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The Law Commission’s “considered” opinion that Section 124A of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) pertaining to sedition laws should be retained is highly regressive and a complete letdown for the very concept of protection of free speech which is universally considered an integral part of...

A story was reported on 2 June with the headline “Bengal couple accused of being ‘Bangladeshi infiltrators’ freed from Bengaluru jail after 10 months.” The couple were Palash and Shukla Adhikari, who were accused of being foreigners. They spent an extra month in jail after...

For nearly two months, the position of Indian ambassador in Doha has remained unoccupied, leaving a big void in the diplomatic representation of India in Qatar. After the previous ambassador Dipak Mittal returned to India and joined the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), the appointment of...

There is yet another film claiming “real life” story and yet another instance of falsification of facts to suit a particular narrative with obvious intent to serve the interests of a political party. The way a section of the country’s film industry is sacrificing the...

The BJP never tires of accusing the Congress and other Opposition parties of internationalising the Kashmir issue. But, the Centre has needlessly tried to do the same by organising the three-day-long G20 tourism working group meeting in Srinagar last week. The ostensible reason for taking...

The inauguration of the country’s new Parliament Building May 28 should have been an occasion for national celebration, but it got mired in ugly political bickering and a slugfest between the ruling BJP and an Opposition combine of 19 parties. For the unseemly turn of...

The problem of India’s Parliament is the quality of debate, the lack of time spent discussing important legislation, the absence of quality for the most part in speeches, the chaos and anarchy, the horse-trading and the disregarding of Opposition and minority opinion. A new building...

Everyone in India knows that the country is run on a simple principle: Show me the man, and I’ll show you the rule. In fact, rules change depending on how influential or otherwise the person likely to be affected by the rules is. The recent...

Conflict between Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan and the army, which has come to a head after more than a year of troubled relations, has once again brought to the fore the inherent instability of the country’s political system propped by the armed forces....

The most symbolic element of the just concluded G7 summit in Hiroshima is that it took place in the city which, along with Nagasaki, are the only places in the world that had actually experienced the horrors that nuclear weapons can cause. A key agenda...