~By Inderjit Badhwar
The issue of holding simultaneous elections to the Lok Sabha and state assemblies continues to hog the headlines as India inches closer to state elections followed by the natio...
Above: Kedarnath was devastated by flash floods in 2013/Photo: Rajeev Tyagi
~By Inderjit Badhwar
As this week’s cover story demonstrates, India has an abysmal record of paying heed to warnings o...
~By Inderjit Badhwar
To run this vast and diverse land, its leaders need not have 56-inch chests, but hearts as large as the universe.
In their desperate search for a credible lineage to establi...
Above: The Khir Bhawani Temple in Ganderbal, J&K, was completely safe even though the BJP had claimed that it was "completely burnt"
~By Inderjit Badhwar
That last tongue-twister in the head...
~By Inderjit Badhwar
Our cover story focuses this week on what could be the biggest human rights issue the nation has faced since it gained Independence—the prospect of deportation hanging like the...
Above: The Sabarimala Temple board has argued in the SC that the state is permitted to interfere in the religious matters of its people but only on limited grounds
~By Inderjit Badhwar
Several y...
Above: Muslims protesting against mob lynching in Ahmedabad/Photo: UNI
~By Inderjit Badhwar
We return, again, on this page, and in our cover story—and we shall do so repeatedly as and when the o...
Above: The Dimapur lynching incident in March 2015. An alleged rapist was taken out of a local jail and killed in full public view
~By Inderjit Badhwar
Shiv Visvanathan’s cover story in our p...
~By Inderjit Badhwar
After the Supreme Court delivered its historic verdict last week on what is popularly known as the Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) Delhi government versus the lieutenant-governor, a l...
~By Inderjit Badhwar
The Supreme Court took a welcome, forward-looking step last week by allowing journalists to carry mobile phones—in silent mode—inside the court rooms. Earlier, only accredited ...