Aadhar – Will the Government be able to overcome Court resistance
The Government has been pushing for Aadhar to be the dominant identity of the common citizen (although the recent Supreme Court strictures on making Aadhar only applicable to Indian citizens puts some...
View ArticleHow the Congress party was narrowly saved by an old warrior and a newbie
Since Rahul Gandhi’s unprecedented and explosive remark publicly trashing the ordinance introduced by the UPA government led by his own party, the Indian National Congress, and awaiting the...
View ArticleThe Supreme Court decision on Section 377 – not in keeping with the times ..
The position on homosexuality is controversial the world-over, with religious feelings causing different reactions in different countries. For countries that are deeply inspired by Christian or Islamic...
View ArticleAadhar – will it continue after the court order ?
This is something that has me terribly confused. And when I try to make sense out of it, the conclusion that comes out of the whole Aadhar affair is that somebody (or a number of people) in the...
View ArticleGetting back black money of Indians from overseas: Who is serious ?
The concept of getting back black money deposited by Indian abroad is an old concept. Most research and studies predict that Indians have a large amount of black money abroad, located in different...
View ArticleDemocracy and the marginalisation of its institutions
It is trite to emphasise that for proper and healthy functioning of democracy, the major institutions, that build up this edifice mankind by and large have come to consider nearly the best way to...
View ArticleFreedom of Speech is Freedom of Speech
The supreme court of India has struck down the controversial Section 66A of the Information Technology Act as unconstitutional. This is a welcome decision. This is one such judicial case on top of...
View ArticleThe Uttarakhand gamble – the courts are now the decision makers
The current situation in Uttarakhand finally seems to have been resolved, but not in the way that the BJP would have wanted. A situation which looked tricky initially has now become a public relations...
View ArticleSecond setback in experiments in Govt formation – Arunachal Pradesh
It would be easy to explain this off as a byproduct of the tension that the Modi Government has been having with the judiciary. However, there might be a kernel of truth in the sense that the relations...
View ArticleThe Supreme Court continues to crack the whip on the BCCI
For the past few years, there has been increased pressure on the BCCI to clean up its act, and there has been a corresponding counter pressure by the BCCI that they will not change. The BCCI controls a...
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