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The right to freedom of religion and practising, professing and propagating it freely, subject to reasonable restrictions under the Constitution, forms the backbone of our secular country. Ensuring gender equality and striving towards a more inclusive society is also a salient feature of our Constitution as well. And who would have thought that the right [...]

The multiple terror attacks in Brussels last week shocked the world yet again. They were even more unnerving because they hit the nerve centre of the European Union (EU)- Brussels, where offices of prominent EU institutions such as the European Commission and the Council of the European Union. It is true that there have been [...]

A legislation and the way it was passed by the Parliament recently grabbed headlines, and not for all the right reasons. This was the Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and Other Subsidies, Benefits and Services) Bill, 2016. It is related to that ‘enigma’ (for many) called the Aadhaar number, a unique 14-digit number that is [...]

This week was primarily dedicated to the fall of the ‘King of Good Times’ Vijay Mallya, with a slew of cases being filed against him for being a ‘wilful defaulter’ in loans owed to a number of banks, and then his sudden ‘takeoff’ to a foreign country. While details of this are still emerging, one [...]

The Union Ministry of Finance presented the Budget in Parliament last week and as always, there has been a lot of debate surrounding the schemes it introduced, their viability and the general inclination of the budget. Many have touted this year’s budget as ‘pro-poor’. While that is not a bad thing, there have been allegations [...]

One of the most renowned universities of India, producing prolific academicians, bureaucrats, diplomats etc.- the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in Delhi became the hub controversy this past week. It all started with an event organized to commemorate the death anniversary of Afzal Guru, who had been convicted in the Parliament attack case and had been [...]

The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the Zika virus outbreak to be a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) last week. In the past few years, confirmed cases have been reported from Brazil, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Suriname and Venezuela. While the disease has been exceedingly reported in […]

While there was much to report and write about this week, one rather interesting term that caught attention was “VVIP Racism”. The term is interesting for it combines two topics that are politically very sensitive- that of “Very Very Important Persons” (VVIPs) and “racism”, that is, discrimination based on one’s race. The former needs no […]

Every time we think the controversy over the debate on ‘intolerance’ has died down, it rears it head again. But one does wonder- why? Everyone who questions the opinions expressed by celebrities on the issue is actually making all the concerns on intolerance ring true. We get indignant everytime a celebrity says that India has […]

Prime Minister Narendra Modi rolled out the action plan for the now popular ‘Start Up India, Stand Up India’ scheme at the Start Up India meet on Saturday. A lot has been written about the promises of the scheme and its intricacies flood the newspapers and the world wide web already,  including steps like setting […]