With a hung Parliament being forecast by all the exit polls, the focus is now on the President, Pratibha Patil. There is a consensus veering around among the observers that she must ask for letters...
The E.C. has generally received praise from the media as well as the political parties for its reasonable success in completing the 15th General Elections satisfactorily. Here, in this press release...
Update: I have been asked why the case is a landmark. I realise now that in my excitement, I failed to highlight the implications of the case properly. There is hardly any DP case where seperate...
Supreme Court yesterday delivered two important judgments. In Union of India vs. Ramesh Ram, the Bench referred the matter to the Constitution Bench. In this case, the question was whether the...
Meera Nanda, in her forthcoming book, God Market: How Globalization is Making India More Hindu, is developing an interesting thesis. It is that the BJP is creating a huge Hindu vote bank. In itself...
Law Commission’s 223rd Report on the need for ameliorating the lot of the have-nots has a chapter on the pending petition in the Supreme Court on beggars’ human rights. This petition is...
The power to countermand elections is an extreme weapon in the hands of the Election Commission to ensure free and fair elections. The ongoing Lok Sabha election has so far not witnessed any...
On NDTV’s discussions on Mandate 2009, Prannoy Roy once made this point that this is the age of the discerning Indian voter. The Indian voter in the 1950s and 1960s was a passive voter, voting...
In a recent post, Vikram reflected on Mayawati and the BJP’s comments and studies the relationship between Dr. Ambedkar and the Congress. In this engaging article, in yesterday’s Indian...
This piece in today’s Wall Street Journal highlights the pressing problem of newspapers (mostly Hindi, Urdu, and Gujarati) selling positive or “not negative” coverage to candidates...