing challenges for the acquitted in starting life afresh.
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Nov 29, 2019
A powerful BJP Member of Parliament is convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for his involvement in the killing of the RTI activist Amit Jethava.
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Nov 26, 2019
The capital city witnesses an unseemly tussle between lawyers and police personnel.
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Nov 21, 2019
The Supreme Court's decision to refer the 2018 judgment in the Sabarimala case to a larger Bench ushers in another turbulent phase for the shrine and the State.
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Nov 19, 2019
The steep fee hike in JNU and the authorities' response to the protests against it highlight how the government's policies are making higher education increasingly inaccessible to the poor.
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Nov 16, 2019
The capital city witnesses an unseemly tussle between lawyers and police personnel. By Anando Bhakto
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Nov 16, 2019
Interview with the advocate Anandvardhan Yagnik. By Lyla Bavadam
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Nov 16, 2019
A powerful BJP Member of Parliament is convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for his involvement in the killing of the RTI activist Amit Jethava. By Lyla Bavadam
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Nov 15, 2019
The NCRB finally releases data on crime for 2017 after a two-year interval, raising many eyebrows with its omissions and commissions.
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Nov 14, 2019
The rescue package for BSNL and MTNL, the fall guys of the Indian mobile telephony boom, hides more than it reveals.
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Nov 12, 2019
Justice Arun Mishra's refusal to withdraw from the Constitution Bench seeking to provide the correct interpretation of the 2013 Land Acquisition Act raises questions of propriety and integrity.
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Nov 09, 2019
In West Bengal, Congress spokesperson Sanmoy Bandopadhyay is arrested and allegedly tortured for posting on social media views critical of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and her nephew Abhishek Banerjee.
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Nov 07, 2019
THE prize goes to the Chinese Emperor's letter of October 3, 1973, to Britain's insane King George III. It was sanitised by British officials. Here ar
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Nov 07, 2019
Lapses from civility are rare in diplomacy, but the diplomat's reputation for care in the use of language has at times landed him in trouble.
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Nov 06, 2019
A 27-member European Union delegation becomes the first foreign team to be allowed access to Kashmir since August 5, close on the heels of a heated debate in the United States Congress that criticised New Delhi for the "humanitarian crisis" in Kashmir.
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Nov 01, 2019
Study shows that the abolition of the Common Entrance Test for admission to professional courses in Tamil Nadu has benefited students from the Backward Classes more than those from other socially deprived classes.
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Oct 30, 2019
The Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind, in its centenary year, reiterates its demand for a pluralistic India and composite nationalism and the determination to carry on the struggle to stand for what is right.
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Oct 30, 2019
Interview with Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind president Arshad Madani.
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Oct 29, 2019
As the HAL unions reject the management's offer of the "best revised wage package" and decide to go on strike, there are fears that the future of the huge defence public sector enterprise is uncertain.
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Oct 25, 2019
In international law, the state and its organ, the army, are held accountable for any wrongdoing. Not so in India where the army enjoys impunity through law which goes against the principle of accountability in a democracy.
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Oct 25, 2019
The annual report of the Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana highlights some of the very pitfalls that public health experts have been warning the government about regarding publicly funded and privately managed health insurance schemes.
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Oct 25, 2019
Both the Mumbai Metro project in Aarey and the protests against it are plagued by serious limitations.
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Oct 24, 2019
There is widespread resentment in flood-ravaged Karnataka over what is seen as a betrayal of the State by the Central government in the matter of relief aid.
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Oct 23, 2019
The Supreme Court order against the plea to exempt quarries from the ceiling limits under the Kerala Land Reforms Act has far-reaching implications for various economic sectors in the State.
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Oct 12, 2019
Differing positions of the rebel groups on the issue of a separate flag and a constitution for Nagas being a part of the final solution makes it difficult for the Centre's interlocutor to get all stakeholders on board to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi's early deadline for a conclusion of the Naga peace talks.
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Oct 12, 2019
A watershed looms ominously on Kashmir's horizon.
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Oct 12, 2019
Muslim bodies and community leaders back the Modi government on its actions in Kashmir, but this support is being seen as an overture stemming from fear.
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Oct 11, 2019
If the Centre expected an immediate and emotional outburst after the August 5 move, it did not come, but the simmering resentment in Kashmir points to the possibility of a more ominous outcome.
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Oct 03, 2019
Several factors going wrong at the very last minutes of the Chandrayaan-2 mission led to the lander Vikram crash-landing on the moon as the nation watched with bated breath.
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Oct 01, 2019
Muharram is an important festival in villages across northern Karnataka. The celebrations are mainly led by Hindus and the event is marked even in villages that have no Muslim residents.
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Sep 30, 2019
The scientific paper on the DNA analysis of the Harappan skeleton from Rakhigarhi claims that there was no Aryan invasion and no Aryan migration and that all the developments right from the hunting-gathering stage to modern times in South Asia were done by indigenous people. An agenda-setting for indigeneity of populations, ideas and civilisational traits may be embeded in the paper.
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Sep 28, 2019
The ideology of Akhand Bharat sees the multiple diversities, whether linguistic, cultural or social, as threats to achieving the goal of a Hindu Rashtra. Mahatma Gandhi and Vallabhbhai Patel were not in favour of one language as a national language.
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Sep 28, 2019
The legal fraternity in Tamil Nadu protests against the transfer of Justice Tahilramani.
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Sep 28, 2019
The transfer of Chief Justice V.K. Tahilramani from the Madras High Court to Meghalaya High Court, which led to her resignation in protest, points to the rot within the collegium system.
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Sep 26, 2019
An early morning police raid at a Delhi University professor's house is indicative of the government's attempts to stifle criticism.
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Sep 25, 2019
An early morning police raid at a Delhi University professor's house is indicative of the government's attempts to stifle criticism.
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Sep 21, 2019
Several factors going wrong at the very last minutes of the Chandrayaan-2 mission led to the lander Vikram crash-landing on the moon as the nation watched with bated breath. By T.S. Subramanian
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Sep 20, 2019
Ideal fiscal federalism in a market-driven economy calls for reassigning all the commodity taxes to States and effecting equalisation grants by the Union government.
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Sep 19, 2019
The government claims that the National Medical Commission Act will remove corruption in medical education and ensure access to quality health care, yet there are fears that it will legitimise quackery and surrender medical education to private players.
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Sep 19, 2019
The government is keen on corporatising the ordnance factories, but unions are against the proposal, which they believe defeats the very purpose of this crucial arm of Indian defence.
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Sep 14, 2019
The use of targeted money transfers using Aadhaar is a corrupt practice as defined under Section 123 of the Representation of the People Act. But just 90 days before the 2019 Lok Sabha election, at least 41 million voters received gifts and gratification through direct benefit transfer of at least Rs.623 billion through the PM-KISAN scheme.
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Sep 14, 2019
The move to link the voter ID with Aadhaar and the attempts, through PILs, to bring social media accounts also under its ambit stir up the right to privacy debate again.
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Sep 13, 2019
The RBI's transfer of a huge surplus to the Union government does not augur well for it from an institutional standpoint and in the context of management of the economy.
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Sep 13, 2019
Colonel (retd) Mathew Thomas was one of the petitioners in the case challenging the constitutional validity of Aadhaar. On the basis of information se
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Sep 13, 2019
Political parties and people reject the final National Register of Citizens list, describe the exercise as "faulty", and allege that the updated register includes names of "illegal Bangladeshi migrants" but excludes genuine citizens.
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Sep 13, 2019
The DDA razes a Sant Ravidas temple in the national capital, setting off protests by Dalits across north India.
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Sep 11, 2019
A little-known organisation in Mumbai gets two high-profile speakers to talk on the similarities between Hindutva and Zionism at an event in the University of Mumbai.
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Sep 05, 2019
Controversies regarding the Sardar Sarovar dam project continue as Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh fight it out over the Narmada waters.
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Sep 03, 2019
A Rajasthan court acquits all the six accused in the Pehlu Khan lynching case but the victim's family is determined to continue its fight for justice.
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Sep 03, 2019
The Yogi Adityanath government has systematically gone about withdrawing cases against BJP leaders. The latest instance involves cases relating to the Muzaffarnagar riots of 2013.
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Aug 30, 2019
Interview with Dr V. Venu, Relief Commissioner and Convener of the Kerala State Disaster Management Authority, and Principal Secretary, Revenue and Disaster Management, Government of Kerala.
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Aug 30, 2019
Intense rain and man-made causes such as excessive quarrying and construction activity in ecologically sensitive areas in the Western Ghats wreak havoc in Kerala, a State that has barely recovered from the floods of last year.
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Aug 30, 2019
The increased variability and uncertainty driven by global warming have made monsoon climate more unpredictable in the future.
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Aug 29, 2019
A recent judgment by an English court against British arms exports to Saudi Arabia on the grounds that the government had not assessed the risk of their use in violation of human rights is in striking contrast to the Indian Supreme Court's stance on Kashmir.
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Aug 28, 2019
The Central Bureau of Investigation has arrested and secured the police custody of former Union Finance Minister P. Chidambaram for five days in the INX Media case, but it has a lot to answer on its own accountability.
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Aug 28, 2019
Interview with Ghulam Ahmad Mir, president of the Jammu and Kashmir Congress.
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Aug 28, 2019
A combination of political marginalisation of Kashmiris and a perceived insult to their religious sentiments cements a ruler vs the ruled perception in the Valley.
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Aug 23, 2019
The Maharashtra government seems determined to deal with Mumbai's traffic woes by pushing through the coastal road project despite serious environmental concerns.
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Aug 22, 2019
The mysterious death of Café Coffee Day founder V.G. Siddhartha raises several questions. Was the financial position of his successful ventures shaky? Did tax terrorism play a role? Or was it the result of an exaggerated sense of honour?
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Aug 21, 2019
There are legitimate concerns not only about the Bill criminalising triple talaq but also about the way the government went about passing it in the Rajya Sabha.
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Aug 20, 2019
Activists accuse the government of undermining the autonomy of human rights commissions by amending crucial sections of the Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993.
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Aug 20, 2019
The charge-sheeting of 48 JNU teachers for a protest they participated in a year ago, under rules framed for government employees, is widely criticised as a move to curb the freedom of thought and expression among the teaching community. The move is also of doubtful legality.
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Aug 19, 2019
It was money, muscle power and political might that enabled Kuldeep Singh Sengar and his accomplices to lord it over their fiefdom in Unnao and get away with multiple crimes.
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Aug 19, 2019
The case reflects the collapse of law and order in Uttar Pradesh.
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Aug 13, 2019
Frontline launched its maiden Tamil book, "Oru Manidhan, Oru Iyakkam" (A Man, A Movement), on the life and work of former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister an
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Aug 13, 2019
A NEW hoarding that appeared overnight all over Kolkata has become a major talking point in political circles in West Bengal. While hoardings and cut-
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Aug 08, 2019
Year after year, tragic rain-related incidents are repeated in Mumbai, which is bursting at the seams. It is the poor who are always the victims.
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Aug 08, 2019
The Trinamool Congress is on the back foot in rural West Bengal as agitations erupt across the State against its party members who have been extorting "cut money" from the poor for benefiting from government schemes.
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Aug 07, 2019
The government's decision to tax disability pension of armed forces personnel who remained in service until retirement has invited strong protests.
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Aug 06, 2019
The second Modi government has begun its march against workers' rights by introducing Bills that seek to merge existing laws, brazenly dismantle labour protection and give industry a free hand.
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