Why India’s registry of sex offenders may do more harm than good

It goes against the right to privacy and the presumption of innocence, and ignores the sorry state of the country’s criminal justice system.

Vrinda Bhandari

· Yesterday · 07:30 pm

The TM Krishna column: Activists’ arrests show TV channels are turning India into a khap panchayat

They are criminalising advocacy for marginalised citizens and our castiest feudal society is sharing in this ugliness overtly or through passive affirmation.

TM Krishna

· Yesterday · 08:00 am

Civil offence for Hindus, crime for Muslims: The triple talaq ordinance is plainly discriminatory

Deserting one’s wife without a valid divorce is now a criminal offence for Muslim men but a civil offence for men of other communities. The ordinance must go.

Kavita Krishnan

· Sep 24, 2018 · 08:00 am

The problem with Narendra Modi’s Pakistan policy is not ideology – but hubris and incompetence

His party claimed to be different from the effete government led by the Congress and its foreign policy therefore needs to be held to a higher standard.

Manoj Joshi

· Sep 22, 2018 · 04:45 pm

Opinion: Why the UGC's ‘Surgical Strike Day’ circular must be rejected

The most compelling reason is that it is beyond the mandate of the University Grants Commission.

Apoorvanand

· Sep 22, 2018 · 09:55 am

Bombay High Court’s ‘Dalit’ ruling has come in handy for the politics of Hindutva

It also reflects the community’s loss of ideological cohesion.

Anand Teltumbde

· Sep 18, 2018 · 08:00 am

Three important possibilities the section 377 verdict offers for expansion of civil rights in India

The judgement decriminalising homosexuality is only the foundation stone. The future development of the law is now in the hands of the courts.

Gautam Bhatia

· Sep 15, 2018 · 08:00 am

Parking is not a right: Indian cities need to rethink how they use public spaces

By allowing free parking on roads, this country is using public resources to subsidise vehicle owners even as its poor are cramped in slums.

Rutul Joshi

· Sep 14, 2018 · 08:00 am

Kerala rape case speaks of unequal power equation between bishops, nuns in Catholic Church in India

On Saturday, nuns protested in Kochi against the delay in police action against the rape-accused bishop.

Virginia Saldanha

· Sep 11, 2018 · 06:10 pm

Gautam Navlakha has always been a principled dissenter. It’s a shame he’s being punished for it

It is difficult to witness the Indian state bring down the full force of its might on a person with so much commitment to so many interests.

C Rammanohar Reddy

· Sep 11, 2018 · 08:00 am

Persistence: The one lesson the disability rights movement in India can offer to the LGBT movement

The battle has just begun. But cause by cause, case by case, change will happen.

Nipun Malhotra

· Sep 10, 2018 · 08:00 am

Could the contents of your bookshelf get you arrested? This is not an unrealistic question anymore

Why do you read the works of Leftist thinkers, activists were asked when being arrested.

Sayantan Ghosh

· Sep 09, 2018 · 05:30 pm