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Recusals & Justice

Above: The five Justices of the Supreme Court, who recused themselves from the Gautam Navalakha bail case, include Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi, Justices NV Ramana, R Subhash Reddy, BR Gavai an...

The French Conundrum

By Dilip Bobb There’s a bizarre connection between the two French-made frontline fighters in the Indian Air Force inventory—the Mirage 2000 and now the first Rafale multi-role fighter handed over t...

Of Air Crashes & Flying Clubs…

By Shobha John Two plane crashes over the last week, one in Telangana and the other in Dhule in Maharashtra, have once again brought the focus on India’s flying schools. In the Telangana crash, a pil...

Lessons from Mahatma

By Niti Singh October 2, 2019 marks the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. Albert Einstein had said of the Mahatma: “Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in ...

Turn On the Animal Spirits

Above: Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman recently announced corporate tax cuts/Photo: UNI With most economic indicators on a downturn, the government needs to kick in a set of reforms that would ...

POCSO Trials: The Ways Are Not Wanting

Above: A girl holds a placard during a protest against the rape of an eight-year-old girl in Kathua/Photo: UNI In an astonishing endeavour, a court in Auraiya, UP, gave a judgment in a record nine ...

Parliamentary Standing Committees: A Well-oiled Machine

Above: A meeting of a parliamentary committee. These panels monitor government action/Photo: iihr.res.in In order to ensure greater accountability of the government to Parliament, subject-based com...

Foreign University Bill: The Balkanisation of Education

Above Illustration: Amitava Sen Is the centre’s move to set up foreign varsities an attempt to create a global secretariat class? Education is not treated as a culture of learning but as a way to q...

Memories of Days Gone By…

Above: Photo credit iyerandmahesh.com By Shobha John Delhi is synonymous with the regal and the ordinary, the old and the new, history and modernity, urban and rural....No other city in India c...

Love in the Time of the Diaspora

By Dilip Bobb There’s a debate raging on twitter on whether Narendra Modi is the only Indian leader capable of attracting such huge crowds, as was witnessed in Houston on Sunday. The irreverent an...

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