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An electoral intervention that has clicked

Srinivasan Ramani

Improvements to the EVM are certainly possible, but a return to paper ballots is an untenable proposition

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India stares at water scarcity

Gopalkrishna Gandhi

The ambiguity of reservations for the poor

Anup Surendranath While the constitutional amendment may survive the ‘basic structure’ test, the hardest test will be its implementation

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Steel frame or steel cage?

Krishna Kumar Shah Faesal’s resignation tells us about the receding powers of the civil service to make a difference to society

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An electoral intervention that has clicked

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India stares at water scarcity

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The ambiguity of reservations for the poor

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Steel frame or steel cage?

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Some call it democracy: on the charge sheet against JNU students

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The seats around the Afghan round table

Showing the way: on Manipur's new anti-lynching law

Its anti-lynching law breaks important ground in attempting to control hate crimes and ensure police action

Lok Sabha elections 2019: The contours of contest ahead

In the Lok Sabha election, voters will assess whether they are better off today than they were five years ago

A way out of the morass: on the US' plan to pull out of Afghanistan

The U.S.’s plan to pull out of Afghanistan is an appropriate time to re-examine the idea of enabling its neutrality

No freedom without equality at Sabarimala

Freedom of religion means the right to practise one’s own religion, not the freedom to undermine fundamental rights

A solution in search of a problem: on 10% reservations

Instead of addressing inequality, the 10% quota for economically weaker sections creates huge anxieties

Judicial evasion and the status quo: on SC judgments

In high stakes cases, the Supreme Court must ensure that judgments are timely and clear

A renewed attack on privacy: on Aadhaar Bill

The Aadhaar Bill, allowing private bodies to use Aadhaar as a means to authenticate identity, poses huge dangers

Still nothing to show for: on Imran Khan's performance so far as PM

Imran Khan appears to be banking on the establishment to help him and Pakistan out of its economic crisis

The CBI and the rules of political combat

Elite consensus may often degenerate into a ganging up of the powerful, but its absence results in chaos

After the inevitable exit

India must be prepared for the potential consequences of withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan

Hope with concerns in 2019

Five issues need to be addressed comprehensively if India is to achieve sustained high growth

Religion vs religious nationalism

The starting point for anti-Hindutva politics must be the distinction between Hinduism and Hindutva. Else, it’s doomed

The bilateral transformation

India and Bangladesh must seize the opportunity to further enhance connectivity and trade ties

Diary of the year to come

A cluster of anniversaries exhorts all Indians to be true to their conscience in 2019

The travails of the modern icon

Balance and fairness elude the Indian quartet, whose fate sways between hagiography and hysterical downsizing

Gandhi and the audacity of hope

Amid the normalisation of violence, his record of hope is the best way to acquaint young Indians to him

India needs ‘individual acts of bravery’

We are at a juncture where fundamental notions of modern India are under existential threat

Being a good neighbour

India must shed its zero-sum style foreign policy-making, and work towards South Asian integration

Elections in an embattled democracy

Voters in Bangladesh face an imperfect choice: a heavy-handed incumbent versus a party that has stoked extremism

The case against surveillance

Regardless of which government enhanced powers of surveillance, reform is long overdue

When Gandhi’s statue is removed in Ghana

It is a reminder of his subsequent evolution, and India’s changed place in the world today

Move fast and fix things: on safeguarding users' privacy

Individual users’ privacy cannot be safeguarded on platforms such as Facebook without institutional reform

Towards a genetic panopticon

The DNA Bill will give the state untrammelled access to deeply personal and penetrating material

Metropolis of the mind: how Delhi has become a shadow of its old self

Delhi is fast becoming a lost city to its inhabitants, a hazy shadow of its old glorious self

The slow, tortuous path to justice: Sajjan Kumar's conviction

The Delhi High Court judgment convicting Sajjan Kumar reminds the country that it must not forget mass killings

Centrism holds in India

The Congress succeeded by offering itself as the default alternative for farmers and the youth, not by soft Hindutva

Restoration of political sanity in Sri Lanka

But Sri Lanka’s biggest worry is a fresh eruption of the Sirisena-Wickremesinghe power struggle

The warning signs are loud and clear

Four years of mismanaged politics have plunged J&K into its worst ever cycle of violence and confusion

The fear of executive courts

India urgently needs the return of a thriving legal culture that uncompromisingly calls out political posturing

Verdict 2018, a democratic fable

As the BJP’s seal of inevitability is cracked, the Congress must diversify its narrative

A fiercely contested landscape

The Congress has struggled to subdue the BJP in these State elections, but the set-back to the BJP is indisputable

Ascent to the temple of democracy

The opposition to the Sabarimala order is reflective of a wider gender inequality in Malayali society

Delhi and Paris: A tale of two cities

Stirring reminders of the distance travelled and challenges ahead in securing human rights

An invitation to corruption?

The Electoral Bond Scheme inhibits the citizen’s capacity to meaningfully participate in political and public life

End this long trauma

It is time to repeal the Habitual Offenders Act, which has only ended up re-stigmatising marginalised communities

A relationship under stress

Post-Khashoggi, how long can Saudi Arabia retain leverage over the U.S.?

Still on the last chance saloon

The Katowice climate meet must ensure that today’s children don’t inherit a planet heading to a catastrophe

Hues of a new political landscape

The BJP’s electoral dominance is contributing to the saffronisation of other political parties

United colours of the ‘yellow vests’

As the French state tries to withdraw, it faces an unprecedented backlash

Cutting through the smog

Practical interventions exist to tackle the issue of stubble burning

The architecture is not the force

How a business friendly government has failed to arrest the slide in private investment

Secular democracy in peril

Indian politics today reminds one of the first decade of the existence of Pakistan

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