K Raveendran

A CLEAR CASE OF ARUN JAITLEY’S CLASS IC EXPOSITION Some of former Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi’s judgments, particularly towards the latter part of his tenure, had raised eyebrows as they were seen by many as suffering faults in…

YOUTH MORE WORRIED ABOUT EXTRA BURDEN THAN SECULARISM No other cause in recent times has evoked such spontaneous participation by the public as the campaign against the Citizenship Amendment Act. The previous occasion when this happened…

ALL HOPES PINNED ON EXPECTED MARKET STABILITY The spurt in global oil prices could not have come at a worse time for India. The benchmark Brent crude at the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) futures market traded at $67.02 a barrel at the…

NEW RULES THREATEN FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT AND FREEDOM The next three months are going to be crucial from the point of view of individual privacy. The government has informed the Supreme Court, hearing a plea by social media giants Facebook and…

A unique feature of all environmental reports is that they are never received by the governments, for which these are essentially meant, in the same earnestness with which those reports are prepared. There is a complete disconnect between…

It is dangerous to claim that whenever a court decision is against you, it is threat to democracy and whenever it suits you, it is democracy at work. This is what former home and finance minister P Chidambaram has done. Having exercised…

Modi government continues to push its programme for getting Aadhaar linked to social media accounts of users, such as Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp etc., in the name of fighting fake news, defamatory articles, pornographic materials,…