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AMBEDKAR’S DIRE WARNING

~By Inderjit Badhwar BhimRao Ambedkar is once again the political flavour of the season. As Dalit agitations flare up across the nation, highlighting the dilution and sidestepping of laws aimed at ...

KEEP THE REPUBLIC GOING, FOLKS

~By Inderjit Badhwar A prominent news website recently quipped that Information and Broadcasting Minister Smriti Irani had most likely failed to remember the meaning of her first name. The word “sm...

THE WISDOM OF FLEXIBILITY

~By Inderjit Badhwar Andhra Pradesh supremo N Chandrababu Naidu has all but called it quits with his alliance partner, the BJP, over the issue of “special status” for his state. Political compulsio...

HISTORY AT YOUR SERVICE?

Above: (Clockwise from top left) Renowned historian Romila Thapar, British archaeologist the late Mortimer Wheeler and renowned historian Irfan Habib   ~By Inderjit Badhwar Ever since Prime Min...

ARBITRATION: GOVERNMENT’S FORWARD MARCH

Above: PM Modi at the conference on National Initiative towards Strengthening Arbitration and Enforcement held in New Delhi in October 2016/Photo: UNI ~By Inderjit Badhwar Because there’s so muc...

IT’S RAINING LENINS ALL THE TIME

~By Inderjit Badhwar It is ironical indeed that Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, the founder of the Bolshevik-ruled state of the erstwhile Soviet Union, should meet his latest iconoclastic demise in so remot...

MAKE IN INDIA BITES THE DUST

By Inderjit Badhwar Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “Make in India” initiative has been a bit of a flop. The defence sector, anointed as the lead agency in what could have been a laudable scheme “en...

THE ACHHE DIN OF BILL & MELINDA

~By Inderjit Badhwar Bill and Melinda Gates, the known universe’s richest power couple—until they recently surrendered that position by a hair’s breadth to Amazon Czar and Czarina Jeff and MacKenzi...

TWO GENTLE GIANTS

~By Inderjit Badhwar Every day in the weekly life cycle of India Legal is special. Who knows what news will come tumbling out of the courts at any given moment? Expectancy nourishes excitement. But...

PEOPLE POWER VS SIMULTANEOUS ELECTIONS

~By Inderjit Badhwar To be fair to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the proposal to hold national and state elections simultaneously preceded his recent public advocacy of it by nearly two decades. As...

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