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Supreme Court on Right to Privacy
In this issue
15-09-2017
42 STORIES
Books
Kayasth culture
The book describes the richness of Kayasth culture with verve.
Jayati Ghosh
Sanitation project a sham
Interview: Chinmayi Arun
Informational privacy, the next challenge
The Supreme Court’s articulation of the broad contours of the right to privacy is very valuable, says legal expert Chinmayi Arun.
Personal Law
Instant talaq illegal
An account of the legal battle in the triple talaq case, which began in the Supreme Court in 2015 on the issue of gender discrimination faced by Musli
Interview: Bader Sayeed
‘I demand a clear interpretation of Sharia’
Interview with the lawyer-activist Bader Sayeed.
Interview: Hasina Khan
‘Our fight is against patriarchy’
Interview with Hasina Khan, founder of Bebaak Collective.
Books
Interpreting India
The volume provides a great deal of interpretative material on socialism, neoliberalism, nationalism, political authoritarianism and other themes rele
Interview: Mariam Dhawale
‘Reform has to come from within’
Interview with Mariam Dhawale of AIDWA.
Centre's response
On the back foot
The Supreme Court’s verdict seemed to take the wind out of the ruling dispensation’s sails on the issue of privacy, and BJP leaders tied themselves up
Women's right to divorce
Not about gender equality
Public health
Tale of neglect
The death of nearly 60 children in Gorakhpur because of the unavailability of oxygen can be directly attributed to the larger issue of drastic reducti
Public health
A political burial
To counter the negative political impact of the tragic deaths of child-patients at the Gorakhpur hospital, spin doctors of the Uttar Pradesh governmen
The U.S.
Standing up to Nazism in U.S.
The move to take down Confederate statues across the southern States reignites the age-old conflicts between white supremacists and anti-racism activi
Right to privacy
A historic moment
The Supreme Court’s landmark judgment elevating the right to privacy as a fundamental right is a significant reminder of India’s republican values and
Right to privacy
Implications for Aadhaar
The verdict has altered unrecognisably the idea of state power. It is against this altered standard that the court will test the privacy violations of
Tamil Nadu
Three men and a party
The political drama in Tamil Nadu goes on with the two main factions of the AIADMK merging and the third, headed by T.T.V. Dinakaran, trying to sabota
Essay
Of Donald Modi & Narendra Trump
The affinities between Trump and Modi are striking, but none of them bodes well for democracy.
India
‘Centre must protect the Constitution’
Media
Sarkar vs Sarkar
Prasar Bharati’s refusal to broadcast the Tripura Chief Minister’s prerecorded speech raises questions on its autonomy and functioning.
Jammu & Kashmir
Tinderbox petition
The legal challenge to Article 35A, which protects the demographic composition of Jammu and Kashmir, has brought all sides of the political spectrum,
Corporate Affairs
The helmsman returns
Nandan Nilekani’s homecoming opens a new chapter in the Infosys journey.
Personal Law
A nuanced judgment
There is a history of Muslim women fighting for their rights within Muslim law. Justice Kurian Joseph’s judgment recognises this female interpretative
Politics
A leader who failed to lead
Communalism
Conjuring an icon
The BJP’s attempts to exalt Deen Dayal Upadhyaya are part of a strategy to establish a rival iconography in the public consciousness.
Events
In defence of science
In the face of drastically reduced funding for science and research bodies and the blatant promotion of unscientific ideas and mythologies in institut
Textile sector
A looming crisis
Even as India’s status as Asia’s largest producer of man-made fabric faces stiff challenge from China, the sudden induction of the hitherto tax-free t
Venezuela
Trump’s new target
U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat of military intervention in Venezuela following the election of a new Constituent Assembly in that country elicit
Land acquisition
Against the violence of ‘development’
Corporate interests are trying to grab enormous tracts of land with the support of the state, but their attempts are being met with an unprecedented u
Interview: Prof. Tahir Mahmood
‘It is time for the ulema to introspect’
Interview with Prof. Tahir Mahmood, former Chairman of the National Commission for Minorities.
Kerala
Court clears Pinarayi Vijayan in Lavalin case
Communalism
Pushing Hindutva in Assam
Uniform civil code
Demands of diversity
The implementation of a uniform civil code in India should be supplemented by a well-regulated state-recognised regime of alternative dispute resoluti
Pakistan
The deep state strikes back
The military apparatus gains the upper hand again after the Supreme Court disqualifies Nawaz Sharif, a democratically elected Prime Minister, from con
Land acquisition
An ongoing battle
The way in which coal blocks are allotted and land is acquired in Singrauli district of Madhya Pradesh shows that the fight to save natural resources
Triple talaq
The gender question
The court missed an opportunity to articulate a gendered reading of the Constitution. But the verdict is significant for the fact that it marks a sign
Books
A heart and head for conservation
On Indira Gandhi’s unique ecological inheritance and her invaluable contributions as a political leader committed to both development and the environm
Lingayats
Struggling for a new status
The demand of Lingayats for a separate religious tag, delinked from the Veerashaiva Hindu faith, is shrouded in political intrigue. Even as Hindutva’s
Interview: Zakia Soman
‘India needs codified Muslim family law’
Interview with Zakia Soman, co-founder, BMMA.
Personality
The Chimpanzee Lady
Jane Goodall, whose pioneering work on chimpanzee behaviour gave primatology a new direction, calls for urgent measures to save the planet and its wil
Photography
In search of exotic birds
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