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Defending liberty against political prosecution

Courts need to recognise selective prosecution as a threshold constitutional defence against the abuse of state power

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Getting it wrong on India’s level of agricultural support

Sachin Kumar Sharma Adeet Dobhal

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Removing the creases in housework valuation

Faizan Mustafa The work women perform for the family should be valued equally with men’s work during the continuance of marriage

True empowerment of the electricity consumer

Manabika Mandal & Sreekumar Nhalur Without strong accountability provisions, the consumer protection rules will not guarantee better power supply quality

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Congress, stuck in a quagmire

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A U.S.-Iran detente could be on the cards

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The absentee constitutional court

Striking a blow for investigative credibility

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The drumbeaters of dystopia

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The Amazon fires, an alarm that lacks proportion

Throttled at the grass roots

Local governments remain hamstrung and ineffective — mere agents to do the bidding of higher level governments

Trump, Europe and the Iran effect

The Iran crisis reflects the strains between the U.S. and Europe over the U.S. President’s maximalist political approaches

Calls of duty that’ll hurt the U.S. economy

The Trump administration’s latest set of tariffs, and China’s retaliatory levies, take the world closer to a slowdown

Teaching in the time of consumerism

Changes in social ethos and state policy have pushed the once-venerated Indian teacher to the margins of public life

Putting the pedal to the metal

The government should consider dropping GST rates for BS-IV vehicles to revive the automobile industry

Steaming back into the Indo-Pacific

Russia could be imagining a greater role for itself in reshaping the region’s geopolitics

Jurisprudence of the judicial rubber stamp

A close reading of UAPA Tribunal orders shows how fundamental principles of fair procedure are being given a miss

A democratic language, an authoritarian writ

Powerful populists are holding representative institutions hostage to their own projects of power

Putting the skids under border trade

The India-Pakistan face-off is having more repercussions than intended, with border economies the worst hit

Banking on the banks for expansion

The government accepts that the economy needs more growth but could end up paying for its inaction.

A new ethics for a sustainable planet

Viewing the transnational challenge of climate change through the narrow lens of nationalism will only spell disaster

Spelling out the government’s RBI windfall

The final impact of such infusions on the bank’s independence would depend upon the future course of such transfers

On dilution, bifurcation and ‘special status’

J&K’s perceived loss and New Delhi’s real gains over the Centre’s Article 370 decision need to be objectively assessed

Govt. needs to be prudent in using RBI’s transfer

The fund transfer provides some much-needed relief and manoeuvrability to the beleaguered Centre

Kashmir’s information vacuum

Legislative backing is being appropriated to normalise communication shutdowns

A monumental litmus test

How the Supreme Court decides the cases around Article 370 will have a deep bearing on democracy

Time to strike the gavel

The judiciary needs to dispel the perception that its standing as the guardian of constitutional rights is faltering

Hardly the brick and mortar of a revival

The transfer of the RBI’s surplus is only a stopgap measure which will not address the key problem of a lack of demand

Privacy no longer supreme

Two years on, the judgment in ‘K.S. Puttaswamy’ has hardly resulted in a rights-based handling of personal data

Under the cover of President’s Rule

Unless some limitations are read into the Centre’s role under Article 356, the designated powers of States are in peril.

An end to arms control consensus

An end to the New START in 2021 will leave the arsenals of the two major nuclear powers unencumbered by any pact

Letting the pearl on the Silk Road shine brighter

The Dunhuang city has been witness to both multiple interactions and mutual learning between China and India.

Increasing investment to stimulate growth

Attention needs to be paid to both cyclical and structural dimensions of India’s present economic slowdown

State-breaking is not nation making

In the J&K demotion, every code, principle and constitutional sanction protecting federalism has been violated

Data on demonetisation's link to economic slowdown may have been suppressed

Task force report may have provided factual evidence for the debilitating impact of demonetisation on the formal corporate sector

A top post, its promise and peril

The post of CDS can lead either to a transformation of the defence forces or it could sink with a middling mandate

Choppy waters lie ahead

Anger in Kashmir and adverse global opinion are but expected; policymakers must learn from similar world events

The far right’s disruption of globalisation

Donald Trump’s emulators have tapped into globalisation’s long-standing discontents

An intervention that leads to more questions

Revoking NFU does not necessarily mean giving up restraint, but it leaves India’s nuclear doctrine more ambiguous

‘The Idea of India’ is failing

The middle class that led India’s nation-building project has now embraced a nationalism that has no place for diversity

A considered step that opens up new vistas

The abrogation of Kashmir’s special status is a major move towards ensuring an inclusive India.

Lessons after the great deluge

Kerala needs to adopt watershed-based master planning and review building byelaws

Rajapaksa redux and a democracy in peril

The return of an authoritarian oligarchy in Sri Lanka could be stopped by a united stand of democratic forces

A playing field for political violence

History offers a narrative on why it is so entrenched in Bengal, irrespective of political affiliations

Assam’s humanitarian conundrum

Neither Delhi nor Dispur has been working on a proper plan for those who will soon be declared stateless

The contours of the Kashmir move

India’s actions were enabled by the unilateralism in global politics and a decline in multilateral arrangements

An abrogation of democratic principles

The Kashmir move affects the robust nature of Indian democracy in addressing internal conflicts and alienation

The imprint of a state juggernaut

High productivity apart, this Budget session lacked sufficient deliberation, pointing to the crafting of a docile Parliament

A point to ponder over in the POCSO Bill

More than an emphasis on the death sentence, there needs to be an overhaul of the criminal justice administration

Not the final word from Islamabad and Delhi

There are already signs that the Kulbhushan Jadhav case between Pakistan and India might return to the ICJ

Incisive interventions that blunt the RTI’s edge

With the kernel of the Information Act under threat, the independence of the information commission is in peril

Economic milestone and a poignant anniversary

Bank nationalisation eased rural credit and aided financial inclusion. Any move to reverse it would be self-defeating

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