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Following from people's sovereignty
21 Feb 2017 9:15 PM ISTThe Supreme Court of India has declared that it will not be mandatory for people to stand to the Indian Union's national anthem if the song is part of...
Trolling their way in
17 Feb 2017 9:16 PM ISTDilip Ghosh, the President of BJP's West Bengal branch, recently lashed out against Professor Amartya Sen, one of Bengal's two living Nobel laureates...
Mischief against states continues
2 Feb 2017 9:59 PM ISTThe 2017 Union budget presented by Indian Union government's Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has many aspects. His speech touched upon some of them. All...
What Manipur is telling India
27 Jan 2017 9:53 PM ISTManipur University, a Central university in Imphal, is in huge turmoil. Late in 2016, it was shutdown for few days given the protests, mass exodus...
Loosening the shackles of the Union
22 Jan 2017 9:33 PM ISTAll over Tamil Nadu, tens of thousands of people, largely not under any political party banner, have assembled in protest. The most widely broadcasted...
Nasbandi, Notebandi, aur Nationalism
17 Jan 2017 3:01 AM ISTLast month, India’s Union Minister of State for Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises and senior BJP leader Giriraj Singh chose to pontificate on the need...
Coercing into cooperative federalism
27 Dec 2016 3:20 AM ISTOn November 30, high-level members of the NITI Ayog descended upon Kolkata. The mandarins of the NITI Ayog came down to impress upon the need for...
GST impasse, disempowering states
18 Dec 2016 3:24 AM ISTGoing by recent developments, it appears that the GST roll out date slated for April 2017 will probably not be met. September 2017 seems to be the new...
Betraying anti-colonial ideals
9 Dec 2016 2:17 AM ISTReserve Bank of India’s new 500 and 2000 Rupee notes confirm what many feared – that this design overhaul will be used to push certain iconographies...
Calling out the fraud
27 Nov 2016 1:59 AM ISTThe important GST council meeting scheduled for November 25 to negotiate various points of difference between the states and the Union has been...
Exclusionary nature of the ruling party
20 Nov 2016 4:10 AM ISTCitizenship rules are one of the fundamental aspects of any state – the nature of rules reflect who is it for and who is it not for, who it considers...
Mistry ouster: Nano and Bengal
4 Nov 2016 2:50 AM ISTCyrus Mistry's email is out of the opaque bag called the Tata Group. After his unceremonious ouster from the chairmanship of the Tata Group, he has...