How Should We Remember December 6?
How can we hope to become one people if a single event or a date evokes two disparate and antagonistic memories in two sections of the country?
‘One-Nation-One-Election’ Destructive to Our Federal Structure
The Prime Minister’s arguments lack sincerity and are being used only to divert attention from the many flaws in our electoral laws and practices, including those relating to safeguards in the use of EVMs and to the use of post-election defections to gain power.
Urgent Measures Needed to Rescue the Indian Health System; Health Status Is Shocking
The pandemic has unravelled India’s broken health care system and we must implement urgent reforms to fix it.
The Mystery Behind the Aarogya Setu App
The creation of an exclusive, State-driven, contact tracing enhancer for smartphone users in India during Covid times has multiple faults. The primary one is that there is considerable mystery about where the data is being stored and to what extent it is protected.
The Last Straw: Civil Society Must Step In
Each citizen, as Havel once said about totalitarianism, must become iconic of protest from body language to symbolism. When indifference and prejudice becomes a monstrosity of legal indifference, civil society must reinvent democracy as a new politics of caring.
36th Anniversary of Bhopal Gas Leak Tragedy: State Continues to Fail Victims
Statement by the Bhopal Gas Peedith Mahila Udyog Sanghthan (BGPMUS) and Bhopal Gas Peedith Sangharsh Sahayog Samiti (BGPSSS) highlighting the struggle for justice which the gas victims have been relentlessly waging for the past 35 years.
The Supreme Court Sets at Naught the Solemn Guarantee of the Writ of Habeas Corpus
In the case of the journalist Siddique Kappan, the Supreme Court abnegates its own responsibility by treating the writ jurisdiction of the High Courts as an acceptable alternative in disposing of habeas corpus petitions.
How Laws in Pakistan and India Discriminate Against Women from Minority Communities
The Indian and Pakistani constitutions provide equality for all, yet the rights of citizens from different religious groups in matters such as marriage, divorce, maintenance and succession, depend on religious identity.
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Why COVID-19 Granted the U.S. Most Favored Nation Status
Because the ‘Greatest Country in the World’ is so damn savagely capitalist, imperialist-militarist, unequal, plutocratic, and racist.
A Day to Mourn, Not Celebrate, What’s Become of the Constitution
The real disappointment for citizens facing an unprecedented assault on their basic democratic rights is not that the Modi regime is behaving the way it is. The disappointment is with the Supreme Court.