The survivors of the Bhopal gas tragedy have been agitating for justice for several days in New Delhi after walking all the way from Bhopal to press their demands. Some of them are in jail, for...
Today’s Indian Express has a column providing analysis of recent events in Pakistan, focusing on the lawyers’ “Long March” held on June 10 in Islamabad. It is refreshing to...
Corruption in the implementation of the NREGA has been talked about time and again. At the same time, it has been observed by some writers that instances of corruption alone cannot be the ground to...
In an interesting article, titled Arms and Men, Soli J.Sorabjee drew our attention to a judgment by a Division Bench of the High Court in the U.K. stopping executive leniency as reflected in its...
To have our own version of This Day That Age, I searched June 16, 2000 (that is the earliest year available with The Hindu online edition) to read the opinion piece it carried on that day. What I...
The National Minorities Commission ‘s Report on the dwindling number of Parsis in India provides very useful statistical evidence to show that there is a problem. What is disturbing is its...
The following statement has been released by a group of academics and activists to condemn the harassment of political psychologist, Ashis Nandy, for his article and to demand the withdrawal of...
The former Chief Election Commissioner, T.S.Krishna Murthy once succinctly summed up the crisis of Indian democracy in terms of two Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs): money power and muscle power...
Strategic Lawsuits against Public Participation is a well researched and analysed concept in the US. Sunita Narrain discusses its use against activists in India in this article which raises several...
Media analyses of the historic change taking place in Nepal have focused attention on the fall of the kingdom, the rise of the Republic, and the lessons for India from the Maoists’ success in joining...