For quite some time now, the judiciary has been seen split over the issue of disclosing of their assets. There have been continuous debates on the news channels between former judges, parliamentarians, academicians and the media. It's all fine as long as it's a typical media practice to pack trivial issues in a 'Bollywood' type package and sell it to common man. But this one is surely not amongst those "trivial" ones and demands a deeper retrospection as well as its relevance in the post-independence India. Justice has essentially remained linked with religion in India since time immemorial. Be... Read Blog »

The Constitution of India says that a person who wants to stand in elections should be of minimum 25 years of age and be a citizen of India but the Constitution of 'Contemporary Indian Politics' goes far beyond. It says that one should have gone to prison at least once, one should have incited communal tensions somewhere or should be involved in some scams in his recent past. Leave apart some exceptions, Varun Gandhi, the new scion in Indian Politics is certainly no exception. He was booked under National Security Act (NSA) recently by UP government for inciting communal hatred... Read Blog »

Times since independence, general elections in India have come a long way, but throughout this post-independence era they have truly reflected the federal nature of the Indian polity. When in the neighboring countries of India, still ballot-paper polling is still in practice, Indian voting system has moved onto electronic voting machines. Certainly, this has eased up and fast-tracked the polling process but still there is a lot of scope for improvements. Main aim of conducting elections in any region is to act as a filter to prevent the 'rouge' elements from entering in the legislative process and at the same... Read Blog »

Bull's eye Sunday, January 4 Good bye 2008! Good bye 2008! It came with lot of hopes and is going with great optimism. How much cheer it brought to our hearts and how much we mourned, it's not something which can be weighed on a pan but surely, it would make a difference if we could learn something from our past and from our mistakes in our coming days. Let's start from stock market! After all its money which rules the world. There was a state of a boom and NSE was flying high above 20000... Read Blog »