India’s armed forces are losing their political neutrality – putting national security at risk

Military leaders and politicians must act quickly to stem the slide.

Sanjiv Krishan Sood

· 9 hours ago

The Daily Fix: Why the coalition failed in Uttar Pradesh and nine other election reads

Ten must-read pieces on the Lok Sabha elections across newspapers.

Scroll Staff

· Yesterday · 09:41 am

Does the BJP’s massive victory prove that liberalism is dead in India?

Liberals fear that India will never be the same again. But have we really become more communal, casteist, bigoted and chauvinistic in the last five years?

Sanjay Srivastava

· Yesterday · 08:00 am

Elections 2019 are a cause for celebration – and worry

Roots of India’s democracy are strong but threatened by virtual communities tilting political discourse in favour of majoritarian nationalism.

Girish Shahane

· May 23, 2019 · 08:00 am

What is a Pakistani Muslim writer (not) supposed to write about?

Many feel writing in English from Pakistan should be about Islamist extremism, violence against women or the polarisation of the society.

Haroon Khalid

· May 22, 2019 · 08:00 am

The Daily Fix: If India cares for the Constitution, probing torture allegations in Kashmir is vital

Protection against torture is an aspect of the fundamental right to life.

Sruthisagar Yamunan

· May 21, 2019 · 10:10 am

What the Crime Records Bureau’s data says about conditions in India’s prisons (and what it doesn’t)

Prison Statistics India 2016, published in April after a long, unexplained delay, omits details about caste and religious identities of the prison population.

Nishant Gokhale

· May 21, 2019 · 08:00 am

Regardless of the election result, India’s future has been decided

Repairing the damage to democracy depends on a new government rolling back the now rampant misuse of law and technology. That is an unlikely prospect.

Samar Halarnkar

· May 19, 2019 · 08:00 am

Missing Vidyasagar again: The 19th-century reformer deserves better than brickbats and hollow praise

We must take the time to learn more about the influential – if complicated – figure.

Brian A Hatcher

· May 18, 2019 · 08:00 am

Indefinite statelessness? Why the Supreme Court order on Assam detention centres falls short

Those declared foreigners by tribunals and imprisoned for more than three years may be released. But that does not restore the rights of citizenship to them.

Ipsita Chakravarty

· May 16, 2019 · 12:30 pm

Only one person stands between the world and a catastrophic war in Persian Gulf – Donald Trump

European Union and other multilateral organisations have utterly failed to prevent the American aggression against Iran.

Girish Shahane

· May 16, 2019 · 08:00 am

Any regulation of online speech in India must safeguard the rights to free speech and privacy

The law should also enable a quick take-down of content determined as illegal by the judiciary or appropriate government agencies.

SFLC.in

· May 15, 2019 · 06:30 pm