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Gen Z movements are swift and successful but struggle to do the slow work of institutional transformation.
A country confident in its institutions does not need to fear every dissenting idea. It can allow the argument to take place and trust its citizens to...
Decades of policy choices neglecting human development, especially education, are coming home to roost.
Rampant mining and deforestation have shaken the very core of the region’s fragile ecologies.
While broligarchy may be taking over the world, left-pro-bros closer home work hard to protect each other.
A licence to practise law cannot be a leash that stretches back into the classroom.
Those opposed to the majoritarianism and authoritarianism of the Modi regime are accused of being members of a ‘tukde-tukde gang’.
The only relevant question is whether the law enforcers exercised their authority in a manner consistent with the values of a constitutional...
Dressing the national team in the signature colour of the BJP-RSS cloaks the squads in a shade freighted with politics and sectarianism.
A discussion moderated by author and activist Harsh Mander.
Once an FIR is registered, its fate is governed by investigation, prosecutorial judgment and judicial scrutiny, not by an executive announcement.
Student leaders tell Harsh Mander about the growing sense of betrayal among India’s students.
A key factor in including India on the Civicus watchlist is the continued judicial persecution of human rights defenders and protest leaders.
The response to movement exposes the cost of allowing legitimate caution to become a substitute for civic engagement.
The jokes represent a shift in where political communication begins: among protesters themselves, before it reaches those in power.
In Britain, from where India borrowed its system of government, the party and the cabinet still provide enviably robust guardrails of institutional...
The Modi-Shah government has displayed arrogant contempt for the democratic rights of the people of the region.
A parliament that does not adequately represent disagreement cannot expect citizens to confine their democratic frustrations within its walls.
Would that spell an end to Modi’s troubles?
If more husbands were like Virginia Woolf’s husband, the world would be a much happier place.
The eerie resonances of ‘Main Vaapas Aaunga’.
Walking is the most common mode of transport in cities. Yet pedestrians receive the least attention in urban planning and public investment.
The US military has dropped ‘Indo’ from the name of its Pacific command. Should India make Atlantic lemonade from a Pacific lemon?
Nehru created the specialised cadre in 1954 to administer the North East Frontier Agency, as present-day Arunachal Pradesh was known at the time.
The country’s two most powerful men are obsessed with expanding their political power. Strengthening the economic security of all Indians is not a...
The future of humanity depends on cooperating with others to form larger movements of change towards a common cause that all care about.
The country’s economic challenge is not a shortage of optimism. It is a shortage of institutional imagination.
The future of the habitable world will not be written exclusively in the halls of parliaments but in the micro-decisions of the millions who inhabit...
The order invokes fraternity as a constitutional idea linked to apology, pedagogy, and social reform. But could it weaken enforcement of the...
His column reduces the struggle for the soul of the Republic to criticising the personal failings of a single individual.
Responses to articles in Scroll.in.
The Congress remains a family firm, headed by a man who lacks discipline, gravitas and a curriculum vitae.
The new text on the panel at a memorial does not decolonise the archive – it damages historical clarity.
Students who were forced to drop out because of the prohibition deserve institutional rehabilitation.
The partnership between Jawaharlal Nehru and Vallabhbhai Patel was unquestionably the finest and most constructive.
The expulsion of the institution’s former president and two other veteran journalists is a sign of how spaces for democratic discussion are...
They claim that they want to to repair rather than overturn or escape the existing political system.
In Delhi, the party did impressive work overhauling the schooland improving public health facilities.
Three years after the violence started, the chasms within Manipur society are deep, divided by trenches and buffer zones guarded by armed groups.
Ensuring the safety, rights and participation of Iran’s women is not only a moral imperative: it is essential to any sustainable path forward.
It is a reminder of how easily the discourse of religion can be mobilised by the privileged, abstracting away from the material deprivations of the...
The US president is fundamentally weakening a country he promised to make great again.
When hundreds of members are squeezed into a session, meaningful deliberation vanishes. Parliament becomes a rubber stamp – as it is in China.
By fixing the small problems, administrations build political legitimacy by reassuring citizens that they are paying attention.
Four hate speech events occurred in the country per day on average last year. How is this altering the social fabric?
For five Indian states, the Gulf conflict is not a foreign policy concern. It is a slow fiscal emergency.
Only one member of the Indian team in the final of the recent T20 World Cup, would command a place in the country’s Test team – Jasprit Bumrah.
A country with genuine confidence in its own direction does not need another country on its front page every morning.
As visibility and irony shape the experience of shortages, queues have turned into content.
The legislation recasts transgender persons as objects of suspicion instead of citizens with rights.
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