Along the Mighty Indus, Stories of a Changing River and Evolving Relationships
Dams and barrages with hydropower and irrigation projects are affecting the natural flow of the river, which remains central to the lives of people.
The Economic Situation in 2023-24, Part 2: India’s Appalling Unemployment Crisis
This three part series takes a look at the economic situation in the country in early 2024, in the context of the claims being made by the Modi Government regarding the state of the economy. In the second part of this series, we take a look at the unprecedented unemployment crisis gripping the country.
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The Economic Situation in 2023–24, Part 3: India’s Grim Poverty Situation
In this third part of our review of the economic situation of the country in early 2024, we take a look at India’s poverty levels, and the hunger and malnutrition situation in the country.
What Is the Sixth Schedule? Why Is Ladakh Demanding to be Brought Under It?
The Sixth Schedule of the Indian Constitution aims to protect tribal populations and their interests through autonomous governance. It establishes autonomous institutional mechanisms which have legislative, judicial and executive powers for governance.
Half-Hearted Constitutionalism: The Supreme Court’s Self-Created Conundrums
Even though the Chief Justice of India’s past record gave the nation hope for transformative judicial reform to uphold constitutional morality and fortify fundamental rights under attack from the executive, his tenure has thus far been marked by one letdown after another.
The EAC-PM’s Paper on ‘Muslim Population’ Is a Travesty of Research Practices
An EAC-PM paper claims that the Hindu share of India’s population has fallen between 1950 and 2015 by 7.8%, while that of Muslims has increased by 43% over the same period. The authors question the methodology followed in the paper and hence its findings. Also, extract from: Banjot Kaur, ‘Fact Check: Old Data, New Spin in PM-EAC Report on India’s Population’.
BJP Is Undermining India’s Democratic Credentials – We Must Fight Back Using the Vote, Our Most Important Weapon
BJP’s subversion of the electoral process and Modi’s communal rhetoric undermine credentials of democracy in India. It is time to use the only democratic weapon people have, the vote, responsibly.
Corporate Business and the Financing of Political Parties: An Umbilical Chord
Corporate business financing of politics in India goes back decades. The court ruling on the electoral bonds scheme is not going to end this business-politics nexus. We can only hope that the nexus can be nudged in the direction of greater transparency so that voters can make more informed choices.
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Watching the Steady Decline of Academic Freedom at IIM Ahmedabad
“I’ve not known the restraints now being imposed on the academic freedom to exist on the IIM campus during the last five years. But things have changed”, says the author.
‘Freedom From Fear is the Freedom I Claim for You my Motherland!’
India celebrates the 75th Republic Day on January 26. On this day, 75 years ago, in 1950, the Constitution pledged equality, regardless of gender, caste, religion, class, community or language. It is a fitting time to revisit this poem by Rabindranath Tagore on his vision of a truly liberated India.