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M.g. Devasahayam

M.g. Devasahayam

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Newspapers were strangled during Emergency, but stayed alive. Now, they’re not even breathing

The government cut off electricity to newspaper offices on 26 June 1975, the day after the Emergency was proclaimed, in order to buy time to set up...

25.06.2025 10

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M.g. Devasahayam

With its Tacit Support For the Waqf Bill, the Catholic Church Has Violated Canon Law

10.04.2025 10

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Why there's a Need for an All India Judicial Service

26.03.2025 10

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India’s Civil Services: Has Cowardliness Become a Virtue?

22.01.2025 10

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Justice Chandrachud’s Mega-legacy Could Sink India’s Electoral Democracy

The recent Maharashtra assembly election results were stunning. The three main parties of the defector-infested NDA government won a landslide...

29.11.2024 10

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The Unexplained, Last Minute Increase in Voter Turnout in Haryana Raises Fresh Doubts About Election Integrity

The Haryana election results and the Congress party’s unhappiness with the Election Commission of India (EC) has reactivated the fierce debate on...

17.10.2024 6

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Policing with Mortars and Machine Guns — Is this the “Manipur Solution"?

As violent anarchy started engulfing the tiny state of Manipur in early May 2023 there was a forlorn cry from a veteran lieutenant general, L....

25.09.2024 4

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Why Governance Is to Blame for India's Olympic Drought

It would have been an embarrassingly humiliating Olympic drought for India at Paris but for young Manu Bhaker, barely out of her teens, shooting...

31.08.2024 5

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