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‘Critics of Hindutva do not acknowledge, far less appreciate, the remarkable agility and adaptability of Hindutva’

The problem with a return to Nehru

Varghese K. George

‘The working of the Tenth Schedule has been patchy’

A case that scans the working of the anti-defection law

‘With weakened constitutional safeguards and institutions, the judiciary, including the Supreme Court of India, has been slow to stop these attacks on democracy’

Protect the power of ‘the little man’ in a democracy

‘In the absence of a significant climb in public spending to enhance human capabilities, there will be no hope for a generation of young Indians’

India needs a Budget for its young

Jayan Jose Thomas

‘The employer needs to ensure that the working environment is safe and women friendly’

Slow progress to creating a safe workplace for women

P.P. Mohammed Faizal. File

The curious case of the disqualification of a politician

At a brick kiln at Ramasara village in Hanumangarh district of Rajasthan

Social security and the story of two Budgets

Asmi Sharma , Nancy Pathak ,Nikhil Dey

Disruptions at the Civic Centre on the day of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi Mayor elections, in New Delhi

Reigning over the capital, from above

Mathew Idiculla

‘Health experts have been struggling with disease-causing microbes that have become resistant to drugs’

A manifesto for tackling the silent pandemic of Antimicrobial Resistance

Soumya Swaminathan

‘The group has sought to dismiss the allegations and has suggested that this was not just an attack on the group but on the Indian success story as well. But that does not seem to have convinced private creditors and investors’

The Adani story and Indian neoliberalism

C.P. Chandrasekhar

The Lok Sabha Speaker, Om Birla

House rules and the weapon of expunction

‘History has repeatedly shown us that discrimination within religious boundaries often breaches those frontiers and tends to impinge on a person’s relationship with the wider world’

The spirit of the law lies in this dissenting judgment

Suhrith Parthasarathy

The All India Conference of Directors General/Inspectors General of Police, in New Delhi

India’s law and order matrix needs a reboot

At a job fair near Chennai

India must avoid growing into a dystopia

Pulapre Balakrishnan