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By Fali S Nariman Has the campaign against corruption succeeded? I am not at all sure it has. Let me tell you why. When talking of corruption, we always make a common

By Pulapre Balakrishnan As the general election approaches, we are reminded of the observation by the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein that while raisins may well be the better part of a cake, “a

By Tavoos Hassan Bhat It is said that the most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history, culture, and language. It’s a known

By Harsh Mander “We are broken-hearted, but we are not broken,” declared Imam Gamal Fouda, while leading prayers in Christchurch in New Zealand one week after the terror attack. “We are alive,

By Rasmus Kleis Nielsen Are Google and Facebook the most powerful editors in India? Given that an estimated quarter billion Indians have gone online since the last general election, they just might

By Shariq J Reyaz The unfortunate legal and constitutional history of Jammu & Kashmir has been fraught with various acts – both direct and indirect, innocuous and dangerous, benign and malignant –

By Bharat Bhushan If Prime Minister NarendraModi is really winning, then why does he look like a loser? The inverted snobbery of claiming that he was nothing but a humble a watchman

By Imtiaz Alam Bilawal Bhutto, otherwise seen as hawkish on India, seems to have attracted the accusation of subscribing to the ‘Indian narrative’ because of his demand to the government to go

By Salil Shetty For nearly a whole month now, the government of India has been very concerned about the human rights situation in Pakistan. Pakistan’s record on human rights is deeply worrying

By Rasmus Kleis Nielsen With the LokSabha elections coming up, it is critically important that Indians have access to credible and trustworthy information before they vote. The problem is that many do