We live in an age when the whole country looks to the judiciary to keep the legislative and the executive branches in check. Should we allow political parties to win judges over to their side?
SRK’s Jawan teaches us to read the truth of fantasies. Use that knowledge to understand why the current crisis may be described as 'democracy capture'.
Event to be inaugurated by ex president Ram Nath Kovind will include panel discussion headed by Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma. Aim is to 'highlight aspects of India's democratic tradition'.
For its July 2023 edition, the 'Journal of Democracy' invited leading political science scholars to look at different aspects of Indian democracy under Modi govt.
Popular discourse on Nehru’s premiership varies from hagiographic to critical, and has been reduced to slogans. India’s post-independent history is far more nuanced.
US-based non-profit’s Freedom of the World 2023 report gave India a score of 66, same as last year. Report warns that once a country becomes 'partly free', it’s difficult to recover.
Ministries, agencies, police, governors, election commission, judiciary, media— all stand compromised. The only alternative left is to walk with the people and talk to them.
Brown University professor writes that Modi's India is still an electoral democracy. But the longer Hindu nationalists remain in power, the weaker it'll become as a liberal democracy.
When politicians have no respect for personal liberty and order arrests indiscriminately, it is silly to expect policemen and bureaucrats to not follow their example.
Indian sampradayas have to institutionalise their knowledge and boil it down to essentials for transmission and proselytisation if they are to compete with the major Abrahamic sects.
On 4 November 2025, NCLAT bench, comprising Chairperson Justice Ashok Bhushan and Member Arun Baroka, noted that WhatsApp and Meta are distinct legal entities.
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.
This scum, aka Injustice Ganguly, was a known judicial trojan horse, whose agenda was clear to a lot of people, because of his improper conduct from day 1 in dispensing his own duties, and his inherent bias. What this fails to mention, is that this b@st*** also excused and justified his BJP ilk, and kin, Suvendu Adhikari, the known goon, who was caught taking money in front of camera in the Narada scam. Of course birds of a feather flock together
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This scum, aka Injustice Ganguly, was a known judicial trojan horse, whose agenda was clear to a lot of people, because of his improper conduct from day 1 in dispensing his own duties, and his inherent bias. What this fails to mention, is that this b@st*** also excused and justified his BJP ilk, and kin, Suvendu Adhikari, the known goon, who was caught taking money in front of camera in the Narada scam. Of course birds of a feather flock together
Did justice Thipsay join congress? Did justice Hegde join a political party? How come you are so ignorant??
As it is, difficult now to think of judgments like cancellation of coal blocks or telecom licences being delivered. Nothing profoundly consequential.