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Justice Lokur: ‘SC Not Fulfilling Its Constitutional Role Adequately, Needs to Introspect’; Bhushan: “Justice Is in ‘Emergency’ Care”; Moitra: SC has forgotten it is a court of rights.
May Day’s roots lie not only in the great U.S. Eight Hour strikes and marches of 1st May 1886; it also has different and older, “green” roots.
Prominent activists, intellectuals, academicians release an online petition for signatures from people to mount pressure on the government to tax the rich to finance much needed relief measures and improvement of health services.
A poet’s appropriation of Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s famous poem for the current times.
Dr Anand Teltumbde’s open letter to the people of India before he was arrested on April 14 by the government on blatantly false charges.
Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay As COVID-19 has unleashed an information epidemic, or infodemic – as a result of which we are constantly plied with an overabundance of information, some accurate and others misleading – it has become very difficult to stay fixated on one ‘window’ on whatever device we’re using. Consequently, commonplace queries get pushed to the…
Madan B. Lokur I’d like to ask Bob Dylan a question for which the answer is not blowing in the wind: How many straws does it take to break a camel’s back? This question arises in the context of the independence of the judiciary which has been tested over the last couple of years as…
Dunu Roy There is no doubt that the Delhi elections have been comprehensively lost by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), but the sub-text is that it improved its vote share from 32.2 per cent in 2015 to 38.5 per cent this time. The Aam Admi Party (AAP) kept its share of 54.3 per cent in…
Badri Raina It is said that the way to hell is paved with good intentions. But did you ever imagine that the way to heaven may, conversely, be paved with not-so-good intentions? However the government of the day may protest that there has been no nefarious intent behind the discriminatory provisions of the…
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…
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