Customary laws are important as a bulwark against forceful assimilation and homogenisation. At the same time, as the SC rightly pointed out 'collective ethos of the Constitution' ensures 'that there is no discrimination against women'

Botched investigations and trials that span decades do an added injustice to the victims

As CM, the biggest allegation against V S was that he behaved more like the Opposition leader. The jibe was about the mass agitations he led – such as against encroachment in the tourist paradise of Munnar or the fast he underwent demanding a ban on the deadly pesticide endosulfan

If we say that 'we have a history of failure in probes in terror cases', who is to be blamed? The police alone? Let us admit that it is a collective failure, and we need to work together to streamline the criminal justice system

This is the front page of The Indian Express published on July 21, 1985.

Allowing covert evidence in matrimonial disputes is consequential. It could have a bearing on other kinds of matrimonial issues, including marital rape

According to the state government, over 1.19 lakh bighas of land have been reclaimed since 2021 and over 50,000 people have been evicted. These statistics encompass homes, schools, livelihoods, lifelines and lifetimes. An absence of humane policy response stands to render eviction not as an administrative necessity, but as a form of institutional violenc

India’s fundamentals — demographics, digital depth, and democratic stability —are attractive

The problems in India's labour markets, however, require deeper and far-reaching policy changes

Literature may be immortal, but for an entire population in Gaza that faces starvation, books too have become reduced to mere possessions, emergency currency to be exchanged for food

If import dependence is a given, the policy response, too, must adjust to that reality. Unfortunately, that has not been the case with fertilisers

Equality and mutual respect should form the bedrock of bilateral relations. Respect for core concerns cannot be one-sided

The anti-reservation agitation in Gujarat is likely to be withdrawn following an agreement between the government and anti-reservation leaders.

This is the front page of The Indian Express published on July 18, 1985.

Neither the JD(U) nor the BJP, partners in the ruling alliance, can afford to turn their back on the return of insecurities on the law and order front

MEA's sharp rebuttal serves as a timely reminder to the West, particularly Europe, of its own manoeuvres in pursuit of energy security

If it feels like regression it’s because it was not so long ago that public outcry forced Big Tech to roll back or modify the heavily gendered aspects of early AI voice assistants like Siri, Alexa and Cortana

This is the front page of The Indian Express published on July 17, 1985.

The system has led to bizarre appointments like a chemistry professor being posted to head the arts and history-oriented Patna College, a history professor being made the head of the Patna Science College, and a male history professor appointed the principal of the Magadh Mahila College.

An overzealous Raj Bhavan, and its political masters at the Centre, should not undo the hard-won gains in the UT

India is rightly concerned, and is somewhat shocked, that it lost the diplomatic high ground after Operation Sindoor

If the story of Tom Hanks’s character was a sprint through mid-20th-century American history, the supercentenarian’s life must have been a marathon

To increase its leverage, New Delhi must focus on getting its own house in order: Accelerate economic reform, bolster technological capacity, and foster social and political unity

One must ask how alone, how abandoned, how desperate a young woman must feel to believe that the only way to be heard is by setting herself on fire