Left behind: on the right to free, compulsory education
Context: Findings of the Annual Status of Education Report (Rural) 2017: The state of rural elementary education is far from encouraging. To begin with, only 5% of the respondents in…
Not a criminal act
Context: There are striking similarities between the offence of ‘theft’ and ‘adultery’ under the Indian Penal Code. Encyclopedia of Diderot & d’Alembert, Vol. 1 (1751) also equated adultery with theft: “adultery…
The map of rural deprivation
Context: With the Union Budget to be presented on February 1, it is hoped that the Finance Minister will make a significantly higher allocation for investment in infrastructure. It is…
T.N. children severely malnourished: report
Context: Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) is high among children (under the age of five) at 8% in Tamil Nadu, according to National Family Health Survey-4 (NFHS) data released in 2017.…
Thinking beyond quotas
Context: The Gujjars in Rajasthan, the Jats in Haryana and the Patels in Gujarat have shown that politically powerful communities nurturing a sense of victimhood can mount a powerful challenge…
Agriculture needs a reforms package
Context: With rural economic anxieties acquiring a political voice, the expectation is that the Budget will focus on agriculture. For some time, the country has been in denial over the extent of…
Dark clouds across Asia
Context: More disorder, coming with increasing signs of a breakdown in inter and intra-state relations, is perhaps on the horizon. The Asian region is nowhere near achieving the kind of…
Enabling a law: rights of the disabled
Context: The Supreme Court has struck a blow for the rights of the disabled, with a direction to the Central and State governments to provide full access to public facilities, such as…
This too is a right: the right to sexual privacy
Context: Joseph Shine v. Union of India, the petition challenging the constitutional validity of the criminal prohibition on adultery under Section 497 of the Indian Penal Code, has now been referred…
Should MPs and MLAs be barred from practising law?
Context: The dual role played by MPs or MLAs when they double up as lawyers. Favour: Clear rules Rule 49 of the Bar Council of India states that any full-time…
- Go to the previous page
- 1
- …
- 13
- 14
- 15
- 16
- 17
- 18
- 19
- …
- 25
- Go to the next page