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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…
Tarique Anwar A record crowd of over 50,000 people gathered at the protest site at Shaheen Bagh in Jamia nagar locality in Southeast Delhi on Sunday, January 12 evening to extend solidarity to protesting women, who have been staging a ‘dharna’ (sit-in) at Kalindi Kunj-Noida highway for the past 28 days—protesting against the CAA–NPR–NRC….
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…
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…
Prabhat Patnaik When income growth slows down in an economy, so does the growth of tax revenue within the given tax regime. Since the government has certain expenditure obligations, to meet these obligations it has to either impose additional taxes or expand its fiscal deficit. Enlarging the fiscal deficit in such a situation,…
Constitutional Conduct Group On 6 December 2019, 46 former civil servants, most having held positions of great prominence during their careers, wrote an open letter addressed to the people of India expressing deep concern on where the nation stands today, 27 years since the Babri Masjid was demolished by Hindu activists on December 6,…
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…
Fr. Cedric Prakash Exactly, seventy years ago on November 26, 1949, the Constituent Assembly of India adopted and gave to “we, the people” a landmark Constitution. ‘The Constitution of India’ is the sacred book of every Indian citizen; it is a bulwark of fundamental rights and directive principles, which are a prerequisite for any…
Subhash Gatade (Presentation made at Dept of Social Work, Delhi University, during their programme centred around 1st Ambedkar Memorial Lecture.) “If Hindu Raj does become a fact, it will no doubt, be the greatest calamity for this country. No matter what the Hindus say, Hinduism is a menace to liberty, equality and fraternity….
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