October 6, 2023

'The Hindu''s subscription model has been a lighthouse example of business acumen for news publishers. Ramanathan S & Jayant Sriram speak with LV Navaneeth, CEO of The Hindu Group…

"Subjecting journalists to a concentrated criminal process because the government disapproves of their coverage of national and international affairs is an attempt to chill the press by threat…

Simultaneous elections to the Lok Sabha and state assemblies will violate the principle of collective responsibility and will crush the federal ethos on which Indian parliamentary democracy is based.

Despite warts, the centrality of Parliament to the working of Indian democracy has not altered. Its symbolic resources continue to play an important role in legitimising regimes.

A decade after the law to end manual scavenging, thousands of workers continue to clean waste with little protection. The narrow framing of the law contributes to this state of affairs.

Whatever the government may claim, the achievements of the G20 summit in New Delhi did not quite live up to the glitter, despite the year-long rhetoric and drama indulged in by India while preparing…

While the connection between GDP and job growth in India has been poor, there has been a rapid increase of women in the modern services; while there has been greater job mobility, this has been very…

The National Rural Health Mission has provided disadvantaged women with better access to maternal healthcare, but obstetric practices can sometimes be egregious, adverse, and even violent. Gender and…

A new study of Patrick Geddes’ work in in India underlines the urban planner’s continued relevance to contemporary issues. But we have to ask ourselves why Geddes’s ideas have failed to gain traction…

‘There is law that applies to certain criminal activities, which are usually connected to older, corporal forms of power and profit, but there is a clear lack of law, or its applicability, to newer…