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Countering a political act that has a legal garb

Kaleeswaram Raj

With sedition cases rising, often solely based on word usage, people need to have a political and legal defence

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The picture is clear, it is top-down misinformation

Rasmus Kleis Nielsen

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The state of India’s poor must be acknowledged

Seema Chishti This is ‘abject poverty’, and if the economy is to be repaired, the number of the poor has to be meticulously counted

The comrades and their divergent perspectives

Vinay Kaura Russia’s uncritical advocacy of China’s global vision is what seems to be leaving India quite confounded

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The picture is clear, it is top-down misinformation

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Countering a political act that has a legal garb

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The state of India’s poor must be acknowledged

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In Kerala, the need to budget for the future

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The comrades and their divergent perspectives

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What needs to be done with vaccines

A place for disruptive technology in India’s health sector

Artificial intelligence, autonomous systems and data analytics have a defining role to play in shaping the medical sector

A judicial pushback to a draconian legal regime

The Delhi court ruling is a way forward in finding a balance between civil rights and the imperatives of anti-terror laws

‘Record’ FDI inflows, yes, cause for celebration, no

The inflows during 2020-21 have not been in sync with the Government’s priorities for economic recovery

Energy inefficiency can short circuit cooling India

As Indian homes will be a key site where future cooling demand will play out, awareness of energy efficiency is crucial

America’s mistakes in the ‘forever war’

The U.S. misread the situation in Afghanistan, with the long war now leaving the Taliban at the height of their influence

The road from Galwan, a year later

China is now in a different league, competing with the U.S., and New Delhi faces the task of living with an uneasy calm

Higher education in Kerala needs a new chapter

There are many tasks the LDF government must take note of in its focus to transform the State into a knowledge society

The world is hardly wired for cyber resilience

Defending civilian targets and infrastructure against rising cyberattacks will stretch the capability of governments

Refocused vaccination campaigns are possible

Local planning will need to go hand-in-hand with equitable plans at the national and global levels

The rope of federalism and an unwanted tug-of-war

The controversy in West Bengal, over political and administrative issues, is an aberration in the federal polity

The dream of a borderless world

More than the biological virus, civilisation is experiencing a pandemic of barriers and barricades across the world

The promise and perils of digital justice delivery

Phase 3 of the e-Courts project can harness technology for service delivery without increasing surveillance risks

Strong-arm tactics weaken democracy

The Central government’s designs in West Bengal serve to undermine the structure of federalism

State interventions, Lakshadweep’s future

The archipelago’s integration into the mainstream should not lead to emotional alienation and physical damage

Bring genomic sequencing into the pandemic fight

Emerging variants, with evidence of higher transmissibility and immune escape, demand re-strategised responses

Connecting the dots to mitigate a third wave

The acronym ‘DOTS’ is a framework to understand the dynamics of the second wave, thereby helping mitigate the next

The red flags on the trail of the virus

China’s actions and the Wuhan lab connection do require closer scrutiny even if the U.S. may not find the smoking gun

Embedded in Ambedkar’s historiography

An ardent Indophile’s poem on the life of Buddha stirred a rethink on conventional ideas of a philosophy

Saving biodiversity, securing earth’s future

The National Biodiversity Mission can help mend the dysfunctional relationship between humanity and nature

Rural health care needs fixing, and now

A takeaway from the pandemic is that India needs to revisit and refurbish its health infrastructure in the rural areas

Comments to avoid in long-standing ties

Some actions of political figures in India are detrimental to the consolidation of cordial bilateral ties

Adverse changes, federalism imperilled

There needs to be a federal coalition to preserve the idea of a plural India, in terms of culture and politics

Close the vaccination gap, in global lockstep

Immunisation needs cooperation and is a prerequisite for lifting the restrictions holding back economies and freedoms

COVID diplomacy 2.0, a different order of tasks

Indian diplomacy will have to handle the fallout of the vaccine collapse and bio-research regulations

Elected autocrats, their pandemic responses

In the U.S., India and Brazil, messianic populism, polarisation and insularity have made the pandemic that much worse

Evidence of how little the judiciary has learnt

The Tarun Tejpal case judgment must not be allowed to become a precedent in derailing the workplace safety of women

A ‘reform wave’ Lakshadweep could do without

Though there is room for improvement, the archipelago does not need the measures announced by its administrator

Democracy at stake in Nepal

If the political Opposition resolves to fight back, it is likely that the new republic will gain in the long term

Culture, increasingly fractured and unplanned

Under the Central Vista project, the urban planning for a single, linked cultural district seems to have been tossed out

Nine-pin bowling aimed at free speech, privacy

By and large, the Information Technology Rules, 2021 go against landmark judicial precedents upholding key rights

The long shadow of political turmoil in Nepal

With uncertainty set to continue, India needs to remain actively engaged with all the political actors

The varying power of Hindutva beyond the heartland

Provincial politics resists Hindutva more strongly than Hindi belt caste politics, but there is nothing inevitable about it

One-state solution, the way forward in Palestine

The whole premise of the two-state solution is wrong, providing Israel the immunity to continue its ethnic cleansing

Slowing the pace of India’s mucormycosis threat

The experience of oncologists who rely on steroid-based protocols offers lessons in preventing and managing cases

A September exit, Afghanistan at the crossroads

While the U.S.’s withdrawal will end its ‘forever war’, peace depends on what future steps the country’s stakeholders take

Deflating India’s COVID black market boom

An independent vigilance system and an administrative machinery capable of affirmative outputs are solutions

Recalibrate growth, reprioritise expenditures

Protecting total expenditures at the budgeted level and mass vaccination are important in India’s pandemic situation

Trumping majoritarianism in the Hindi heartland

Regional assertion cannot work in Uttar Pradesh even if it may be a bulwark against the BJP’s expansionary plans

The fault line of poor health infrastructure

As and when India emerges on the other side of the pandemic, bolstering public care systems has to be the top priority

A gear shift to pull India back from tipping point

The ruling dispensation will need dexterity in handling the pandemic and managing the shifting democratic scenario

A collage of laws that leaves the worker out in the cold

The universalisation of social security remains an unfulfilled aspiration in the new code on social security

Interpretations which impede a just social order

The Maratha reservation case also shows that divesting States of the power to determine backwardness hits federalism

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