Emergency

Freedom House, V-DEM, Economist: The racket to downgrade India’s democracy

Panchmukha - September 14, 2022

Indian democracy is under siege. As India celebrates 75 years as an independent country, major international democracy rankings suggest that Indian democracy is in...

Fallible Judges: What Nehru and Ambedkar had once said

Saket Suryesh - July 8, 2022

No Supreme Court and no judiciary can stand in judgment over the sovereign will of Parliament. If we go wrong here and there, it...

Protests in Canada: Trudeau invokes Emergency

Newsbred Staff - February 15, 2022

Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau invoked Emergency Act on Sunday to curb the ongoing truckers protest. He said the Act would provide Police additional powers...

Population: Before you question Yogi, answer: Does India have enough water or jobs?

Ashish Shukla - July 11, 2021

It’s such a shame that voices would be raised now that Yogi Adityanath wants to cull the demon of population in Uttar Pradesh. It’s...

The tale of a son-in-law who is on run: A life best told in whispers

Veeresh Malik - May 9, 2021

Delhi has been a city of ambitious princeling, son-in-laws and even more ambitious queen mothers and daughters for centuries now. Behind every opium sniffing...

Kapil Dev suffers heart attack; goes through angioplasty; is stable now

Newsbred Staff - October 23, 2020

India’s cricketing legend Kapil Dev is said to be stable after he suffered a heart attack and is said to have gone angioplasty surgery...

How Covid-19 has helped rural economy: And what we Urbans could learn

Veeresh Malik - September 17, 2020

"The gap between the rich and the poor is increasing day by day in India". This is conventional wisdom and probably very true too....

As Bhushan worries on sentence, Lutyens Media gets into overdrive to stop it

Ashish Shukla - August 15, 2020

“For SC, two tweets a bid to shake key pillar of democracy”. This is the headline Indian Express has given on Supreme Court holding...

Only against Indira Gandhi, her numbers didn’t stack up

Bhumika Arora - August 1, 2020

The world is once again remembering the woman of extraordinary skills, who lived her life by her own set of rules and even once...

Be bored but don’t ignore such leeches in your newspapers

Ashish Shukla - July 17, 2018

I might bore you, I am bored myself, but persist we must for the creeps are not giving up. There is no credible criticism...

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