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Supreme Court must deal with prime issues

24 Feb 2020

India’s Supreme Court is engaged in an unusual experiment of trying to avert a confrontation between state power and people’s power at Shaheen Bagh in Delhi which has attracted worldwide...

Modi letting go chance for course correction

17 Feb 2020

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in a speech in his constituency of Varanasi on Sunday, acknowledged that there is pressure on his government over some recent decisions but it will not...

Unending protests put Modi in a bind

10 Feb 2020

It is now acknowledged by all except Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party that India’s current economic downslide was the result of two decisions he took in...

Signs of decline in strength of judiciary

27 Jan 2020

The Indian judiciary is one of the most powerful in the world, Chief Justice of India (CJI) Altamas Kabir said in 2013. He attributed its strength to the power of...

India’s severest test as secular democracy

20 Jan 2020

On January 26, 1950, the Constitution translated into reality the solemn resolve of India’s people to establish a sovereign, democratic republic. Twenty-six years later the Preamble of the Constitution...

Dispensing justice to Kashmir in driblets

13 Jan 2020

When a spate of petitions challenging the validity of various steps taken in Jammu and Kashmir after the Centre altered its constitutional status came up before the Supreme Court, it...

CAA row impacts national polity, foreign ties

06 Jan 2020

Shock waves set in motion by the Bharatiya Janata Pary-led government’s Citizenship Act amendment (CAA) are damaging not only India’s polity but also its external relations. Prime Minister Narendra...

More than protesters, PM needs to introspect

30 Dec 2019

As protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the National Register of Citizens (NRC) continued across India with no sign of abatement, last week Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on...

Young protesters break Modi-Shah spell

23 Dec 2019

As waves of protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the National Register of Citizens (NRC) swept large parts of India last week, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his...

Battle for democracy and secularism is on

16 Dec 2019

For the first time since Prime Minister Narendra Modi stormed into office in 2014 and began transforming India into a Hindu nation, a mass upsurge against the move is spreading...

BRP Bhaskar

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

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