One Nation, One Election: What will its Implementation Mean?

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.▶04-Oct-2023
Manjari Katju

October 6, 2023

'One Nation, One Election', Why has the rule of law become so fragile?, On the State of Working India 2023

The Business of News EP 4: The digital transformation of 'The Hindu'

'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…
▶05-Oct-2023
The India Forum

Journalism Cannot Be Prosecuted As 'Terrorism'.

"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…
▶04-Oct-2023
Digipub and other press groups
Explainer

One Nation, One Election: What will its Implementation Mean?

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.
▶04-Oct-2023
Manjari Katju
Book
Book Review

A Declining Institution? Parliament Today

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.
▶04-Oct-2023
K K Kailash

The Workers Left out of the Law to End Manual Scavenging

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.
▶28-Sep-2023
Ahana Ganguly

The G20: Political Stunts, Platitudes, and No Teeth

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…
▶27-Sep-2023
D. Ravi Kanth

Growth, Structural Change, and Opportunities: Who has Benefited?

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…
▶20-Sep-2023
Amit Basole, Akshit Arora, M. K. Shravan

Towards Safe and Respectful Maternity Care

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…
▶19-Sep-2023
Aditi Iyer
Book
Book Review

The Need to Reinvent and Adapt the Work of Patrick Geddes

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…
▶18-Sep-2023
A. G. Krishna Menon
Essay

Why has the Rule of Law become so Fragile?

‘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…
▶13-Sep-2023
Tabish Khair