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India’s wild elephant
The Congress says the EC’s silence is akin to “tacit endorsement”.
A.G. Noorani
Jallianwala & Jinnah
The 1919 massacre marked a turning point in the campaign for independence.
Modi & lynchings
Perpetrators of the crime were lionised; their victims ignored.
Custodial deaths
The police’s bald statement on Rizwan’s death raises serious questions.
The state’s libels
Elections bring out the worst in India’s swadeshi McCarthy and his cohorts.
Kashmir matters
No conflict rooted in the people’s sentiments can be crushed by force.
Dissent in crisis
It is precisely during a crisis that the truth should be told.
Government ads
Punishing dissenting newspapers by withholding ads is an abuse of power.
State papers
No government has a right to air old official records for partisan ends.
Evil of transfers
Politicisation of the services and transfers feed on each other.
Withdrawing cases
How many or how few can resist the command of the politician in power?
MPs’ conscience
Anti-defection laws have turned legislators into bonded labour.
The people’s Jinnah
Within a month, 65,000 citizens had donated a rupee each to the fund.
Students’ magazines
University students have the right to publish a magazine without permission.
Kashmir, a prison
Even this small opening to ‘the other side’ was unacceptable.
Jammu’s crisis
The RSS has ever been an advocate of J&K trifurcation.
Religious tourism
It is in both countries’ interest to actively promote such bilateral ties.
The Kosygin Plan
Recent ventures in road-building require a mature approach.
Kashmir’s fate
Satya Pal Malik is, to use the term unflatteringly, a born politician.
Mosque politics
In the Babri Masjid case, India’s supreme court split along religious lines.