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“The IAS officers’ loyalty has to be to the people, the Constitution and the nation”
The recent stand-off between Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers and the Delhi government brought into sharp focus the “asymmetry in the architecture of governance” in the Union Territory based in the national capital, a steady…
Supreme Court collegium decision final, anything else malafide, says Fali Nariman
If the five-member Collegium of the Supreme Court, which includes the Chief Justice of India, decides that a certain judge has to be appointed, then its word is final and a contrary decision by the government will be considered malafide,…
SAWM writes to Mamata Banerjee against media attacks
Mamata Banerjee,
Chief Minister,
West Bengal
Dear Madam,
We are a group of women journalists from states across India.
We have noted with concern that on Monday, April 23, which was the last day of nomination
for the…
Hidden Persuaders, Or How To Steal an Election Through Social Media
The 16th Lok Sabha Elections in 2014 represented something of a watershed in the country’s politics, with the campaign juggernaut fronted by the present prime minister, Narendra Modi, estimated as one of the most expensive ever in the…
Political Gup-Shup: Of VIP culture & true followers of Mahatma
Delivering the valedictory speech at the plenary session of the Congress last week, an impassioned party president Rahul Gandhi declared that his first task was to break the “two walls” in Indian politics — the wall between party workers…