Parliament

Oppose and Be Damned

Amita Shah

Lok Sabha has passed 12 Bills in the Monsoon Session despite the Opposition’s persistent disruptions

Decoding the Divide

TCA Raghavan

A historian’s answer to the demographic imbalance

Power and Punishment

Rajeev Deshpande

Bills to ensure arrested leaders quit office were a late strike by Home Minister Amit Shah near the end of Parliament’s Monsoon Session that caught the Opposition off guard

Footnote in Political Life

Swapan Dasgupta

It is not very often that relations between India and another country gets the attention of Parliament

Opposition sticks to SIR, but some feel Trump tariffs needs priority

Rajeev Deshpande

The INDIA bloc seems likely to stay with the SIR issue as per views emerging from discussions among parties on Thursday

Abusing the Judicial Review Process

Siddharth Singh

The danger here is that judicial interventions in the legislative and executive domains will only breed lawlessness instead of fortifying the rule of law

BJP allies redefine “secular” politics with Waqf vote

Rajeev Deshpande

TDP and JD(U) dash Opposition hopes, Hindutva charge no longer stings

Vaishnaw Vs Shouters

Rajeev Deshpande

Vaishnaw had taken pains to emphasise that contrary to claims by Opposition MPs from Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Kerala, there was no stepmotherly treatment of these states