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Let’s stop at partial recall

Tuesday 24 June '08

The voters of the Nagar Panchayats of Gunderdehi and Nawagarh in Durg district and of Rajpur in Sarguja district...
The intimate enemy

Saturday 7 June '08

The political discourse around the recent blasts in Jaipur has fallen into a predictable pattern.
Grammar of anarchy

Monday 18 February '08

Five months after Lok Sabha speaker Somnath Chatterjee’s proposal of ‘no work no pay’ for legislators...
Democracy’s Bilkis test

Tuesday 22 January '08

The judgment on the Bilkis Bano case provides an opportunity to reflect on a range of issues relating to inter-community relations...
Naxal-taming, without success

Wednesday 26 December '07

Even as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asserted at the chief ministers’ meet on internal security...
Violence within, politics without

Wednesday 12 December '07

Mahatma Gandhi once said: “I object to violence because when it appears to do good...
Politics and crime: joined at the hip

Tuesday 20 November '07

Nandigram is not the only portent of how criminalised Indian politics has become. In Bihar, not so long ago...
Judges in unchartered territory

Monday 22 October '07

Judicial activism has suddenly emerged as a major theme ever since the recent observations of a Supreme Court judge...
Touching some raw nerves

Thursday 27 September '07

The unseemly controversy generated by Major General V. K. Singh’s book India’s External Intelligence:
Left out on coalition courtesies

Saturday 25 August '07

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
Is Kiran Bedi justified in her protest?

Tuesday 31 July '07

Supersession is indeed a larger issue of administrative and police reforms, transcending the instance of an individual officer
No Maya magic, just message

Monday 28 May '07

The recent Uttar Pradesh election has provided a stark message to the Congress, particularly to those in the party who were expecting Rahul...
Police under the academic scanner

Monday 19 March '07

Research into the organisational and human dimensions of police functioning can unravel the intricacies of police deviance
Police reform is above politics

Wednesday 10 January '07

The resistance to reform by some CMs on federal grounds is constitutionally untenable
Delhi and the circle of unreason

Tuesday 19 December '06

Manila’s NCR has been developed as a gateway to the world. Japan has created the Tokyo Metro Government as a regional system
Court holds no magic wand

Wednesday 27 September '06

In thinking of police reforms, notions like autonomy need to be disaggregated
On Naxalites, state won’t join the dots

Thursday 31 August '06

The Naxalites’ expansion has been impressive: from 55 districts in nine states in 2003 to 170 districts in 15 states in 2006
The thin edge of the Naxal wedge

Friday 14 April '06

Why is Naxal activity growing? The virtual disappearance of land reforms is a factor
Do Naxals have a new gambit?

Friday 17 March '06

Naxal groups in future could target public property and officials, and spare ordinary people
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