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Bid to extend footprint to east and south

08 Mar 2021

All of India is watching with keen interest the election campaigns in three states which go to the polls in the next two months. Reason: the outcome of these...

New regulations to rein in digital platforms

01 Mar 2021

A new code drawn up by the Indian government to regulate the working of social media and other digital platforms appears to be designed to meet immediate political needs rather...

Plea for democratic solution needs attention

22 Feb 2021

The Narendra Modi administration, stuck with legislative measures which it is unable to implement due to popular opposition, has embarked upon a course of action which is turning out to...

Finally, some good news from the border region

15 Feb 2021

Indian and Chinese armies last week began pulling their armoured units back from one of several points along the 3,500-kilometre-long Line of Actual Control where they have been involved in...

Urgent need for rebooting Indian democracy

08 Feb 2021

When Narendra Modi led the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance to power in 2014, India was ranked 27th in the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Democracy Index. In the 2020 index,...

When partisans become judges of citizens’ loyalty

01 Feb 2021

Violence accompanied Freedom as it came one midnight in 1947 but transfer of power from the British to local hands was a smooth affair. Leaders of the Congress and...

Majoritarian threat to constitutional values

25 Jan 2021

As India enters its 72nd year as a republic, there is widespread concern in the country over the health of its democratic system. Eager to rebuild society on modern...

An experiment in ‘restricted’ democracy

18 Jan 2021

The Narendra Modi administration is trying in Jammu and Kashmir a form of restricted democracy, quite distinct from what India’s Constitution provides for. The democratic process in J and...

Verdict on controversial laws still in limbo

11 Jan 2021

Three sensitive issues on which Prime Minister Narendra Modi pushed controversial laws through Parliament are caught in messy situations. The issues are farm sector reforms, citizenship norms and status...

Rationale behind law on inter-faith marriages

04 Jan 2021

The Bharatiya Janata Party government of Uttar Pradesh, India’s largest state, has enacted a law criminalising inter-faith marriages performed without state approval. The law, which ostensibly aims at...

BRP Bhaskar

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

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