Ajay K. Mehra
The voters of the Nagar Panchayats of Gunderdehi and Nawagarh in Durg district and of Rajpur in Sarguja district...
The political discourse around the recent blasts in Jaipur has fallen into a predictable pattern.
Five months after Lok Sabha speaker Somnath Chatterjee’s proposal of ‘no work no pay’ for legislators...
The judgment on the Bilkis Bano case provides an opportunity to reflect on a range of issues relating to inter-community relations...
Even as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asserted at the chief ministers’ meet on internal security...
Mahatma Gandhi once said: “I object to violence because when it appears to do good...
Nandigram is not the only portent of how criminalised Indian politics has become. In Bihar, not so long ago...
Judicial activism has suddenly emerged as a major theme ever since the recent observations of a Supreme Court judge...
The unseemly controversy generated by Major General V. K. Singh’s book India’s External Intelligence:
The Left has borrowed from the Congress the model of ‘outside support’ only to consolidate itself by asserting its veto on a variety of issues
Supersession is indeed a larger issue of administrative and police reforms, transcending the instance of an individual officer
The recent Uttar Pradesh election has provided a stark message to the Congress, particularly to those in the party who were expecting Rahul...
Research into the organisational and human dimensions of police functioning can unravel the intricacies of police deviance
The resistance to reform by some CMs on federal grounds is constitutionally untenable
Manila’s NCR has been developed as a gateway to the world. Japan has created the Tokyo Metro Government as a regional system
In thinking of police reforms, notions like autonomy need to be disaggregated
The Naxalites’ expansion has been impressive: from 55 districts in nine states in 2003 to 170 districts in 15 states in 2006
Why is Naxal activity growing? The virtual disappearance of land reforms is a factor
Naxal groups in future could target public property and officials, and spare ordinary people
