The Constitution in Santhali offers the Santhali people easier access to a document that enshrines the rights for which leaders like Munda fought. With a population of over 7 million, the Santhals are the third-largest tribe in the country.

Sengar may not be freed immediately — he is also serving a 10-year sentence for the custodial death of the survivor’s father. But the saga of the Unnao survivor paints a stark picture of how rocky the road to justice can be.

The lukewarm foreign investor interest in India may also have to do with its not being part of the artificial intelligence euphoria, which has fuelled equity markets in the US as well as China, Taiwan and Korea.

While conceding several demands of non-resident Indians regarding investment in India, Finance Minister V P Singh said in New Delhi that the issue of a 5 per cent ceiling on investment in Indian companies would have to be discussed further before any decision could be taken.

Shukla, who died on December 23 at the age of 88, occupied a singular place in Hindi — and Indian — literature, a writer whose work stood slightly apart from its moment, quietly undoing expectations about narrative and form

Equally significant is the Church’s outreach to society’s most neglected: The poor, Dalits, tribals, migrants, and the differently abled

This is the front page of The Indian Express published on December 25, 1985.

Let us not forget that the ‘real issues about religions and religiosity’ rest on the bedrock of faith in supernatural power, which shapes our destiny

Everyone gets obsessed with 'Window'. We read other writers — great writers — but we keep asking each other what it is about the Shukla book that keeps calling us back

In India, despite the prevalence of milk, cheese never quite took off — barring in some communities — because of the interdiction on fermenting/curdling “pure” milk

The yardstick now accepted by the Court to define the Aravalli goes against the red flags raised by expert agencies

This is the front page of The Indian Express published on December 24, 1985.

Liability remains politically contentious. If something goes wrong, who pays, how much, and how quickly do victims get compensated? India’s 2010 law carried a strong moral impulse, shaped by the experience of the Bhopal gas tragedy

The range of appropriate names runs the gamut from flowers and insects to heroes and kings. Politicians, too, have found a place in this nomenclatural biome, particularly in the US.

The India-New Zealand agreement provides for duty-free access for all Indian exports.

Justice was important in the Akhlaq case, therefore, not just for a measure of closure for the victim's family, but also for social healing.

Although the CJI’s oral remarks are not legally binding, they risk shaping national public opinion in a harmful way and may further embolden the current regime to treat brutally those it categorises as “infiltrators/ghuspaithiya”

One can debate whether an Islamic society is the solution to Bangladesh’s challenges surrounding development and identity, but blaming India is certainly not

The actor-writer-director, 69, who died last week, combined his rapier wit and astuteness with remarkable productivity, writing and acting in over 200 films

This is the front page of The Indian Express published on December 23, 1985.

The Yunus government, if it wants to maintain a modicum of credibility, must be seen to calm the situation rather than fanning the flames, as it has done over the last year

If there's one thing the redacted documents have revealed it is this: That when consequences are rare and reputations endlessly salvageable, abuse finds cover

This is a systemic failure that threatens to impact India’s ambitious bid for the 2036 Olympics.

This is the front page of The Indian Express published on December 22, 1985.