T K Arun Joe Biden will host a summit for democracy on December 9-10. Prime Minister Narendra Modi would attend; China and Russia have not been invited. But Pakistan is an invitee. The summit provides an occasion to look at…
Harsh V Pant As it balances China’s rise and builds a strategic partnership with the US, India would like to invest in a stable relationship with Russia. Even as India gets ready to participate in the Summit for Democracy convened…
Srikanth Kondapalli While Russia underplayed China’s tests as not violating any international treaty it has signed, it is concerned about losing ground on such technologies. China recently demonstrated an “assassin’s mace” weapon that has the US and Russia worried, for…
Victor Frankenstein’s ‘monster’ was an ugly humanoid but was not meant to be as bad or destructive as circumstances turned him into. So was Plastics when it was invented way back in the nineteenth century. But its indiscriminate and irresponsible use has turned it into a true environmental monster of modern times. No less of pandemic proportions, actually. Let me explain.
Substantive democracy led by ethics and the spirit of the Constitution is a flywheel of governance. After the suspension of 12 Rajya Sabha Members on the first day of Parliament’s winter session for the rest of its session, it is more than obvious that institutions of governance suffer from a culture of democratic deficits. That, Parliament is becoming a platform for reprimanding opposition, bowdlerizing debates, pecking into question hour and using available disciplinary authority in a repressive manner hounds the Constitutional spirit.
Urvashi Prasad , Adhiraj Parthasarathy Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, and Jharkhand continue to have TFRs that are significantly above replacement levels. While the Census, which has a wide coverage, is generally regarded as the official marker of demographic trends in the…