‘Justice Hari Shankar’s defence of the marital rape exception upholds rape culture’

The judge who endorsed the exception that protects men from prosecution has mocked a married woman’s experience of being raped, says feminist Kavita Krishnan.

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· Yesterday · 03:00 pm

Explained: What is happening in Sri Lanka?

There is no viable solution involving the current president, an interim government under him will lack legitimacy, says constitutional expert Gehan Gunatilleke.

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· May 11, 2022 · 03:00 pm

Heatwave: Experts’ forecasts of extreme weather if emissions aren’t curtailed are now playing out

The developed world has put very little on the table, not enough to stop catastrophic global warming, says environment journalist Bahar Dutt.

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· May 06, 2022 · 07:30 am

‘Government’s focus on skilling, start-ups, to tackle unemployment, is like applying a Band-Aid’

The country needs aggressive investments, without which we will make little progress, says Mahesh Vyas, CEO of the Centre For Monitoring Indian Economy.

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· Apr 29, 2022 · 06:30 pm

‘This isn’t about encroachments – it’s about humiliating and economically harming a community’

Wide range of civil remedies available, demolition isn’t the first resort to deal with encroachments, say lawyers Nikita Sonavane and Mrinalini Ravindranath.

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· Apr 21, 2022 · 06:30 pm

‘The police is as crucial as violent mobs in creating the dehumanised Muslim’: Author Josy Joseph

Is the police complicit in cases of communal violence?

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· Apr 14, 2022 · 03:46 pm

‘Calls for economic boycott of Muslims shred Karnataka’s very fabric’: Journalist Samar Halarnkar

‘None of these campaigns would get the traction they have if there wasn’t a receptive audience.’

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· Apr 02, 2022 · 02:58 pm

“It is pragmatic, morally defensible for India to buy crude oil from Russia at a ‘discounted’ price”

It is the same energy security imperative that drove Europe’s decision to continue buying crude from Russia, says Vikram Mehta, former chairman, Shell India.

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· Mar 25, 2022 · 07:30 am

Podcast: Have Mandal parties been marginalised by the BJP?

Post poll data from Uttar Pradesh shows that while the BJP consolidated its upper caste base, the party saw an increase of 4% vote share among other OBCs.

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· Mar 18, 2022 · 07:30 am

‘Russia is not North Korea or Iran. Implications of sanctions on global economy won’t be marginal’

Sanctions will deliver a crippling blow to Russia, will have a chilling effect, says Ambassador Mohan Kumar, former India lead negotiator at the WTO.

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· Mar 09, 2022 · 09:00 am

Ukraine crisis: ‘India needs Russia to prevent the rise of a belligerent, hegemonic China’

New Delhi’s position is not solely influenced by its reliance on Russian arms, says Nandan Unnikrishnan, Eurasia expert at the Observer Research Foundation.

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· Mar 04, 2022 · 06:30 am

31 children died by suicide every day in the first year of the pandemic. Nobody is talking about it.

A new book, Life Interrupted, hopes to break the silence around the suicide crisis. It urges policymakers to look beyond mental health interventions.

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· Feb 25, 2022 · 07:30 am