Sixty years ago, the Communist Party of India split into two. Ideological differences have kept the successor parties apart – and will probably continue to do so – even as domestic politics keeps…
Expanding the Lok Sabha proportionally while preserving existing seats & equally distributing Rajya Sabha seats among states could resolve India’s delimitation deadlock without upsetting…
In the Kashmir Valley, all that the voters who turned out hope for is a restoration of basic rights and that the elected representatives would at least free them from the clutches of the bureaucracy…
The Supreme Court’s concern about unequal access to reservations within beneficiary groups is valid. However, the court and executive should prioritise an evidence-based approach, using data to…
The challenges posed by a delimitation exercise that would result in the North gaining at the expense of the South can be met with a different approach altogether. We could have instead an expansion…
No formal bid has been put in by India to host the 2036 Olympics; no city has been formally identified as the venue. The Indian Olympic Association has its own ideas but Gujarat has decided it will…
Cities that have hosted the Olympics experience economic and social distress during the preparations and thereafter. Should India follow the same path? It is not sportspersons' desire but a…
The hasty injustice meted out through bulldozers demolishing properties of the accused is made possible by selective and wrongful application of rules, all cheered on by political authorities and…
"Data tells us that there is a case of serious under-representation of Muslims in India's legislature. Unless political parties are willing to acknowledge that a significant marker of…
In the midst of a genocidal war against the Palestinians, the global public must yet support a Palestinian anti-apartheid civil disobedience campaign for a single or bi-national state replacing…
