Does the anti-defection law serve any purpose? In the Hindu, Srinivasan Ramani discusses the issue with PDT Achary, former Secretary General of the Lok Sabha, and MR Madhavan, president of the PRS Legislative Research.
Given the targeting of Bengalis, both Hindu and Muslim, even pro-Bharatiya Janata Party groups recognise that the National Register of Citizens in Assam could end up condemning many Indians to an appalling fate, notes Sanjoy Hazarika in the Telegraph.
In his new Netflix comedy special, Right Now, Indian-American comic Aziz Ansari excoriates “wokeness” – a cultural phenomenon on the back of which he had built his career, until he he was accused of sexual misconduct in 2018 as part of #MeToo. In the New Yorker, Doreen St Felix finds the contradictions of the show destabilising enough to draw her back in.