The pro-secession-for-Kashmir meeting organised by the pro-Maoist Democratic Students Union at the Jawaharlal Nehru University on February 9, 2016, could well have been an official function of Delhi University if a particular candidate had become Vice Chancellor in 2010. Readers of this column may recall that in September 2010, the … Read More
The agitation by the Patel community in Gujarat and Jats in Haryana for reservation in educational institutions and government jobs underlines the urgency for a comprehensive and dispassionate review of the country’s quota policies at multiple levels. The onus is on the Supreme Court which in 1992 upheld the then … Read More
The Supreme Court’s directive to the Reserve Bank of India, to furnish the names of loan defaulters who owe more than Rs 500 crore to 29 public sector banks, is a half measure because it comes with the proviso that the list be presented in a sealed envelope. This … Read More
The selection of the pampered New Delhi Municipal Council, merely 3 per cent of the area and population of the capital city, for upgradation under the Centre’s Smart Cities Mission, embarrassingly overlapped with the prolonged strike by municipal workers of the three Delhi Municipal Corporations and highlighted some problems that … Read More
Under a Supreme Court directed public interest petition, the BJP-led Central government will have to articulate its stand within six weeks, on whether personal laws can override the constitutional provisions of equality, regardless of religion, race, caste and gender. This could pave the way for a uniform civil code or … Read More
Microcephaly, a horrific mutation of the head and brain in new born children, is possibly the greatest man-made medical tragedy since the Thalidomide disaster of the late 1950s, when thousands of babies were born with stumps instead of limbs due to a pill prescribed to counter morning sickness. The Thalidomide … Read More
