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March 25, 2024

PM Modi could swing Tesla to India

On March 15, the government announced a new scheme to promote investment in EVs. Any company willing to invest $500 million in a new manufacturing facility that begins production in three years…

Modi & ‘fake news’

ON April 2, India’s minister for information and broadcasting, Smriti Irani, announced measures to curb ‘fake news’. Based on a complaint of its dissemination, a journalist’s accreditation would be “suspended” pending the…
April 15, 2018

Disfiguring Ambedkar’s vision

Today the nation celebrates the birth anniversary of one of her greatest sons, B R Ambedkar. At the same time, atrocities against Dalits are rising, there is widespread agrarian distress, the rights…
April 15, 2018

The ‘Muslim-first’ Doctrine

Justice Shaukat Siddiqui of Islamabad High Court, in his March 9 ruling, wants all citizens to identify themselves by their faith. He wants “applicants for public offices to declare their beliefs before…
April 15, 2018

WHEN THE PRESS ROSE UP FOR FREEDOM

The history of the press in Pakistan is scantily documented. Apart from Zamir Niazi, not many were able to keep a record of the highhandedness of state authorities that journalists had to…
April 15, 2018

REVOLUTIONARIES AT HOME

More than one critic has described Yuri Slezkine’s The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution as a 21st century analogue of classic 19th and 20th century works of fiction,…
April 15, 2018

LOST IN TRANSLATION?

Rita Chowdhury’s novel Chinatown Days — published as Makam in Assamese in 2010 and translated recently into English by the author — spans several generations of a Chinese community that was brought…
April 15, 2018

No place for young girls

In Kathua and Unnao, the common feature is the blatant support given by BJP leaders to those accused of rape The child was just eight years old. The beautiful image showing her…
April 14, 2018

Kathua, Unnao: Shame on us

Our conduct as a society in the rape and murder case of an eight-year-old in Kathua has been so despicable that it can be said, without exaggeration, that India’s moral compass has…
April 14, 2018

Asifa, Betrayed Over And Over

It is impossible to read these 15-pages without a visceral reaction. They provide, in stomach-turning detail, how an eight-year-old girl from a nomadic Muslim tribe was kidnapped, kept hostage at a temple…
April 14, 2018
New Delhi: Supreme Court judge Justice Jasti Chelameswar during a book launch 'Appointment of Judges to the Supreme Court of India' edited by Arghya Sengupta and Ritwika Sharma in New Delhi, on Monday. PTI Photo by Ravi Choudhary(PTI4_9_2018_000213B)

Justice Chelameswar Deserves Thanks

The highest judicial body of the country, namely the Supreme Court of India, is in deep crisis. Never before in our history have dissensions within the court come out so openly in…
April 14, 2018
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