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A cry against hollow public life

Students are protesting on their own, as a generation let down by the institutional and political order

The perils of RBI’s fixation on inflation

Pulapre Balakrishnan

The long wait for empowered mayors

G. Ananthakrishnan Mayors in many global cities go on to lead their country; in India it is the opposite story, with politics to be blamed

Sparkling people, a spiritless Opposition

Vidya Subrahmaniam The streets are in ferment over the Citizenship Act, but the political Opposition is still to catch up

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Increasing investment to stimulate growth

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

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State-breaking is not nation making

A top post, its promise and peril

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Choppy waters lie ahead

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The far right’s disruption of globalisation

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.

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

Lessons after the great deluge

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

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

A leaf out of the Chinese playbook

India’s actions in Kashmir increasingly show an authoritarian muscularity, reminiscent of its northern neighbour

Hong Kong adrift and China without an anchor

Beijing should realise that political reform rather than economic lures is what resonates in Hong Kong

The fragility of India’s federalism

The government’s Kashmir move exposes the contingent nature of India’s asymmetric constitutional provisions

Kashmir has been cut to the quick

The Centre is riding roughshod over Kashmiri public opinion already beset with disaffection

Piecing together Kashmir’s audacious road map

The new doctrine will have to persuade Jammu and Kashmir that greater integration with India holds promise

Pulling a Vietnam in Afghanistan

Mired in Afghanistan, America’s retreat strategy mirrors its Vietnam war campaign

A political reinvention in a moment of crisis

India needs a national party to provide substantive opposition to the government — all is not lost for the Congress

Explaining the Asian rate cuts wave

Policy makers across Asia should ensure enough ammunition to manage a prolonged economic downturn

The taproot of conservation justice

Cutting down the Forests Right Act will only weaken the conservation regime and affect the rights of forest dwellers

Finding the data on missing girls

The figure quoted by the government fails to completely take into consideration deliveries in private hospitals.

Marking Tipu’s legacy to foster historical temper

Developing an understanding of our conflictual pasts, and not retribution, is the way to deal with ‘historical wounds’

In hate crime fight, a voice still feeble

Taking the cue from the U.S., the Indian Parliament needs to recognise hate killings as an act of terror

Fortifying the Africa outreach

There is a disconnect between India’s developmental assistance to and economic engagement with the continent

Padding up for the next UNSC innings

India must give exceptional weightage to how all Security Council issues have an impact on the subcontinent

A straightforward lesson on resolution

By not sorting out conflicts between themselves, India and Pakistan are effectively outsourcing the role to third parties

Governing India through fiscal math

A focus on fiscal deficit reduction alone is not sound economic management. The revenue deficit must be in the picture

History and the 5G dilemma

As India looks to developing 5G technology, its quest in the 1980s for an American supercomputer offers lessons

Boris Johnson: gaffeur, entertainer, Brexiteer, Premier

The rise of Johnson, U.K.’s 20th Etonian PM, marks not just the ‘celebrification’ of politics, but also its poisonous triviality

In white nation talk, the voice of the Squad

How the Democratic Party positions itself in the poll run-up cuts to the very heart of its identity and America’s future

Having the last word on ‘population control’

There should be a clear understanding that offering choices and services rather than outright state control works best

A bridge across the India-Pakistan abyss

It would be a travesty to waste the opportunities made possible by the Kartarpur corridor plan

The judicial presumption of non-citizenship

In further strengthening the Foreigners Tribunal, the judiciary has failed to fulfil its duty as the last protector of rights

The tremor of unwelcome amendments to the RTI Act

The Right to Information (Amendment) Bill is a twin attack on accountability and the idea of federalism

The NEP and liberal arts education

The draft’s endorsement of critical thinking would have gained credibility if it had promoted liberal values

At the UNSC, a three-point agenda

India should once again become a consensus-builder, instead of the outlier it has progressively become

Making sense of Karnataka’s politics

Castes and communities are the key players, where gain to one’s community becomes an overriding consideration

A test of law and justice

The challenges made to the 103rd constitutional amendment present a more difficult judicial examination than usual

India's foreign policy needs rework in the next five years

In the coming five years, a host of geopolitical and economic issues need to be reconciled

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