Culture

The Constitutional Conduct Group (CCG) in an Open Letter to the President of India has condemned Odisha police’s wrongful dispossession of Adivasi lands in the state and violent action against protesting tribals

Over the past weeks—even before replacing Nitish Kumar as Chief Minister of Bihar on April 15—Samrat Choudhary has, while campaigning for the Bharatiya Janata Party, claimed that 22-lakh people would be struck off Bihar’s electoral rolls, with their driving licences and other benefits cancelled. The irony, however, is this: the figure of 22-lakh—drawn from the recently conducted, controversial SIR exercise in the state—corresponds only to deceased voters

Retired Army Havildar Md. Daud Ali fought for India in the freezing heights of Kargil, sacrificing his youth and sustaining permanent injuries, today, a mere clerical spelling error has stripped the Murshidabad veteran and his children of their voting rights, forcing a decorated soldier into a humiliating fight for identity

Decoding the Judgement on Sathankulam Custodial Death:Part-3 Witnesses to be Celebrated & Honoured - Adv. Henri Tiphagne

Even as the present leadership of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) attempts to promote itself as a messiah for Indian women, the ideological base of this party is fundamentally patriarchals

Before asking what dangers delimitation poses, we must first examine a more fundamental issue: what are the existing problems, and will delimitation actually solve them? The real crisis in Indian governance today is not a shortage of representatives; it is the over-centralisation of power.