A democracy that treats the bodies of its most vulnerable citizens as a question to be resolved by institutional consensus rather than personal sovereignty has not yet finished writing its constitution.
A single act of dissent costs a seat; a coordinated exit preserves it. The Tenth Schedule’s merger rule reveals a quiet inversion in India’s anti-defection framework.
Our jails are not full because there is too much crime. They are full because we have never seriously asked what punishment is actually supposed to accomplish.
During this pandemic, the sanitation workers are in dire need of equipment for safety purposes and ‘a specific law’ which caters to their needs especially and not one which snatches their existing rights.
There's one group which has not received the requisite attention of either mainstream media or masses in general – the backbone of one of the world’s largest Rail network: the Loco Pilots of Indian Railways.
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