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Damocles sword hangs over the citizenry

09 Dec 2019

Undeterred by the suffering caused by the process of updating the National Register of Citizens (NRC) undertaken in Assam, the Narendra Modi administration is pressing ahead with plans to repeat...

Lessons of BJP’s failed Maharashtra coup

02 Dec 2019

BRP Bhaskar, Political Commentator It began as a classic case of the proverbial slip between the cup and the lip. It ended a week later with the one who snatched...

Educational institutions still held to ransom

25 Nov 2019

Wanton attacks on prestigious public educational institutions, which began soon after the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government came to power five years ago, are continuing. However, there appears to be a...

A controversial judicial legacy

18 Nov 2019

How will Ranjan Gogoi, the Chief Justice of India, who has just retired after delivering judgment in a series of high-profile cases, be remembered? While declining requests from reporters...

Disturbing revelations about snooping on citizens

13 Nov 2019

A UK research team recently reported that India is the democracy with the largest surveillance system. Close on the heels of this finding, reports have surfaced about snooping on citizens...

Tacit acceptance of court’s Ayodhya compromise formula

11 Nov 2019

Initial reactions indicate a general willingness on the part of political and religious interests to accept the Supreme Court’s unanimous verdict on the Ayodhya dispute, which is essentially a compromise...

Privatising state undertakings to raise funds

28 Oct 2019

As Prime Ministers Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi sought to put the state in the commanding heights of the economy, about 250 Central public sector undertakings (PSUs) came up in...

Preparations on for a farcical poll in Kashmir

21 Oct 2019

This week Jammu and Kashmir marks the 72nd anniversary of its accession to India. It was on October 26, 1947 that Maharaja Hari Singh signed the Instrument of Accession, abandoning...

Civil society succeeds in blocking a spurious case

14 Oct 2019

While drawing up the Indian Penal Code in the 19th century, the British incorporated in it a section to deal with sedition, on the lines of a provision in the...

The blessing and curse of real estate boom

07 Oct 2019

The impending demolition of four high-rise buildings with a few hundred posh apartments in the Kerala city of Kochi has brought to the fore the issue of unregulated urban growth...

BRP Bhaskar

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

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