That India cannot afford or find a full-time minister to hold the Railway portfolio tells you the sad story of…
Across the aisle by P Chidambaram: Spin doctors at work Premium Story
Perhaps taking a leaf out of the IPL, spin doctors are in great demand in the current BJP government and…
Across the aisle by P Chidambaram: Rebuff to centralism Premium Story
The two judgments of the Supreme Court have interdicted the drift towards ‘centralism’. The Karnataka verdict has derailed the vaunted…
The top two leaders of the ruling party — PM and HM — made no attempt to defend the record…
Across the aisle by P Chidambaram: OUP: Stoop to conquer Premium Story
As of today, it appears that the Opposition parties do not have a common leader/candidate behind whom they are willing…
Recent events have given rise to the suspicion that the phrase ‘law and order’ may have been infused with perverse…
As the population grew and new human settlements became imperative, the casualty was the water body.
The recent failure was its connivance with the government, when the government embarked upon the reckless adventure of demonetisation (2016).
A routine case that meandered for three years, suddenly acquired urgency and surged forward at lightning speed from resumption of…
Just as ‘free speech’ is guaranteed under Article 19(1)(a) of the Constitution of India, ‘liberty’ is guaranteed under Articles 19…
The US-based Freedom House downgraded India to a “partially free democracy”. V-Dem Institute of Sweden described India as an “electoral…
The increase in the wealth of the country, under the prevailing policies, goes largely to the top 50%
Across the aisle by P Chidambaram: Amrit Kaal questions Premium Story
Notwithstanding the undoubted development, does the government believe there is high incidence of poverty in India?
A dominant government with a majority in the Lok Sabha is usually self-obsessed and does not consult the political parties…
When you read this column on Sunday, January 29, 2023, Mr Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra would have covered about…
The judgement in Kesavananda Bharati vs State of Kerala (1973) contained nothing that should have caused alarm.
Although based on data available only for the first eight months of the financial year, and some numbers are extrapolated,…
The answers to the legal questions may have brought those arguments to a close but a debate will begin on…
