State versus the people Future of freedom Usha RamanathanThe government’s decision to launch mass surveillance raises concerns beyond the freedom of speech and expression and is an extraordinary assumption o
Constitutionality of Aadhaar Plethora of plaintsUSHA RAMANATHANA range of petitioners challenged the constitutionality of the UID project, raising a spectrum of issues that included right to privacy, fear of a pro
Right to privacy Implications for AadhaarUSHA RAMANATHANThe verdict has altered unrecognisably the idea of state power. It is against this altered standard that the court will test the privacy violations of
Aadhaar project Blundering along, dangerouslyUSHA RAMANATHANThe Aadhaar project’s headlong push towards “total” enrolment of Indian citizens threatens the privacy of individuals on an unprecedented scale, while
UID project Dispelling the hazeUSHA RAMANATHANThat the lawmakers of the country have found themselves in a haze of incomprehension about the UID project, which is being promoted as a “game changer
Innocent convictsUSHA RAMANATHANExoneration of the innocent through DNA testing in the U.S. breaks the silence on the ills besetting the criminal justice system.
Futile penaltyUSHA RAMANATHANAnti-terrorism laws create cultures of impunity, making it a route fraught with peril for the imposition of the extreme penalty of death.
Setback to UIDUSHA RAMANATHANThe Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance finds the UID project to be conceptualised with no clarity and directionless.
Enrolment sagaUSHA RAMANATHANThe incentive of inclusion appears not to be sufficient to get people to enrol for the UID, so the strategy has shifted to the threat of exclusion.
Why all in one?USHA RAMANATHANGiven the experience with extraordinary powers vested in any institution, the wisdom of having a super-powerful body must be debated.
A case for a public inquiryUSHA RAMANATHANDecember 13: Terror over Democracy, by Nirmalangshu Mukherji, with a "Foreword Essay"by Noam Chomsky, Promilla & Co. in association with Bibliophile S
To kill a courtUSHA RAMANATHANA quiescent India toes the U.S. line in the battle over the International Criminal Court.
SlideshowCaptured in timeAs independent India turns 75, some of the defining images of those seven decades.
