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Sunday, August 17, 2025
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Topic: Democracy

‘Queen’s order to people’s will’: SC judge BR Gavai on ‘transformative intent’ of Indian Constitution

Delivering a lecture at New York's Columbia University, where he also paid homage to a bust of Dr BR Ambedkar, Justice Gavai underscored SC's role as 'custodian of the Constitution'.

First-past-the-post in a palanquin system & the evasive art of unlearning

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

3 survey results that tell us what Indians think about democracy — and it’s not a simple story

The search for a permanent and coherent popular meaning of democracy is futile. The Pew report underlines this ever-evolving tendency of popular democracy in the Indian context.

3rd Summit for Democracy: Governments unite against misuse of commercial spyware

The joint statement acknowledges the threat posed by the misuse of commercial spyware and the necessity of strict domestic and international regulations on its proliferation and use.

‘Bread, work, liberty’—when Chilean women sewed quilts with messages to oppose Gen Pinochet

In 'Audacious Hope', Indrajit Roy talks about how hope is expressed through ordinary people’s resistance in the face of brutal, unrelenting repression.

National Youth Parliament Festival: 87 state winners to debate in Central Hall on 5-6 March

Students from 785 districts across the country will participate in the festival, bringing together 29 state-level winners and 58 participants from each district.

Dhruv Rathee’s question is wrong. Instead, ask what kind of non-democracy India is becoming

Dhruv Rathee’s viral video asks if India is becoming a dictatorship. The problem is that it is an over-stylised description that lets the present govt off the hook.

India to host conference of representatives from supreme audit institutions of 10 countries

The purpose of the conference is to strengthen the audit of local governments and to promote transparency and accountability in schemes and projects by local bodies.

Why I quit journalism and joined politics—media is muzzled, opposition isn’t

Independence is about speaking truth to power every day, all day. Independence is not calling oneself a journalist and then being an outrider and trumpeter of the government.

‘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.

On Camera

Postcards from Hyderabad—stories Europeans told about the city

For all their colonial underpinnings, postcards from Hyderabad also inadvertently preserve a trace of local memory: a glimpse of a street, a face, a forgotten name.

Navigating Trump’s tariffs is no child’s play. Indian toymakers are losing out on orders, enquiries

Indian toymakers are now exploring new markets, but they want govt to negotiate a trade deal with US soon, introduce incentives and subsidies to make the industry more competitive.

What is Project Sudarshan Chakra, announced by Modi from ramparts of Red Fort

The project is meant to be a ‘protective shield that will keep expanding’, the PM said. It is on the lines of the ‘Golden Dome’ announced by Trump, it is learnt.

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?