Uniform Civil Code Uniform Civil Code: BJP's proposal raises concerns of anti-minority measuresT.K. RajalakshmiThere are genuine apprehensions that a proposal for a uniform civil code coming from the BJP will ultimately be less about uniformity and equality and
Vaccine mandates A shot in the arm: Supreme Court calls for review of COVID vaccine mandates T.K. RajalakshmiThe Supreme Court calls for greater transparency and accountability in public health measures and directs all governments and organisations to review
Cover Story: Language Imperialism Linguistic imperialism: BJP pronouncements on promoting Hindi spark outrageT.K. RajalakshmiThe BJP’s periodic pronouncements on making Hindi the single national language are proof of its inability to understand that India’s enormous ling
Cover Story: Bulldozing the idea of India Demolition squad: Hindutva mobs go on a rampageDIVYA TRIVEDIANANDO BHAKTOT.K. RAJALAKSHMIANUPAMA KATAKAMVIKHAR AHMED SAYEEDWith Assembly elections in three States not far away, the Hindutva machine goes into overdrive, stoking communal tension in several States by targetin
Cover Story: Bulldozing the idea of India Meat ban during Navaratri: BJP’s latest polarising moveT.K. RajalakshmiThe recent ban on the sale of meat during Navaratri in parts of Delhi and Uttar Pradesh, which is part of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s aggressive at
Cover Story: Bulldozing the idea of India Hindutvaisation of education: Narendra Modi-led government's game plan under NEP T.K. RajalakshmiSerious attempts to change what is taught and the outlook towards education itself have taken place under the stewardship of Prime Minister Narendra M
Centre-State Relations Muddying the waters: Controversy over Centre's interference in Chandigarh government employeesT.K. RajalakshmiThe Central government stirs up a controversy by changing the composition of the Bhakra Beas Management Board and issuing a notification to apply Cent
COVID-19 Update COVID: Too soon to say the worst of the pandemic is behind us T.K. RajalakshmiThe number of cases and deaths due to COVID-19 may be low at present, but it is too soon to conclude that the crisis is over. There remain at least th
Common University Entrance Test CUET challenge: Attempt to centralise education and undermine federalismT.K. RajalakshmiThe proposed Common University Entrance Test is a move towards centralising education and undermining the federal structure, something similar to repl
AGRICULTURE Supreme Court-appointed committee report on three farm laws reiterates Modi government's stanceT.K. RajalakshmiThe report of the Supreme Court-appointed committee on the three new farm laws, released by one of its members, seems to have been an exercise in reit
COVID excess deaths COVID casualties: The uncounted deadT.K. RajalakshmiA Lancet study estimates that more COVID-19 deaths occurred in India than official statistics show, but the Central government refuses to acknowledge
ANTI-CONVERSION LAW Targeting minorities: BJP government's anti-conversion Bill in HaryanaT.K. RajalakshmiThe BJP government of Manohar Lal Khattar in Haryana introduces an anti-conversion Bill amid stiff resistance from the opposition parties in the Assem
LABOUR Gig workers vulnerable to exploitation T.K. RajalakshmiGig workers present the new face of employment in India, with no fixed working hours and no proper terms of employment to which the employer can be he
Assembly elections Assembly election results: How women voted T.K. RajalakshmiThe claim by a section of the media and the BJP that the ‘silent’ woman voter had risen above caste and other considerations and voted for the BJP
LIVELIHOOD ISSUES MGNREGA: Wake-up call T.K. RajalakshmiA Parliamentary Standing Committee pulls up the Rural Development Ministry in its report on a “critical evaluation” of the MGNREGA and calls for m
Labour issues Women on the warpath: Haryana's anganwadi workers and helpers on indefinite strikeT.K. RajalakshmiSeventy per cent of Haryana’s anganwadi workers and helpers have been on an indefinite strike for two months demanding that the government honour it
Cover Story: The hijab controversy The hijab ban threatens Muslim women’s access to education T.K. RajalakshmiThe hijab ban in government-run and minority-aided educational institutions seeks to undo whatever little progress has been made in getting Muslims ed
Oxfam report Economic violence: Oxfam's latest report tears into inequalityT.K. Rajalakshmi The latest Oxfam report highlights how man-made inequality killed more people than COVID-19 did during the pandemic and suggests a redistribution of w
Union Budget shuts its eye to people’s distressT.K. RajalakshmiAgriculture and allied activities allocations slashed; MGNREGA allocation reduced by 25 per cent; neither people friendly nor progressive; "kisan dron
Omicron-fuelled third wave of pandemic Omicron spread: Down but not outT.K. RajalakshmiData from metros show that the Omicron-led surge may be on the decline, but it is still too early to declare that the third wave has ended. It is time
COVID-19 Omicron cases fuelling the surge in India’s third COVID-19 wave T.K. RajalakshmiHowever reluctant the government may be to admit to the fact, it is clear from the data that not only is India in the midst of the third wave but that
Legislation The Prohibition of Child Marriage (Amendment) Bill has a flawed notion of gender justice T.K. RajalakshmiThe Prohibition of Child Marriage (Amendment) Bill, which raises the age of marriage of women from 18 to 21, strikes a blow against women’s empowerm
COVID-19 Pandemic COVID: Omicron concerns rise in India as virus rages in other parts of the world T.K. RajalakshmiAlthough the new virus variant’s spread in India is relatively low when compared with the situation in the United Kingdom and the United States, a d
NFHS-5 report Families in distress: Latest NFHS findings paint bleak pictureT.K. RajalakshmiThe latest NFHS findings point to many areas that need improvement, but the Central government decides to give the whole report a positive spin, under
Elon Musk and the culture of greed pride If we take seriously the premise that cinema is reflective of the times it is embedded in, then the sudden expression of money and luxury as heroic en
SlideshowSri Lanka: The stranded stateSri Lanka has faced a series of misfortunes—the wrath of a 26-year-long civil war, a devastating tsunami, the Easter bombings of 2018, the spread of
