The credibility of India’s top institutions has lately been suffering, negatively affecting the governance, and progress of democracy. A strong indication of this changing climate came in the form of the impeachment motion against the chief justice (CJ) of India, which was later rejected by the country’s vice president, and was subsequently challenged in the […]
Intellectualism in today’s India
Intellectuals and activists represent the conscience of any society. Yet in today’s India they find themselves plunged into crisis. This, however, is not one of their own making as last month’s killing of Guari Laneksh only serves to highlight. She is the fourth intellectual activist to be murderously silenced in recent years. Earlier, Narendra Dabholkar, […]
Freedom from AFSPA in Jammu and Kashmir and Manipur
As India celebrates its anniversary of independence from the British rule it is worthwhile to ask when the people of Jammu and Kashmir and Manipur will get freedom from the Armed Forces (Special Power) Act 1958 (AFSPA), which is no less than being living under the colonial rule. The law that the British conceived in […]
Domestic violence, a global issue
One social parallel that can be drawn between two dissimilar countries like India and Australia is rampant family violence in both the countries. As Australia is fighting the menace vigorously, India can learn a few lessons from it, giving some relief to its about 500 million strong female population, majority of which go through the […]