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As the Karnataka drama continues and there are as yet no visible signs of it coming to an immediate end since the State Assembly Speaker has not indicated that even after 10 MLAs of the ruling coalition having met him today and (...)
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Overall Scenario turns from Bad to Worse
13 July 2019, by SC -
Union Budget 2019-20: Belying Expectations of Boosting Growth
13 July 2019, by Arun KumarThe government was expected to present a big-bang Budget since it has a massive majority in Parliament. It was hoped that the Budget would help take the economy out of its current troubles. Soon after returning to power the government and the PM (...) -
Union Budget 2019-20: The Numbers Do Not Add Up
13 July 2019by A. Sunil Dharan
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has presented her maiden Budget under conditions that are extremely trying for the economy. Economic growth has slumped from 8.2 per cent in 2016-17 to 6.8 per cent in 2108-19. It was 5.8 (...) -
Do We Need a Bill Criminalising Instant Triple Talaaq?
13 July 2019by Ram Puniyani
A debate is raging about a Bill on triple talaaq introduced by the Modi 2.0 government in Parliament in June 2019. Probably this first major effort by this government is based on the argument of giving gender justice to ‘Muslim (...) -
Khushwant Singh’s Foresight on Hindutva Fascism
13 July 2019, by Humra QuraishiMUSINGS
There was something or everything so very extraordinarily different to Khushwant Singh that even after five years of his passing away he holds sway. At the recently concluded Khushwant Singh Literary Festival at King’s College, London, (...) -
Spectre of New India
13 July 2019by Zulafqar Ahmed
India has been an epitome of pluralism, tolerance, and diversity since the ages. The religious, cultural, and ethnic diversity of India has left inerasable imprints all over the world. Varieties of social groups and ideological (...) -
Assam NRC — a Humanitarian Crisis Looming Large - CSSS Fact-Finding Team’s Report
13 July 2019DOCUMENT
“Citizenship is man’s basic right for it is nothing less than the right to have rights. Remove this priceless possession and there remains a stateless person, disgraced and degraded in the eyes of his countrymen,” once said Earl Warren, a (...) -
Lynching in Post-Election West Bengal
13 July 2019, by Arup Kumar SenBarely a month after the publication of results of the parliamentary elections, a draconian act of lynching took place in the Maldah district of West Bengal. A Muslim youth, who was beaten up by “few of his acquaintances” on June 26, 2019, died of (...) -
Return of Hindutva: A Challenge for Secularism
13 July 2019, by Gargi ChakravarttyBOOK REVIEW
Hindutva’s Second Coming by Subhas Gatade; published by Media House, Delhi; 2019; pages: 272; Rs 395 (US $ 18).
The return of Modi to power with a huge margin in this 2019 election is a clear verdict for the Hindutva plank. Why and (...) -
Return of }Hindutva: A Challenge for Secularism
13 July 2019, by Gargi ChakravarttyBOOK REVIEW
Hindutva’s Second Coming by Subhas Gatade; published by Media House, Delhi; 2019; pages: 272; Rs 395 (US $ 18).
The return of Modi to power with a huge margin in this 2019 election is a clear verdict for the Hindutva plank. Why and (...)
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