By: Sreejith Sugunan As part of the Cultural Cognition Project, which aims to study how individuals with preconceived group identities perceive their risk in society, law professor and psychologist Dan...

By: Reetika Khera The first death anniversary of Santoshi Kumar, a Dalit girl from Simdega, Jharkhand, was this week. She died of hunger, at the age of 11, a few...

By: Vagda Galhotra It is the season of decriminalisation. First the Delhi high court decriminalised beggary in Harsh Mander v. Union of India by declaring unconstitutional some 25 provisions of...

By: RAYEES MASROOR In a landmark verdict, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutional validity of Aadhaar and made it clear in its judgment that no private company, no banks, schools,...

By: Ashraf Jehangir Qazi INDIA cancelled talks with Pakistan blaming it for ‘acts of terror’, along with a vicious attack on the newly elected prime minister. Pakistanis and Indians back...

By: Samantak Das In the cornucopia of riches that the magic of the internet has brought to our fingertips, few things are as delight-giving as comparing YouTube videos of the...

By: Suhasini Haidar After a sudden and brief moment of clear signal, the ‘India-Pakistan channel’ has gone back to static, with the cancellation of talks between the two Foreign Ministers...

By: ARVIND P. DATAR By a majority of 4:1, the Supreme Court (SC) has upheld the validity of the architecture of the Aadhaar ecosystem. At the same time, the majority...

By: Imtiaz Alam What has so abruptly reversed the Modi government’s consent to a meeting sans the resumption of the dialogue process between the Indian and Pakistani foreign ministers on...

By: Subir Bhaumik With the Bangladesh Parliament elections around three months away and much at stake for India, there seems to be a concerted effort by the Islamist Opposition in...