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Courts have a habit of playing spoiler. The Punjab and Haryana High Court has reportedly directed the government of Haryana to explain what power or authority cow vigilantes have to raid citizens&rsqu...

Politicians alone do not suffer from myopia: it appears that the members of the Board of Control for Cricket in India share their affliction. The cricket board’s short-sightedness has been evide...

The Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy has published unemployment figures for April 2021. As expected, with the second wave of Covid-19 hitting the economy, unemployment has risen by 73.5 lakh. From...

Transparency in the communication of information has been upheld by the Supreme Court in two recent hearings. The context of both cases was the second surge of Covid-19 infections and the common issue...

Violence is antithetical to the spirit of democracy. Yet, even a cursory examination of Bengal’s political history would show that bloodshed has, unfortunately, been integral to its political cu...

The mandate given by the people to Mamata Banerjee and the Trinamul Congress in West Bengal is certainly a rejection of the politics of communal hatred. But the nuances within the endorsement suggest ...

Politics can prove to be a great leveller. The contrasting political fates of the Left in Kerala and Bengal bear evidence of this hypothesis. In Kerala, the Left Democratic Front created history by re...

Tiding over a pandemic requires detailed preparation at multiple levels on the part of the State. Yet, cohesive planning on the part of the Narendra Modi government has been conspicuous by its absence...

There are many ways of looking at the Trinamul Congress’s resounding victory in Bengal. One way of examining the landslide in favour of Mamata Banerjee would be to acknowledge her personal popul...