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Costly capital facelift amid COVID crisis

17 May 2021

Prime Minister Naredra Modi loves to do things on a grand scale. In 2010, as Chief Minister of Gujarat, he made a plan to build in the state a 182-metre-high...

Reservations: Fresh blow to affirmative action

10 May 2021

The Supreme Court’s verdict in the Maratha reservation case is in keeping with its restrictive approach towards affirmative action. In the judgment delivered last week, the court struck...

BJP meets with rebuff in three key states

03 May 2021

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s determined bid to extend his Bharatiya Janata Party’s footprints to West Bengal in the east and Tamil Nadu and Kerala in the south has failed miserably....

COVID flare-up exposes governance failures

26 Apr 2021

“This is not a wave, this is a tsunami,” exclaimed a Delhi High Court judge. “We are sitting on a volcano which may erupt any time,” said Pinarayi Vijayan,...

Not too short to make a noteworthy start

19 Apr 2021

The Supreme Court of India, which is going through a bad patch in its history, gets a new helmsman in Justice NV Ramana this week. In a bid to...

Human rights standards on the wane in India

12 Apr 2021

Every passing year brings fresh evidence of decline in India’s human rights standards. In the Human Freedom Index of 2020 India was at the 111th place among 162 countries. In...

Indian opposition needs broad-based platform

05 Apr 2021

In a letter to top leasers of 10 national and regional parties, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee last week made a fervent plea to join hands to save India’s...

New virus wave threatens economic recovery

29 Mar 2021

India is leaving behind the worst financial year in the years of Independence. Since the colonial period, the financial year has run from April 1 to March 31 of the...

Modi must step in to end farm laws face-off

22 Mar 2021

The marathon protest by farmers at the Delhi border enters the fifth month this week. An estimated 300,000 farmers, mostly from neighbouring states, had reached the outskirts of the...

Judiciary to revisit curbs on affirmative action

15 Mar 2021

Affirmative action, known in local parlance as reservation, is one of the most sensitive issues of modern India. Its roots lie in the caste system, which apologists present as a...

BRP Bhaskar

Indian journalist with over 50 years of newspaper, news agency and television experience.

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