The Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Rules, 2017
These rules are sought to be lampooned on two main grounds. First, that they are the product of a government with a divisive agenda that is trying to push the…
Should we grow GM crops?
To hide her nakedness, India has borrowed a ‘fig leaf’ from U.S. regulation of genetically modified orgamisms (GMOs), i.e. in the non-regulation of these novel laboratory organisms. The U.S. invented…
India-China Border Issues
The boundary stand-off with China at the Doka La tri-junction with Bhutan is by all accounts unprecedented; it demands calmer counsel on all sides. The tri-junction stretch of the boundary…
Climate-proofed and inclusive
Projects to help people adapt to climate change should not inadvertently worsen living conditions of the poor. How will future climate change affect the poor and how does one address…
Written-off in the hinterland
The Editorial mainly focuses on impact of education on rural life Our education system has failed to integrate the rural into the larger political community, the nation. The impact of education…
Being smart about Smart Cities Mission
The Centre would like us to believe that the Smart Cities Mission will transform urban life in the agglomerations that enter the elite club. With the latest inclusions, there are 90 cities in…
IS enters Philippines
Manila will have to use military force and offer talks to stop IS advances in the Philippines The city of Marawi in the south of the Philippines has been engulfed by a deadly,…
Article 19 in The Constitution Of India 1949
All citizens shall have the right to freedom of speech and expression; to assemble peaceably and without arms; to form associations or unions; to move freely throughout the territory of…
Inclusion in the Backward Classes list
A widely welcomed move to grant constitutional status to the National Commission for Backward Classes (NCBC) has also brought with it a whiff of controversy over whether it amounts to…
Where are the commons?
The tension between ownership to tangible and intangible property and the enjoyment of the commons by all is not a new phenomenon. Fences could not have been there when land…