Bhavdeep Kang

A lack of ideological cohesion and a surfeit of overweening ambition has consistently undermined Opposition unity. Banerjee’s appeal woul...Read More

While China says that the wet market in Wuhan, where the virus is believed to have originated, did not deal in illegal wildlife, reports ...Read More

The very idea that abstractions such as relative freedom can be measured, ie, assigned a numerical value, is problematic. Add to that the...Read More

Indian sensibilities are more attuned to caste than race, or so one might expect. But attitudes to people of African and north-east India...Read More

The dignity and liberty of women formed the substance of a number of important rulings in the last fortnight. The Himachal Pradesh High C...Read More

The Congress leadership’s style of functioning, which precludes decision-making based on robust feedback and intensive discussion (with a...Read More

A pop artiste with 10 crore Twitter followers and a school-going climate change activist have weighed in on India’s farm laws, while Punj...Read More

As India Inc. cheered and the markets soared (to the best post-Budget gains in 20 years), the middle class swung between relief at being ...Read More

Prior to 2019, Congress leaders in Assam, notably three-term chief minister Tarun Gogoi, had opposed any truck with Ajmal. They argued th...Read More

From Day 1, the protesters have resisted a “clause-by-clause” discussion to plug loopholes in the new laws. The appointment of an expert ...Read More

The year 2020 was a watershed in many respects, but politics and politicians remained much the same. At a time when a constructive discou...Read More

The NDA government has displayed no intention of rolling back either the CAA or the agricultural reforms, but by civility of action and s...Read More

A couple of decades ago, the 'grand old party' would have kept the ruling party on its toes, with grassroots mobilisation on issues such ...Read More