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For so many students sitting in their homes and not knowing when the lockdown will end for their particular schools or…
By Ajit Ranade |
In September 2018 a five-judge constitution bench that included the Chief Justice of India, pronounced an important…
By Ajit Ranade |
Why do people repay a loan? Firstly, because they are bound by a loan contract to repay. If they break the contract,…
By Martin Macwan |
Hathras is the first case of Independent India where the State has deprived the parents of sexual abuse victim to…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
An 18-year-old girl had been brought out of one of the best-known public hospitals in the country and left at the curb…
By Ajit Ranade |
This is the first time in India’s history that we are experiencing a steep recession without any adverse shock of…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The overwhelming feeling that comes to mind about the manner in which the Uttar Pradesh administration has handled the…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
There are, broadly speaking, two approaches to building as also to breaking – be it a policy, an institution or for…
Covid has altered everybody's life, but the closure of schools has meant the impact on the very young could be…
By Ganesh N Devy |
The contempt of court case against the Tamil actor Suriya (which was fortunately and wisely dropped by the Madras High…
By Ajit Ranade |
The economy shrank by nearly one fourth during the first three months of this fiscal year. Much of this was due to the…
By Ajit Ranade |
The past week has been dominated by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s remark alluding to an “act of God”. She was…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
In a course on journalism that I taught years ago, one exercise I often asked was for the class to roam around Mumbai’s…
By Ajit Ranade |
In the run up to the 2012 presidential elections in the United States, the Guardian newspaper published a story of how…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
A 22-kilogram silver brick marks the symbolic laying of the foundations of what we are promised will be a grand temple…