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Gautam Bhatia On 7 February, a two-judge bench of the Supreme Court handed down a judgment holding that Article 16(4) of the Constitution is only an enabling provision, and does not confer a “right” to reservations. The context of the case was as follows: in 2012, the government of Uttarakhand decided to fill up…
Harish Khare As is their wont, our new rulers can be relied upon to convert Mahatma Gandhi’s 150th anniversary into an event on a staggering scale; but it is important not to be taken in by this grand lip-service. Rather, it is imperative for every Indian to remember that the greatest Indian of…
G.G. Parekh, Neeraj Jain The ruling Modi–Shah duo led BJP government’s attempts to make alternations in the Indian Constitution have sparked off protests across the country, protests which are unique in the sense that it is the first time since Independence that people are coming out on the streets to defend the Constitution. In…
Constitutional Conduct Group A group of 106 former senior bureaucrats with the government of India have organised themselves as the Constitutional Conduct Group. Most of them were IAS, and include IPS, IRS, IFS officials. They include top former Secretaries, DGPs and even RAW officials. The signatories include former National Security Advisor Shivshankar Menon; former…
Siddharth Varadarajan Let us set aside the anger and revulsion, disbelief, helplessness and perhaps even fear that many of you would have felt over Sunday night’s events at Jawaharlal Nehru University, and let us also postpone the question of who those masked thugs were that beat up students and faculty, and destroyed public property…
Samrat Chakrabarti It began simply and without fuss. On the night that Jamia Millia Islamia was attacked, ten women walked out of their homes and onto the road next door that connects Delhi with Uttar Pradesh with a resolve not to move, come what may. These women who describe themselves as jahil and…
Sidharth Bhatia Over the last few years, the brutal years of Hitler’s reign have often been invoked to compare the situation in India now with Nazi Germany in the 1930s and ‘40s. Memes showing Narendra Modi as Hitler and the RSS as modern day Nazis are popular and were seen on many placards during…
G.G. Parekh, Neeraj Jain Being a citizen is the supremest identity that a person has; in contrast, being declared non-citizen (or a foreigner) effectively means the person becomes stateless, which condemns him/her to civil death—a person becomes deprived of almost all his civil rights. The Indian Constitution granted citizenship by birth to all people; after…
More than 600 artists, writers, academicians, ex-judges and former bureaucrats have released an open letter asking the Narendra Modi-led government to withdraw the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, terming it is “discriminatory, divisive”, and violative of the secular principles enshrined in the Constitution. Here is the full text of the letter. Since independence, Indian citizenship has…
Subhash Gatade (This article has been edited by us for reasons of space. The full article is available on Janata blog.) At a time when we are witnessing a concerted attempt from the powers that be to water down Ambedkar’s legacy and appropriate his name to peddle an agenda which essentially hinges around…
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