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• Right to Privacy

  9 October, by S G Vombatkere
  The word “private” has the meanings: (1) belonging to a particular person (his/her own body or his/her own property), (2) not sharing thoughts or feelings with others, and (3) not connected with a person’s work or official role. From this  (...)

• Privacy vs Security: Need to Strike a Thin Balance

  9 October
  by P. Arun
  In August 2017, the Supreme Court delivered a momentous judgement on privacy. In Justice K.S. Puttaswamy (Retd.) vs Union of India, the nine-judge Constitutional Bench utilised its interpretative jurisdiction and unanimously declared  (...)

• BJP’s Dangerous Politics

  9 October, by Nikhil Chakravartty
  From N.C.’s Writings
  One of my earliest reporting experiences was the great Calcutta killing of 1946. Fierce communal passions were unleashed and thousands were done to death on both sides in the course of a couple of days. But behind that gory  (...)

• Gandhi’s Dharma had Very Sincere Respect for All Religions and Absolutely No Room for Communalism

  9 October, by Bharat Dogra
  The following article was written for the Gandhi Jayanti (October 2) but reached us late. So we are using it now.
  At a time when some powerful elements are trying to co-opt some of the ideas of Mahatma Gandhi without giving up their ideology of  (...)

• Why are we Silent on the Grave Threat to Prof Kancha Illaiah Shepherd?

  9 October, by Vidya Bhushan Rawat
  While it is nobody’s suggestion that India was a tolerant land some three years back and has suddenly developed intolerance, none can deny the fact that the goons threatening intellectuals and activists have certainly become more arrogant and  (...)

• BSP in Uttar Pradesh: Analysing Its Failure

  9 October
  by Nirmal Singh
  The 2017 UP Assembly election results upset the perceptions that dominated the election scene throughout its prolonged process. How-ever, this was in contrast to the doubts over the results expressed rather angrily by the BSP’s  (...)

• Singular Fixation on ‘Democratic’ Elections - It’s Inherently Undemocratic

  9 October
  by M.A. Sofi
  Let me begin by putting into perspective the apparent paradox that one may read into the above lines involving the title/subtitle of this essay. In the absence of evidence on the ground of the achievements and accomplishments as  (...)

• Haryana: The Gurmeet Ram Rahim Phenomenon

  9 October
  by Ranbir Singh
  Haryana is once again in the news for the wrong reasons. The challenge to the authority of the State and judiciary by the self-styled Sant Gurmeet Ram Rahim Insa of Dera Sucha Sauda, Sirsa (Haryana) has created an explosive  (...)

• Beyond Social Norms?

  9 October
  by Mahendra Ved
  Description: Gurmeet Ram Rahim.
  He is not Gurmeet, a supposedly Sikh, nor Ram, a Hindu, nor Rahim, a Muslim. He has blemished the three faiths to masquerade his misdeeds. But how do ‘godmen’ like him get away with what they do  (...)

• What is the RSS Agenda in Education?

  9 October
  by Ram Puniyani
  In its recommendation to the NCERT, the Shiksha Sanskriti Uthan Nyas, an RSS affiliate, asks for removal of English, Urdu and Arabic words, the thoughts of Rabindranath Tagore; extracts from painter M.F. Husain’s autobio-graphy;  (...)

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