Tag: current affairs – India

Heritage, freedom struggle, practical solutions: What NDMC’s Sunehri Masjid plan has overlooked

Fahad Zuberi The New Delhi Municipal Council’s plan to demolish Delhi’s Sunehri Bagh Masjid has triggered an uproar. While the Delhi High Court is hearing another petition challenging the status quo, a section of the media has already begun linking objections – especially those by political leaders such as AIMIM’s Asaduddin Owaisi – to an… Read More Heritage, freedom struggle, practical solutions: What NDMC’s Sunehri Masjid plan has overlooked

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No jobs and a bleak future: Has the political class failed India’s youth?

Bharat Bhushan The protestors in the Parliamentary attack of December 13, 2023 were clearly naive, and their method patently criminal. But even while policing failures are examined threadbare, their political message should not be lost. Ignoring caste and regional affiliations, they just wanted to send a message to the entire political class about youth unemployment. They appear… Read More No jobs and a bleak future: Has the political class failed India’s youth?

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An Ode to the ‘Ad-Hoc’ Teachers of Ramjas English Department

These professors had to finish their doctoral research, write papers, present in conferences, and yet miraculously also had time for that extra reading that a student requested, or for lunch at D-School Canteen to give a serious answer to a question. Abinash Dash Choudhury Education as the practice of freedom—as opposed to education as the… Read More An Ode to the ‘Ad-Hoc’ Teachers of Ramjas English Department

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Constitutional principles go for a toss in the criminal law of search and seizure

Seizing electronic devices in the absence of proportionality checks violates the right against self-incrimination Soutik Banerjee On 6 December 2023, in the hearing of a petition filed by the Foundation of Media Professionals, Additional Solicitor General S.V. Raju told the Supreme Court that the central government will issue “some guidelines” for the seizure of electronic… Read More Constitutional principles go for a toss in the criminal law of search and seizure

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Pratap Bhanu Mehta on abrogation of Article 370: Has SC established a dangerous precedent for federalism?

No one expected the abrogation to be reversed. But SC’s judgment lacks the reassurance that it has the integrity to uphold the Indian Constitution, in whose name it speaks, in full measure The judgment of the Supreme Court, upholding the abrogation of Article 370, is a massive legal victory for the Narendra Modi government’s approach to Jammu and… Read More Pratap Bhanu Mehta on abrogation of Article 370: Has SC established a dangerous precedent for federalism?

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University Grants Commission aiding the cult of personality

‘Selfie-points’ in universities: What purpose do they serve? Bharat Bhushan The selfie is no longer dismissed by behavioural analysts as symptomatic of self-obsession or narcissism. Experts believe that selfies are also a way to connect and communicate with others. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, for example, was a serious serial selfie-taker with world leaders during his… Read More University Grants Commission aiding the cult of personality

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