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Secrecy, publicity stunt and headline management have become the stock-in-trade of the BJP government at the Centre. Major policy decisions and executive actions undertaken by the government such as Demonetization and nation-wide lockdown after the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic followed this pattern. Each time the...

Climate Change has impacted every single nation around the globe and its effects are accented this year with disastrous results. A lot of promises and assurances towards climate action by rich nations made in various international meets including the United Nations Climate Change Conference or...

A few weeks ago, I wrote a letter to Umar Khalid in jail. It read as follows: “Dear Umar, It is with admiration that one sees you, and the dignity with which you have conducted yourself in this period, and before it. Your persecution is...

The Centre’s longing for an extension to its trusted and tested babus was made obvious when it approached the Supreme Court seeking an unprecedented extension to the Enforcement Directorate (ED) chief SK Mishra. It became the precursor to the extension of tenures of Cabinet Secretary...

The US is experiencing an unprecedented situation in the form of the third indictment of former President Donald Trump for actions he committed when he was in office. A fourth indictment is also on the cards. The irony is each time he has been indicted,...

Four years ago, when the Kashmir move was made (what a different time that was: before CAA, before the farmers protest), the columnist Pratap Bhanu Mehta wrote: “The BJP thinks it is going to Indianise Kashmir. But, instead, what we will see is potentially the...

The suspended Director of the International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), KS James is the most highly rated demographer in the country and among the leading ones in the world. So, naturally, his suspension has become the talk of Delhi’s babu corridors. The official reason...

Many disturbing questions arise out of the Supreme Court order granting bail to activists Vernon Gonsalves and Arun Ferreira in the Bhima Koregaon violence case in which several activists and lawyers were arrested in 2018 on the charge of being part of a Maoist conspiracy....

The colour of the oceans is changing to green from blue. In fact, over half of the world’s oceans – 56 per cent to be precise - have changed their colour in the past 20 years. The phenomenon is sending alarming signals to the scientific...

Israel is dangerously moving towards autocratic rule, the first step of which has been taken when the Knesset (Parliament) passed a law curtailing the power of Israel’s Supreme Court last week. The Opposition walked out of the 120-member House and the Bill got 64 votes...