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Meena Menon
A Coup De Grâce for Farmers and Agriculture
23 Sep 2020
The perplexing new bills become clear once you realise they are not meant to help farmers but private players with money to invest in contract farming.
Hiren Gohain
Time for Another Extraordinary Press Conference
22 Sep 2020
The flagrant attacks on democratic freedoms have not met with serious resistance in the legislature.
Ramdas Rupavath
For India’s Tribes, Democracy Also Means Resisting Alienation
18 Sep 2020
The present regime wants to accustom people to oppression, including Adivasis, whose votes it needs for a tyranny of the majority.
Hiren Gohain
Culture of Assertion Versus Culture of Discussion
10 Sep 2020
The attacks on dissent are a starting point of despotism, which eventually abolishes freedom of speech.
Subhash Gatade
Has Indian Democracy Been Facebooked?
06 Sep 2020
Those who disagreed that the internet would challenge dictatorships have been proven right.
Hiren Gohain
Of Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories
04 Sep 2020
The tendency to conceal vital information and declare rivals enemies of the state is hurting Indian democracy.
Pratik Patnaik
From Jesus to Jayalalithaa: Can the 'Majority' be Wrong?
26 Aug 2020
Is democracy just the rule of the majority, or is it something more than that? The author, a practicing advocate and an ardent believer in constitutionalism, breaks down the puzzle of rule by numbers…
Hiren Gohain
‘Scandalising’ the Courts
17 Aug 2020
Is it possible that a mere tweet, even by an influential person, can discredit an institution that is in sound health?
Hiren Gohain
New Exploitation Policy
03 Aug 2020
These education “reforms” will deepen class-divisions and widen disparities. The NEP is a bad omen for our democracy.
Badrinath Rao
UP Ordinance: Recovering Damages While Running Over Constitutionalism
29 Jul 2020
Why target only activists and dissenters for destroying public property? Why not make big business also pay for repeated land grabs and plundering of public resources?