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Madras High Court has ordered strict compliance with Tamil Nadu's abolition of the 'orderly system'. In ending this colonial-era practice, southern...
The enhanced budget helps, but internal stock-taking and preliminary steps have to be taken before the tagline Sahkar Se Samriddhi—from co-operation...
The BJP would have a tough time balancing the interests of all its units—which seek a foothold both in the centre and the states.
This census will map both the numbers and the incomes of various caste groups. Thereby providing a basis for those who call to exclude the 'creamy...
To understand why 1971 became the basis for India's constituencies, one has to revisit the Malthusian fears that dominated development discourse.
Once the results of the first digital census start appearing, about 16 months from now, they will open a Pandora’s Box of multiple divides and...
In his bilateral talks with Ayub Khan, Lal Bahadur Shastri said while India had never accepted the two-nation theory, some elements in Pakistan were...
According to India, the war was started by Pakistan on 5 August. But for Pakistan, the date of commencement of the 1965 war was 3 September.
The Soviets paid great attention to protocol at the Tashkent talks. Arrangements for the two delegations were exactly the same. It was also backed by...
After the success of the farmers’ agitation, 14 unions came together to contest the 2022 Punjab Assembly elections under the Samyukta Samaj Morcha....
In his book, ‘Joint Farming X-rayed’, Chaudhary Charan Singh marshalled facts from the FAO, USDA, and independent newspapers to show that...
After the illegal detention of Prema Wangjom Thongdok at Shanghai airport, China once again fell back on a deliberate playbook it has used for...
Every piece of legislation should have an inbuilt date of review to ensure that changes are made by design, rather than by default or to score...
It wasn't the negotiations with Naga rebel leaders that marked the turning point for the state. It was the establishment of the Department of...
The Wakhan Corridor, located in Afghanistan’s Badakhshan province, borders PoJK, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and China’s Xinjiang — once linking these...
Uttarakhand has the technology, funds, and administrative capacity to become the first zero-poverty state in India, thus fulfilling the first two...
1965 war mattered more than it’s given credit for. Especially Pakistan’s mistakes.
After a hiatus of three decades, India-China border trade was resumed through Lipulekh pass in 1992. But the volumes were nowhere close to the earlier...
As the discussions in the centre progressed, it became clear that the establishment of a border force was not just a response to immediate threats but...
While the CBI has built its reputation as a premier crime investigation agency by cracking high profile cases, many other cases have remained...
Set up by Lal bahadur Shastri, the Santhanam Committee's key concern was that corruption, once limited to the lower rungs of the bureaucracy, had now...
The Food Corporation of India has the technology, human resources, and financial muscle to implement the policy directives of the government.
A quiet transformation took place in India’s rural economy within five years of MSP’s introduction. All doubts about India's ability to feed...
Lal Bahadur Shastri’s 1964 visit to Gujarat convinced him of the virtues of the cooperative dairy model established by Tribhuvandas K Patel and...
Biraj Adhikari blames the MEA for treating the Chogyal’s 1956 visit as a ‘state visit’ and playing the Sikkim anthem. His book captures his...
The story of Sikkim's accession to India has been told by outsiders—journalists, civil servants
Manipur's demand for inclusion in the Fifth or Sixth schedule is valid. The state also needs financial and technical support for high-value...
The Supreme Court’s delimitation order for Manipur and other Northeast states risks deepening ethnic fault lines in a volatile region.
The census that should inform post-2026 redistricting is nowhere in sight. Still, many possible options are being discussed in anticipation of the...
Up until 1976, seats in the Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha, and state assemblies were reallocated to maintain nearly equal population representation. But the...
The techniques of the Chipko Movement became the order of the day for the Uttarakhand statehood demand as well.
Ironically, the very demonstration of people’s attachment to their local ecology was used by centralised decision-makers to alienate them from it.
The popular characterisation of the Chipko movement as an ‘eco-feminist movement’ that started on 26 March 1974 is true, but only partially.
While the new law prioritises land conservation and local interests, it may slow down economic growth and investment.
What constitutes ‘land,’ who is an ‘outsider,’ and who can grant exemptions have long been contested. These questions have played out in many...
India needs a transparent, institutional mechanism to look at both the short and long-term implications of tariffs. A nation must also protect...
When any political executive has to choose between loyalty and competence, the former takes priority. And I say this with authority, having worked...
Sometimes, those who claim to be part of the deep state ascribe to themselves a larger-than-life role in state affairs—for example, AS Dulat and...
With regard to divorce, the UCC brings in provisions that penalise extrajudicial divorce modes—including talaq-us-sunnat, talaq-i-biddat, khula,...
Contrary to popular perception, Uttarakhand will not be the first, but the second state in the country with a UCC.
The Jagjit Singh Dallewal-led agitation for ‘legal MSP’ is a pale shadow of the 2020-21 movement against new farm laws. MSP may not be as salient...
Amid the ongoing ideological slugfest, I strongly recommend reading Ambedkar in his own words. For his acolytes, it is important to remember...
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