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One Nation, Many Laws: 75 Years of India’s Uniform Civil Code
For seventy-five years, a single sentence in the Indian Constitution has sat quietly in a corner, waiting. In the last two years, four states have finally acted on it. Here is the full story of the Uniform Civil Code...
Cover Story
Budget 2025: Joblessness and Unemploymen...
India’s finance minister Ms. Nirmala Sitharaman presented her 8th budget since 2020, and this time around announced major tax breaks — making people earning up to Rs 12 lakh...
Tablighi Jamaat : 1000 years of revenge...
Two contradictions are evident. Through April and May this year, the government vilified Tablighi Jamat, a social organization that claims to be apolitical but has deep religious roots....
WINDS OF CHANGE...
ADVERTISING : The name itself conjures up exciting images. Passion. Glamour. Celebrities. ...
THE ECONOMIC ROULETTE WHEEL...
THE wheel spins, swings, and sweeps in a frenzied manner. The economic ball jumps, bobs, a...
SYSTEMS FAILURE, SITUATION CRITICAL...
ONE of most quoted allegories of incompetence for a person holding high office is that Ner...
COSMIC DANCE, WORLDLY TRANCE...
Faith, Lies & Tall Tales The COVID-19 disease is caused by the SARS-CoV2 virus. It spr...
SELLING FAMILY SILVER...
Faced with an existential challenge of continuing to shoulder the humungous exercise of op...
Kejriwal: A political revolutionary or Machiavelli...
THE incandescent halo of Anna Hazare has dimmed like the smouldering ashes of a fire that ...
Governance
Governance from the Inside: What It Takes to Make …
A rare insider’s account of governance, revealing the gap between policy design and ground-level exe...
The Slap, the Road and Delhi’s ₹12,613-Crore Quest…
9,784 km of roads. A ₹12,613-crore Transport, Roads & Bridges budget. A trail of audit objection...
The Backdoor at the Border: India’s Battle for Dig…
Neutralizing Foreign Telecom Vulnerabilities & Securing Physical AI The Imperative for Sovereign...
State Scan
In a bold move that could reshape Haryana Congress, Rahul Gandhi is se...
There is a dark horse in the Tamil Nadu elections, the results of whic...
Vivek Joshi, a 1989 batch #IAS officer of #Haryana cadre in all probab...
Global Scan
Will Donald Trump’s team be able to Make America Great Again?
President Elect Donald trump wants to make a “Jump Start” with his transition team to get onto to his agenda and fulfil his electoral pledges to be synced with his voter’s support base. US President Elect Donald Trump wants to…
By TN ASHOKPolitics
Restructure, Rebrand, Repeat: The Politi…
In a previous piece for this publication, I examined why compliance dashboards fail enterprise board...
Can Citizens See How Government Decides?
From ration shops to AI procurement: making Indian public decisions understandable, challengeable an...
The Great Indian Redraw: Why Delimitatio…
Stretching Delimitation to its Limits The controversy over seat redistribution, and India̵...By Amir Khan
Congress backs a Dalit wildcard in Harya…
The Congress has pulled a rabbit out of the hat at the last minute by giving Karamvir Boudh, a Dalit...By Renu Mittal
Nehru-also-wanted-strong-opposition-but-…
Narendra Modi declared that he hopes for a strong opposition, which would strengthen democracy. So d...
15 August 1975 : “We do not belong to th…
Very early on the morning of 15 August 1975, as he was getting ready for the Independence Day celebr...Bric A Brac
Kingmaker needs flesh...
It is quite intriguing to observe how politicians become Cabinet Ministers and C...
Dharavi Goldmine...
Dharavi. The moment one hears the name, a picture of ghastly slums and the den o...
CPM : Let Mamta be defeated first !...
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is in a fix as only 10 months are lef...
Finally, BJP needs media...
NDA 3 or Modi 2.0 has completed one year but the BJP leadership feels it has not...
North and South faceoff...
THERE is a kind of a lull in the non-stop chess game that’s played by different ...
Hooda, Tulsi in Rajya Sabha...
HOW did Deepender Singh Hooda, 42 and senior advocate KTS Tulsi, 72, newly elect...
By The Way
PMO overhaul
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has reshuffled his office during the Covid-19 crisis. His Private Secretary Rajeev Topno, the 1996-batch IAS officer of the Gujarat cadre, has been appointed as senior advisor to World Bank Executive Director S. Aparna, a 1988-batch…
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