The future of the world rides on how the crisis in Europe plays out. For the war to end, a lot of deals will have to be struck, including one on burying deep the origin of the Coronavirus.
RTI revisions and reforms seem to be the need of the hour. The sixteen-year-old RTI act is bogged by several bottlenecks and calls for immediate intervention.
There is so much more that has happened after the State of Jammu and Kashmir was stripped of its semi-autonomy and rudely bifurcated into two union territories to diminish the political strength of the Kashmir valley.
The issue of fake medical asylum not just affects the case in question but drags the entire investigative and judicial process. This can only be curbed to an extent if the medical boards in such hospitals are scrutinised and held accountable. The doctors must be treated as an accomplice to the crime for derailing the investigation, writes Jayanta Bhattacharya.
The media has the power to hold others accountable, but how often does it hold itself to account? The CJI's recent statements on the Press are a stark reminder of the rot within the Indian media industry, writes Kingshuk Nag.
While there has been some discussion on discriminatory treatment of members of oppressed communities like tribals, Dalits, women, and queer communities, religion is a taboo topic and often not taken into consideration in understanding our biases and such partisanship in healthcare profession is hardly addressed.
Unfortunately, the rise of ethnonationalism is almost always accompanied by majoritarianism, discrimination of minority groups, authoritarianism and violent extremism. And in this, India is no exception.