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A patently unconstitutional piece of legislation

The Citizenship Amendment Bill, 2019 has a sinister political logic — the first de jure attempt towards a Hindu Rashtra

Wholly subordinated to the majoritarian nation

Varghese K. George

A growing blot on the criminal justice system

Faizan Mustafa While there is reason to be concerned about delays in rape trials, a Hyderabad-like solution is out of the question

Constitutional justice is non-negotiable

Kalpana Kannabiran B. Sudarshan Reddy The ends of justice are not served by wanton killing and retributive blood lust; India must follow constitutional morality

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Mahatma Gandhi 150th birth anniversary: Recovering Gandhi’s religious vision

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The link between jobs, farming and climate

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Strictures in the name of security

Seeking harmony and moderation in Ayodhya talks

As Xi comes a-calling, a footprint without traction

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The top court and a grave of freedom

Institutions weakened, economy crippled

The credibility of the RBI, the CSO and the Niti Aayog has taken a beating in recent times due to political interference

Childhoods lost in a troubled paradise

Kashmir’s children grow up traumatised by conflict and live in perpetual fear of being picked up by the state

Different peas in different pods

Unlike IT, it would be a mistake to look at the biotechnology sector through the lens of employment generation only

An award and an unholy trade-off

Being the ‘Global Goalkeeper’ stands in contrast with the government’s script of providing social goods but not freedoms

Another chance in Afghanistan

Donald Trump’s calling off Taliban peace talks is to India’s advantage; an outreach to the outfit could secure it

Making the grand Indian PSB mergers work

Only a visionary leadership can bring the efficiency parameters of the merged entities in line with those of private banks

The nationalist hindrance to climate actions

The UN Climate Action Summit is likely to hand out hard lessons about climate politics in an era of nationalism

One people, many countries

The Indian American gathering in Houston will be an unlikely reminder of the futility of the claims of ultra-nationalism

Over the hills and far, far away

Integration of the mountains with the mainstream is unlikely under a unitary dispensation that promises a ‘green bonus’

Maths helped Einstein; it can help the economy too

The theory of relativity is regarded as the pinnacle of mathematical elegance, more than a century since its formulation

A self-inflicted economic slowdown

The government has failed to heed recommendations made by economists and bureaucrats on turnaround measures

Obama was right about Iran

Unlike his carrot-and-stick policy with Tehran, his successor Donald Trump’s unilateralism has felled the regional order

In Kashmir, shaking the apple tree

The question is whether the dilution of Article 370 changes anything on the ground in Jammu and Kashmir

Red Sea redlines and Yemen’s inflection point

The civil war may have entered its endgame, crossing two watersheds which could cast a shadow over Indian interests

The slow climb to the trillion economy peak

There has to be a focus on human capital formation and in addressing the real reasons for the economic slowdown

A dilution that falls short of the law

Several loopholes in the process of the substitution of Article 370 make the action problematic

Why India’s growth figures are off the mark

The over-reliance on the organised sector for official GDP data is causing a gross miscalculation.

In Afghan peace derailment, a wagon of hope

The suspension of U.S.-Taliban talks has opened the space for the global community and India to reset the peace process.

Congress, stuck in a quagmire

Plagued by ideological schisms and impaired by defections and arrests, the grand old party has hit a dead end

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

The exit of John Bolton, and Israel’s diminished influence on Washington, signal a possible reduction in tensions.

Striking a blow for investigative credibility

Probe agencies should be given more freedom to be professional without diluting the controls already in place.

The absentee constitutional court

Unlike in 1976, the judiciary has not upheld the suspension of civil rights — instead, it has ducked, evaded and adjourned

The drumbeaters of dystopia

The Indian media can barely question the state narrative on Kashmir, while global outlets can only pick holes in it

The Amazon fires, an alarm that lacks proportion

The effect of deforestation can be repaired slowly. Fossil fuel emissions cannot be put back in to where they came from

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

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

Steaming back into the Indo-Pacific

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

Putting the skids under border trade

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

A democratic language, an authoritarian writ

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Time to strike the gavel

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

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The display board showing the votes polled during the Citizenship Amendment Bill voting that took place after a seven-hour-long debate in the Lok Sabha, in New Delhi on December 9, 2019. Twitter/@LokSabhaSectt

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