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Why Modi & Shah are leading BJP outreach to dispel fear of ending reservations

Meerut candidate Arun Govil lends ammunition to opposition for his comments on 'changes' to Constitution. In doing so, he joins the likes of Lallu Singh, Anantkumar Hegde & Jyoti Mirdha.

Abhishek Singhvi wants to ‘abolish’ speakers’ power to judge defection. ‘They’re not neutral’

Congress leader and former Rajya Sabha MP Abhishek Manu Singhvi is a 'victim of defection'. But he wants to scrap the anti-defection law.

Quota for women, minorities & civil code — where India’s ‘founding mothers’ stood on key issues

Supreme Court in a judgment earlier this month used term ‘founding parents’ to refer to makers of Constitution. Of 389 members of Constituent Assembly, 15 were women.

Building ‘constitutional culture’ — collective distributes prints of preamble at Delhi exhibition

At the exhibition, 75 artists from the country showcased artwork inspired by the illustrations in the Constitution.  

Supreme Court has redeemed itself. SBI should return to banking and forget politics

ThePrint view on the most important issues.

Indian-origin UK professor claims she was denied entry into India despite invite by Karnataka govt

In her X post, Nitasha Kaul, invited to speak at a conference on Constitution of India, says she was denied entry at Bengaluru airport on ‘orders from Delhi’.

‘A great giant of law and an intellectual’, senior advocate Fali S Nariman dies at 95

Nariman, in his legal career spanning over 7 decades, was a part of cases that shaped constitutional law in independent India. PM Narendra Modi, CJI DY Chandrachud mourned his death.

‘You can be a respectable Hindu and still an atheist,’ says author Gurcharan Das

Das talks about why he believes Indians never fully embraced the idea of constitutional morality and whether there is space for atheism under the umbrella of Hinduism.

A professor is fighting DU casteism. She runs a street classroom clutching the Constitution

Ad hoc professor Ritu Singh joined the Daulat Ram College in 2019 but was removed within a year. Now she is fighting the principal, with Bhim Army by her side.

‘Due space’ to Ram-Sita in Constitution, says PM. It has Tipu, Akbar, Buddha and other icons too

Referring to illustrations of the deities in the original copy of the Constitution, PM Modi has twice in a week said Ram Rajya acted as inspiration for its makers.

On Camera

Imtiaz Ali obsesses over vulgarity, misses Chamkila’s cultural resistance against purity

Peter Manuel's ‘Cassette Culture’ showed the booming Bhakti music during the '80s and '90s when Anoop Jalota, Gulshan Kumar achieved success by singing the sanitised Bhajans.

Economists vs statisticians — the battle being fought over the soul of India’s GDP data

Economists say there are weaknesses in India’s GDP data. But statisticians claim the accusations are based on flawed understanding, saying while GDP has problems, the economists are looking in the wrong places.

India and Japan hold 10th round of consultations on disarmament, non-proliferation, and export control

The two sides also discussed ways to strengthen cooperation in outer space security, conventional weapons, and export control

These 6 states are key for Modi’s ‘400 paar’ target. They’re also where Opposition can stop him

While this contest looks so predictable in large swathes of our political landscape, it is also more keenly contested than 2019 in some states.