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Juvenile justice system
In this issue
22-01-2016
42 STORIES
Economic Perspectives
A candid assessment?
Economic policies
Price of economic policy failures
Sashi Kumar
Beeping the beep
Civil Services
Primacy at stake
The IAS lobby is upset about the Seventh Central Pay Commission recommendation for parity in pay and promotion for all all-India services.
Lead Story
Sensitising the state
Architecture
The idea of the Taj
The Taj Mahal, considered the greatest achievement in the world of Indo-Islamic architecture, was originally conceived as “a masterpiece for ages to c
Labour Issues
Laws for automatons
Trade unions react strongly to the fresh set of amendments the government has introduced in the Factories Act without discussions with them.
Legislation
Excluded by law
The Haryana Panchayati Raj (Amendment) Act setting educational and other eligibility criteria for candidates can have disastrous social consequences.
Water Resources
Lessons from Colorado
A plan for sustainable management strategies drawing from experiences in the Colorado River Basin in western U.S.
Physics
Breaking bonds to evaporate
Legislation
Teeth for an Act
The long-pending amendments to the S.C. and S.T. (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, which expand the range of offences committed against them, is finally
Samson Moyo
Intellectual giant
Samson Moyo (1954-2015) was tireless and unwavering in his quest for a humane and just social order with agrarian reform and social security at its co
Science & Technology
Photon in a fibre
Space
A pathfinder
People
Tale of hope & despair
A street hawker’s indomitable spirit informs his struggle to keep alive his daughters’ dreams of sporting glory.
Controversy
Politics of a case
The Congress has apparently won the first round in the National Herald case with Sonia and Rahul securing bail and the party recording some electoral
Superconductivity
The new wave
Books
Importance of Myanmar
A significant contribution to India’s knowledge of the East, which is essential for a successful “Look East” policy.
Syria
A chance for peace
The UNSC resolution on Syria takes into account the ground realities in the region, but Western leaders persist with their contradictory statements.
West Asia
Growing hatred
In Jerusalem, the bitterness between the settlers and Palestinians shows signs of worsening as both sides increasingly use guns and knives to settle s
Books
A life in theatre
A useful work on Badal Sircar, the theatre stalwart whose plays initially took up the concerns of the middle-class youth of Kolkata but later articula
SCO
Road to multipolarity
The Zhengzhou conference of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation adds more muscle to the grouping by incorporating India and Pakistan as its full mem
Delhi
An odd (-even) formula
Tourism
The Odisha experience
A visit to Konark, Puri and Bhubaneswar in winter can be enriching in terms of experiencing their tradition and culture, be it in the performing arts,
Diplomacy
Showmanship, no breakthrough
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s surprise stopover at Lahore is of a piece with his government’s blow-hot-blow-cold approach to Pakistan.
Interview: Ved Kumari
‘Government giving in to reactionary ideas’
Interview with Ved Kumari, Professor of Law, University of Delhi, and Chairperson of the Delhi Judicial Academy.
Shahabuddin Ahmed
Painting for peace
The Bangladeshi painter Shahabuddin Ahmed amazes one and all with his creativity and inspires with his rebellious free spirit.
Interview: Swagata Raha
‘Replicating a failed Western model’
Interview with Swagata Raha, Senior Legal Researcher (Consultant) at the Centre for Child and the Law, National Law School of India University, Bengal
B.D. Sharma
Activist officer
Brahm Dev Sharma (1929-2015), a lifelong champion of tribal rights, will be missed most keenly by the Gonds of Bastar.
Juvenile Justice Amendment Act
Regressive step
The Ministry of Women and Child Development’s justification of the new amendment on the grounds that reformation homes are not leading to reformation
NCRB data
Data in doubt
The NCRB data used to justify the new law bringing down the age of responsibility for criminal action are open to interpretation.
Interview: Dr Shekhar P. Seshadri and Dr Preeti Jacob
‘The child should be given a chance to reform’
Interview with Dr Shekhar P. Seshadri and Dr Preeti Jacob of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at NIMHANS, Bengaluru.
Lead Story
How Sujit turned over a new leaf
Cover Story
Of juveniles and justice
The passage of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children)Bill, 2015, in Parliament exposes the vulnerability of the system in the wake of
Juvenile homes
Just hellholes
Juvenile justice homes in Delhi are overcrowded and understaffed. Homes for children are plentiful in Maharashtra but the facilities are misused and d
Letters
Letters to the Editor
Essay
Constitution and secularism
The 42nd Amendment made formal the Constitution’s basic commitment to the idea of a secular state—quite contrary to the BJP position that the amendmen
'Unpaid' labour
In the master’s service
Bitti Chakri, a retrograde practice of engaging Dalits for the household work of landlords for a pittance, continues in the rural areas of north-weste
SPOTLIGHT
Games people play
The vested interests of politicians and businessmen make sports governing bodies breeding grounds of corruption and nepotism.
Juvenile justice
End of innocence
The government’s decision to amend the juvenile justice law will do little to address the root cause of juvenile crime, most of which is owing to pove
Lead Story
Denial of dignity and rights
Hydrology
Wetlands in peril
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