After failing to secure a two-thirds majority in the Lok Sabha, the BJP pivots from legislation to narrative—recasting defeat as a referendum on women’s representation.
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Mohammad Ali is the recipient of the Daniel Pearl Award for Outstanding Reporting on South Asia. He is a Senior Associate Editor at Outlook, based in Delhi. He tweets at @hindureporter
Numbers crunch the NDA’s push as constitutional thresholds put women’s quota Bill in doubt
Experts and opposition leaders say the Centre’s assurances on fair delimitation lack legal backing, raising concerns over representation and federal balance.
Although Parliament passed a constitutional amendment in September 2023 to reserve one-third of the seats for women, its implementation was linked to delimitation and the future Census.
In confronting the United States and Israel, Iran has crafted a politics of resistance that travels far beyond its borders—even as it deepens fractures within the Muslim world.
Miya poetry—once a powerful assertion of identity in Assam’s chars—faces shrinking public space amid political targeting, legal pressure, and growing fear of a backlash among its practitioners.
The real battle is over reparations. Beyond recognition, the UN resolution urges nations involved in the slave trade to engage in reparatory justice, including formal apologies, compensation and measures to address systemic discrimination.
The all-party meeting appeared less like a proactive exercise in democratic consultation and more like a reactive political gesture—an attempt to signal control after the system has already come under strain.
India’s LPG system is efficient in normal times but fragile in crises
The LPG crunch shows how India’s domestic cooking fuel is tied to the geopolitics of a distant but critical waterway. Unless India widens its supplier base and strengthens its domestic infrastructure, the country may find itself confronting similar crises each time tensions flare in the Gulf.
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