Biodiversity and Samosas: Poisoned Together?
Governments are responsible to protect consumers and stop the spread of unapproved seed varieties and test their toxicity and carcinogenity.
Modi Government’s Partisan Misuse of Institutions has Pushed the Indian Republic to the Brink
Excerpts from Harsh Mander’s JB D’Souza Memorial Lecture to mark the birth centenary of the former civil servant.
Rethinking the Debate on Reservations
On how the Constitution replaces the Brahmanic idea of merit with a modern, democratic, rational, scientific and constitutional idea of merit.
What Muslim Intelligentsia Doesn’t Get About Bhagwat and RSS
The RSS chief said in a recent speech that dialogue is the way out of Hindu-Muslim discord. Can there be any such dialogue considering his own organisation fans this disharmony?
The Roaming of Colonial Phantoms and a History of Resource Plunder
Both the strengths and limitations of early post-independence policies in Africa offer a wealth of lessons for today’s struggles for control over Africa’s resources. The clarity in that period around the importance of African state control over natural resources offers a path forward for contemporary efforts.
Maulana Azad: Founding Father of a Pluralist India, Remembered
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad was not only a frontline nationalist leader but also one of the architects of modern India. He constantly strived as a minister and as an intellectual to synthesize the Islamic, Indian and the Western ideas into a coherent and single pattern for the newly independent nation.
‘This Is Not the India We Fought For,’ Says a 110-Year-Old Protesting Farmer
Gandharv Singh sees stark similarities between the colonial British government he had once resisted and the Modi government he resists today.
Forgetting Freedom
The three ashrams of free thought that are at risk in New India.
Democracy, Distance, Difference, and Disrespect
Democracy is the only form of governance that cultivates the arts and crafts of governance at a respectful distance and always aims at the achievement of what the philosopher John Rawls called “overlapping consensus” for “reasonable pluralism”.
India’s New IT Rules Paving Way for Legitimised Surveillance
As the Indian government is confronted with a global snooping scandal with over 300 journalists, politicians and bureaucrats on the list of those surveilled by the state, the Modi government had intensified its bid to rampage through the country’s latest Internet Technology laws.