A Shaky Aadhaar

Concerns over data security and privacy in the programme must be addressed. The former chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), Nandan Nilekani, wrote in these columns about ‘Why Supreme Court judgment on Aadhaar…

Sahitya Academy Is Now Dirty

When dissent was seen as dirty. Sahitya Akademi has broken its silence. But the rage against the writers’ protest was the most instructive part of this episode The Sahitya Akademi has broken its silence. One year and five…

RAHUL’s ‘Yep’

In what is being selectively, discreetly, succinctly, laconically termed as Rahul Gandhi’s tacit-yet-firmest-cum-assured “Yep”/”Yup”/”Yes” to indefatigable, enervating Narendra Modi astutely engineered BJP-NDA sweep in the ongoing…