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KASHMIR: TRAGEDY AND FARCE

~By Inderjit Badhwar The latest political crisis in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) in which a government ruling in Delhi has pulled the rug out from under the feet of its regional coalition partner br...

WILL THE NON-YES-MEN PLEASE STAND UP?

~By Inderjit Badhwar Many watching the reality show unfurling in the Delhi lieutenant governor’s waiting room, where the chief minister and three of his cabinet colleagues staged an unprecedented s...

SWAMINATHAN REDUX

~By Inderjit Badhwar “Our cities are not India. India lives in her seven and a half lakh villages and the cities live upon the villages”—MK Gandhi. “It is very sad that farmers who are sustaining l...

A PUNCH IN THE SNOUT

~By Inderjit Badhwar On June 1, 2018, a day after the BJP received a political drubbing in the bypolls across India, The Indian Express carried two headlines on its first page: “Opposition Parties ...

THANK YOU, FATHER

~By Inderjit Badhwar “Lord, God of Abraham, God of the Prophets, God of Love, you created us and you call us to live as brothers and sisters...Keep alive within us the flame of hope, so that with p...

DEFIANT INDEPENDENCE

~By Inderjit Badhwar “Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother … let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in Primers, spelling books, an...

CHANGING TIMES

~By Inderjit Badhwar That the invocation of Karnataka Pride should have become a focal point during the surcharged election campaign should hardly come as a surprise to anybody familiar with the de...

STRANGLING PARLIAMENT

~By Inderjit Badhwar The cover story this week (India Legal magazine) is an example of the continuing alarms that India Legal sounds to warn readers about a general trend that points to the witheri...

THE REPORTER AND THE JUDGE

~By Inderjit Badhwar In a democracy, starting with the People, we all have our crosses to bear. And bear them we must, with fortitude and unadulterated responsibility. Let’s start with my professio...

Will simultaneous polls help democracy?

~By Inderjit Badhwar The issue of holding simultaneous elections to the Lok Sabha and state assemblies is once again in the news. A draft white paper has been released by the Law Commission that re...

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