India’s Anti-Conversion Laws: The Death of Secularism

The Karnataka bill on conversions goes much further than the laws enacted in other states in its infraction of liberty and it contains a raft of illegitimate provisions. Its intentions have been laid bare by the belligerence that has accompanied its advocacy.▶03-Jan-2022
Suhrith Parthasarathy

January 7, 2022

India’s Anti-Conversion Laws; Grief, Rage, Hope and Kindness; Beyond the BCCI; and more

Is India Experiencing a K-Shaped Recovery?

Well before Omicron arrived, all the evidence was that far from a robust economic recovery, India had been witnessing a rebound only in the the formal sector. The informal sector and labour have been…
▶06-Jan-2022
D Narayana

Beyond the BCCI

If we want to know how the country is being run, we only need to look at how the Board of Control for Cricket in India is managed.
▶04-Jan-2022
Sushant Singh

Covid-19 and the Informalisation of India’s Salaried Workers

The pandemic forced a fraction of India's salaried workers to fall back on self-employment or casual work, or to withdraw from the workforce entirely. It was only the salaried who held secure…
▶03-Jan-2022
Rosa Abraham, Amit Basole

India’s Anti-Conversion Laws: The Death of Secularism

The Karnataka bill on conversions goes much further than the laws enacted in other states in its infraction of liberty and it contains a raft of illegitimate provisions. Its intentions have been laid…
▶03-Jan-2022
Suhrith Parthasarathy

Disaster at the Margins

Chennai's floods are embedded within inequality and the wider ecology of disasters in low-income settlements. Seeing their regularity purely as planning and engineering problems neglects this…
▶23-Dec-2021
Aditya Ramesh

From Lucknow to Delhi

The BJP may well return to power in Uttar Pradesh in 2022. But if a rejuvenated opposition manages to limit the incumbent's victory tally, that could reshape the contours of the 2024 national…
▶22-Dec-2021
Sudha Pai

The Legal and the Lethal

AFSPA keeps apart ideas of law and justice; a separation that makes the Nagas 'killable', as in Oting. The law incorporates them into the Indian nation-state as rights-deprived subjects —…
▶22-Dec-2021
Jelle J.P. Wouters
Covid-19

Grief, Rage, Hope and now to A Place of Kindness

We must grieve for the millions who died in 2021 from Covid-19; we must also feel rage that the State was not responsive to their suffering. Groups of citizens stepped in to care for each other; that…
▶22-Dec-2021
Harsh Mander

Lost in the Haze

Despite the serious pollution and health concerns about emissions from coal-based power plants, the many norms that the government has notified remain largely on paper. Will India ever operate under…
▶20-Dec-2021
Maria Chirayil, Ashok Sreenivas, Shripad Dharmadhikary

Can India’s Flagship Public Health Insurance Scheme Do What it Promises?

PMJAY promised to fix India's patchy heathcare coverage and reduce hospitalisation costs for the poor. Four years into its existence, the scheme needs to pause expansion, learn, and consolidate.
▶15-Dec-2021
Mayur Trivedi