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Better late than never. Two days after the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, the Supreme Court has stated on 27 July 2026 that there cannot be police excesses or violence merely because there is an agitation. The three-judge Bench, headed by Chief Justice...

A quote from Milan Kundera goes thus: The final stage of a cultural movement is satire. When the people laugh at the powerful, the regime is already dead. The resignation of Union Minister for Education Dharmendra Pradhan 25 July in the wake of an unprecedented...

By Aakar Patel Many are puzzled by the size of the current protests and the speed with which they sprang up. To understand the environment that produced this anger, we need to set aside the immediate issue over which the youth have mobilised and step...

By Dilip Cherian What happens when the fence begins to eat the crop? In Delhi’s babu circles, this question is no longer rhetorical. Disputes over the Gymkhana Club and the Delhi Golf Club were largely about land, privilege and entitlement, but the Central Secretariat Club...

Roger Waters once wrote: Tide is turning; Satellite buzzing through the endless night; Exclusive to moonshots and world title fights; Imagine what it must be earning; Who is the strongest; Who is the best; Who holds the aces……….. Inevitably, the tide has to turn because...

The resignation of about 120 scientists and engineers from the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), including those associated with top missions such as Gaganyaan, Chandrayaan-3 and the LVM-3 launch vehicle, should ring alarm bells for those who care about the country’s strategic ambitions. The government,...

As Parliament prepares to convene for the Monsoon Session on Monday, 20 July, the Modi government stands accused of shrinking the space for democratic dissent. The police intervention to end activist and educationist Sonam Wangchuk’s 21-day hunger strike at Jantar Mantar paints a disturbing picture....

By Aakar Patel A few thoughts on the Cockroach Janata Party’s protest come to mind. The hunger strike by activists, including Sonam Wangchuk, had one demand: the Minister of Education should resign. Why? Because the minister failed at one of the most important tasks he...

Governments are quick to invoke the rule of law but are less good at living by it. The Department of Personnel and Training’s decision to void the Food Ministry’s suspension of an FCI Executive Director is a case in point. By declaring the order non...

With the retail inflation in India climbing to 4.38 per cent, tell tale signs of the global economic crisis have started showing up. Driven by higher fuel and food costs, the headline inflation rate has already breached Reserve Bank of India's medium-term target of 4...