As the Supreme Court is all set to take up the regular cases from July 15, the list of Specially Directed and Adjourned Matters for the period from July 2008 onwards (the terminal list)has been put...
In a persuasive article in EPW (the access to this link may be denied to non-subscribers later), Ramachandra Guha identifies the obstacles to the writing of contemporary history, and outlines how...
I am posting here the gist of 28th JP Memorial Lecture delivered on 23 March 2008 at Gandhi Peace Foundation, Delhi, by Professor Yogendra Yadav of CSDS. I read the text of this lecture in The...
In today’s Hindu, Tarunabh and I have underlined the three major infirmities in the Rajasthan Government’s compromise with the Gujjars who ended their agitation recently. The larger...
HINDU NATIONALISM AND GOVERNANCE Edited by John McGuire& Ian Copland,OUP, 2007, Rs.695, pp.476. This book is a significant contribution to the study of BJP in power. With the BJP making a...
Frustrated with the Central Government’s lack of action in bringing about a nationwide “traditional knowledge” policy, the State Government of Kerala decided to take matters into...
The recent arrest of the Andhra Jyothi editor and the reporters has justifiably raised concerns about the freedom of press. Commentators have already termed it as a tussle between social justice and...
This week, my choice of the book for the blog is India Revisited: conversations on contemporary India (OUP, 2008)written by Ramin Jahanbegloo, an Iranian scholar who suffered imprisonment in his...
I thank Mr. Venkatesan for drawing my attention to the article on surrogacy by Amrita Pande and the editorial in Mail Today. The government is apparently planning to bring in new legislation to...
Rarely, Members of Parliament are evaluated for their work as Members of Parliament. This is not surprising, as MPs, first and foremost, are party men and women, and their role and contribution to...
The following are links to some important articles on subjects which are of interest to us and on which some of us may be interested in sharing our reflections. (I have relaxed the standards of...
This edit in the latest EPW complements Tamil Nadu for being the first State to recognise the rights of the transgender, treating it as a third category. A recent order by the Education Department of...
Voters in Chhattishgarh have recently exercised their ‘right to recall’ elected representatives. Although the general reception of the idea, strongly advocated by Lok Sabha Speaker...