As the ‘movement’ around Anna Hazare gathers steam, I wrote this op-ed in yesterday’s The Indian Express. It takes further some ideas I was exploring here .
The Lokpal Bill has been carefully dissected on these pages. I use another scalpel, in this essay in the latest Economic & Political Weekly on what the Anna Hazare movement and India’s...
To add to the detailed post that Arun has put up, here is an opinion piece I wrote on Binayak Sen’s conviction. It appeared in The Hindu newspaper. I’ve been following and reporting the...
Pratap Mehta recently wrote on stinging piece on the need for “introspection” in the HRD ministry in The Indian Express. I don’t know enough to judge the substance, but the tone of...
Prabhat Patnaik’s article in the latest EPW on how the Left must adopt a “rights-based approach” to development makes for enjoyable reading. Patnaik has long been the key economic...
For those of you who endured the three-hour-plus gore fest that is ‘Raajneeti’, there are deeper insights than the film’s hackneyed ending allows for. In this opinion piece in...
What to make of Sevli v. State of Karnataka, and the tension between investigative imperatives and a suspect’s right against self-incrimination? In this opinion piece in today’s The...
AMU’s gay lecturer Ramchandra Siras, was first illegally filmed in a compromising position with another man, then suspended by AMU. Though reinstated by the Allahabad High Court, he was found...
Have written an opinion piece in today’s The Indian Express, critical of the three-day Independent People’s Tribunal on Tribals, land grab and Operation Greenhunt. Would be glad to know...
Images of a tense, sweaty (it could of course have been a charade) Tony Blair fielding questions on his decision to go into Iraq is no substitute for punishment. But is that the purpose of an Inquiry...