This article by Salil Tripathi explains whether Gujarat indeed made progress under Narendra Modi, and questions the claim of a few industrialists that he is PM-material. What is interesting about...
I am disappointed that two major newspapers (read edits of Mail Today and Business Standard here and here) have opted to buy my friend Manoj Mitta’s thesis that there is a lacuna in Article 74. (Read...
Subhash Chandra Agrawal is an ordinary man with extraordinary determination. His RTI appeal to the CIC resulted in the latter’s direction to the CPIO, Supreme Court, to share the information...
The Supreme Court stayed on January 23 the Bombay High Court’s judgment upholding the Bombay Municipal Commissioner’s discretion to destroy stray dogs in Mumbai, subject to certain...
This study by Rand Corporation is worth reading, even though it relies much on the published secondary literature in the Indian media after the attacks, and does not reveal anything new as such. The...
With the Prime Minister, Dr.Manmohan Singh having been hospitalised, he will be virtually absent from office on health grounds for a month at least. My friend, Manoj Mitta has suggested in...
DEMOCRACY AND CONSTITUTIONALISM IN INDIA: A STUDY OF THE BASIC STRUCTURE DOCTRINE.BY Sudhir Krishnaswamy. OUP, Rs.625, pp.244. This very significant book, released during the LASSNET Conference in...
The concept of enemy alien began to intrigue me ever since I attempted to write this article. Therefore, I tried to find its basis in our Constituent Assembly Debates (link introduced on the left)...
Over at the Social Blog, Arun and Aditya interview J.M.Lyngdoh, former Chief Election Commissioner on a range of issues including private funding of elections, and elections to students’ unions...
The Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative has released the following documents on Police Reforms. 1. Issues Paper on the National Investigative Agency Act, 2008. 2.The Police-Politician Paradigm: What...