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India’s electoral bonds scheme has been declared illegal, a rare win in court for those resisting authoritarianism. But many elections including the last general one have been fought on these unlawful funds. It would have been appropriate to have heard and adjudicated on the issue...

The white papers and the black papers on the economy have sent a lot of bureaucrats scurrying around for data. Everybody recognizes that these papers are almost political weaponizing of data figures. Still, at the moment, both former bureaucrats and current bureaucrats are locked in...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has taken the world by surprise by giving a two-hour-long interview to an American journalist, launching what experts call a peace offensive to end the ongoing war with Ukraine on his terms only. He has so long been shying away from...

Myanmar’s junta appears to be desperate and on the back foot in the face of spirited resistance by united and rejuvenated armed rebel forces fighting for greater autonomy in various parts of the country and for an end to the dictatorship of the army. Three...

I t is the invisible “bat” of the jailed former cricketer-turned-politician and former Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan that is seemingly silencing the gun of the country’s military establishment. That is the upshot of the results of the general elections in the country. The...

Demolitions in Uttarakhand this month, after which six were killed in violence, follows a pattern we can see in BJP states. The pattern is of course that the government is used to go after citizens, especially Muslims. The demolitions are carried out as a form...

Guess who’s wearing a new hat? Anil Kumar Lahoti, the ex-bigwig at the Railway Board, has just become the head honcho at the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI). A seasoned railway official with an illustrious career, his appointment showcases the versatility and transferability of...

The arrest on 31 January evening and subsequent remand of now former Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren in Enforcement Directorate (ED) custody had come at a time when BJP had already succeeded in its “tod jore” (break and join) politics in the adjacent state of...

The Bard famously wrote, “If music be the food of love, play on.” Music, we were told, transcends geographical borders, narrowness, and bigotry. At a time when fanaticism, anti-poor ideologies, and hatred are stoking passions and blinding people across the globe, the Grammy Awards announced...

BJP-ruled Uttarakhand may soon become the second state in India and the first after Independence to have a Uniform Civil Code (UCC). Goa has a UCC since the Portuguese rule. The final draft of the UCC was approved by the Uttarakhand Cabinet Sunday, paving the...