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Thursday and Jantar Mantar in New Delhi, just this side of Parliament Street and a kilometre from Parliament House, which was not long ago claimed as "Waqf Property", will see a massive protest against the Modi Government's Waqf Board Amendment Bill, 2024, spearheaded by the All-India Muslim Personal Law Board, a body of mostly Muslim lawyers, clerics and Islamic scholars.

U.S. President Donald Trump's announcement of reciprocal tariffs on India starting April 2 has caused serious concern in New Delhi. India's high import taxes on American goods have long been contentious, now affecting trade partners.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Monday, March 10, 2025, raided several premises of former Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh Bhupesh Baghel as part of probe into a money laundering case involving his son Chaitanya Baghel, which Congress has alleged a part of BJP’s political conspiracy. Bhupesh Baghel’s office has said, if someone is trying to stop Congress in Punjab through this conspiracy, then it is a misunderstanding.

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin’s protest against imposition of Hindi and his assertion that the state is “ready for another language war” is not merely politics, it is rather manifestation of assertion of Tamilian sub nationality. For him the move of Modi government to impose Hindi is a direct assault on the cultural and social ethics of the Tamilians.

United States President Donald Trump’s abusing global trade by tariff retaliation with countries having trade deficit has raised much hue and cry. However the magnitude of trade deficit with India is insignificant due to low stake (5 percent), as compared to Vietnam and China.

The Bihar assembly elections are still months ahead but why waste time? The Bharatiya Janata Party is in a hurry much before the elections. And it doesn't matter if Prime Minister Narendra Modi continues to cultivate his ‘Sabka Saath Sabka Vikas’ narrative, there is little evidence to prove that the Haryana, Maharashtra, the Uttar Pradesh bypolls and the Delhi assembly elections weren't won by fanning Hindu sentiments.

A huge campaign is going on across the country about India aspiring to become a developed country in 2047. There is nothing wrong in targeting something big with the hope that even if it fails, we could still reach somewhere near to what had been the goal. The goal, however, should not be so unrealistic that people think it infeasible to begin with. India is currently the fastest growing economy in the world and there is a possibility of maintaining the relatively high growth in the coming years compared to global average.

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin and Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah have both opposed the delimitation exercise due in 2029. Census 2021 has to be completed by then. COVID-19 and the government’s attitude to the caste census, had held up the census. Delimitation process was needed because of the rise in population.

Just in the nick of time! Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta saved Prime Minister Narendra Modi more than embarrassment. She didn't let "Modi's Guarantee" go waste like it has occasionally before. Prime Minister Modi had underwritten the BJP's 'Mahila Samriddhi Yojana', which it had promised for women voters of Delhi if they voted the BJP to power and sent Arvind Kejriwal packing!

A shift to the far right, democratic decay, and a crisis of constitutional beliefs have created a near perfect storm for backlash against rights of minorities, whether they be marginalised along caste, class, gender or sexuality. For long, the language of the law has been that of men. For example, the standard of reasonableness is that of the man on a Clapham omnibus. In that way, as Catharine MacKinon reminds us, the testifying of a witness is so brutal that it resembles ‘re-raping’ the victim. Much has already been written about the backlash in courts, against rights of transgender persons and women, and much more will be written on.