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The fall of Hong Kong

James Carter Jeffrey Wasserstrom

The National Security Law has turned Hong Kong into a colonial city again, with Beijing calling the shots

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A revolution in policy mindset

Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana Kanni Wignaraja Bambang Susantono

The spectre of crowds in the COVID city

Karen Coelho Mathangi Krishnamurthy Post-pandemic habitations must resist retreating into a closeted isolation that only the privileged can afford

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Can open book examinations offer an alternative?

G. Ananthakrishnan Such a system requires a different pedagogy and cannot be force-fitted into the present apparatus

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The fall of Hong Kong

A revolution in policy mindset

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A motorcycle and the art of court management

The spectre of crowds in the COVID city

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Towards national security and peace in Hong Kong

Can open book examinations offer an alternative?

The headline challenge

Rules are to be followed even while trying to be creative

Deepening India-South Korea ties

People from the two countries need to overcome cultural biases and move closer to each other

Are people in J&K citizens or subjects?

It’s nearly a year since they have had 4G Internet and the Supreme Court has done little to enforce its writ

Puncturing a culture of silence

India needs a pro-Constitution, pro-facts, pro-inclusivity Gandhi Project analogous to the Lincoln Project in the U.S.

Transforming higher education

This is a time to bridge the gulf between the university curriculum and actual job requirements

Set up a High Court for Puducherry

The administration must highlight the need to streamline expenses, the case volume and constitutional rights as factors

When schools reopen

The pandemic and the lockdown will have a lasting impact on children and we need to know how to deal with it

Towards robust data regulation

The non-personal data committee’s data governance framework raises many questions

Why are re-purposed medicines expensive?

The burden of a pandemic will have to be borne by governments and pharmaceutical companies alike

The COVID-19 fiscal response and India’s standing

The relief measures do not seem to be commensurate with the economic disruption caused by the lockdown

The meaning of the azan at Hagia Sophia

It will be a milestone in the retreat of secular nationalism that we are seeing across the world

Community canteens 2.0

They can provide food security for migrant workers, create jobs and help save fiscal resources

A template to manage temples

The Supreme Court order on the Padmanabhaswamy temple suggests a template for administrative probity and efficiency

Big reform on the wrong track

The planned privatisation of some services of the Indian Railways could impact maintenance, operations and welfare

A chance to restore the rule of law

The extra-judicial killing of Vikas Dubey is the last wake-up call for our democracy and the judiciary

Why a separate anti-torture law?

The need of the hour is to implement the existing recommendations of various commissions

Make the right call on ‘Malabar’ going Quad

India’s plan for naval coalition building alone will not credibly deter China’s military power in the Indian Ocean

University examination guidelines that score low

The UGC’s insistence on conducting final year varsity tests could end up harming the future of students on many counts

The lost voice of the Indian university

The university administration has been replaced by the Education Minister and his bureaucratic apparatus

On meals enjoyed during field trips

The flavours a reporter gets to relish can’t be found in restaurants

Re-conquering Constantinople

Turkish President Erdogan is invoking perceived historical injustices to conceal policy failures

Should the Gandhis disengage from the Congress?

The strength of the Congress is the Nehruvian thought and the family represents it

Putting victims on trial

Rape myths and stereotypes echo the deeply entrenched patriarchal biases of the players in our justice system

Ring-fencing won’t rescue architecture

It is a profession in crisis but the solution does not lie in placing restrictions on other professionals

India should believe in the EU

Their ties assume significance as a rules-based order gets challenged by the rise of exceptionalism

It’s time to flatten the pandemic stereotyping

Groups labelled COVID-19 superspreaders represent some of the most vulnerable categories in Indian society

Tablighi Jamaat, an island unto itself

It chooses to emphasise some aspects of Islam while underplaying others

Needed: Clear testing data

If Delhi provides a break-up of test numbers, the success of rapid antigen PoC kits can be determined

Sending the right message

Listening to scientists can lead to better management of the pandemic

Viral outrage only spikes the data

Adverse public reaction to bad coronavirus figures could only end up creating incentives to suppress crucial numbers

Yet another challenge to the Dalit movement

The language of mobilisation needs to change

The politics of nepotism

The discourse is a salvo in a battle between two elites: the Nehruvian ‘ancien regime’ and the new faction

The club of virus deniers

Leaders who kept the economy open are having to tackle both a severe health and an economic crisis

To whomsoever it may concern in the INC

The Congress Party needs to reinvent itself and work in a sustained manner if it is to stay politically relevant

Nurturing citizens in social studies

The proposed move of rationalising the syllabus strikes at the target of training good citizens

The travesty of film journalism

Film journalism in India has been reduced to gossip, sensationalism and hype

Hardly smart about urban health care

Despite the renewed policy focus on cities, the pandemic has exposed the weaknesses in handling a public emergency

In the name of ‘cooperative federalism’

There is a huge gap between what the 14th Finance Commission promised to States and what they have received

The problem of being over-reliant on one revenue stream

U.S. universities with already limited fiscal space will now find themselves even further squeezed by the ICE regulations

Is Internet freedom being sacrificed for national security?

The government’s banning of Chinese apps may not have met the proportionality test

Invisible loads, arbitrary deletions

The truncations suggested by CBSE violate the holistic nature of the planned curriculum

Joining the scattered dots

Scatterplots help us to depict the relationship between multiple variables

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