Ramrajya or Raperajya? The Hathras rape case
The media is used and manipulated according to the whims of the government. Regarding the Hathras rape case, the media acted as one of the major trigger factors.
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Farm Reform Bills 2020: A Democratic Legislation?
The idea of the bills is to liberalize farm markets hoping it will make the system more efficient and allow for better price realizations.
The Government says shh: No Question Hour!
The Question Hour is seen as a quintessential of direct democracy as this right is guaranteed in Article 75 of our Constitution.
On Defection: Why Always the Congress MLA?
The BJP’s eagerness to topple elected governments has created an alternative for the new generation defector, the Congress defector.
Women’s Road Safety: Feasible or Distant Dream?
Part of the reason why women do not feel safe in public spaces is because of the threat of gender-based offences and sexual threats.
A Hard Rain Falling: Radicalism in Indian Politics
A baleful feature of contemporary Indian politics is the subjugation of the mind to partisanship in the narrowest sense.
Pressure Groups in the USA and UK – A comparative study
Pressure Groups in the USA were found to be more successful than the UK, as the Cabinet with agenda-setting, coalitional-cohesion, the confidence of the House created strong incentives for it to legislate for majoritarian voters instead of special interests.
Indian economy at crossroads
The country is paying the price for neglecting investment in health and education over many decades. It may be hoped that this pandemic induces a change for the positive in how the government views sectors like health and education.
The poor, the gloom, and the failing of a society
Rich get cake, poor get cane. Many are dying daily on the roads, in trains in their attempt to reach home, to their families. Rich got flight-down home; poor got flies on their dead bodies. One wonders if the constitutional provisions like human dignity, equality, fraternity include the poor.
Indian federalism and the changing times
The framers of the Constituent Assembly had envisioned a ‘Strong Centre but not weak states.’ In an era of ‘cooperative federalism,’ states are to be the partners in nation-building. Leadership and well as policy implementation seem to be the foundation of federal dynamics during any crisis of such massive proportion.
Catch-22 of a pandemic: Inception of a disciplined majority
Black Death in fourteenth-century Europe led to more centralized states. The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 also consolidated statist power in Europe and America. This pandemic is a portal to a new world—the nature of newness matters.
Planning state’s approach towards low income workers
“I work here every day and help my employer in cooking, packing, and serving customers. From the time this virus has hit us badly, customers have reduced eating food outside. Police have also been indicating us from last week that our center would be shut in the next couple of days. I am paid Rs….
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