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A Surya Prakash is a Senior Fellow at the Vivekananda International Foundation. He specialises in constitutional and parliamentary affairs. He is also the author of ‘What Ails Indian Parliament’ (HarperCollins, 1995).
Lessons from Shaheen Bagh
The Supreme Court judgment on the petitions pertaining to the three-month anti-CAA protests will restore some order in the way we express dissent The recent judgement of the Supreme Court on the petitions pertaining to the three-month protests, held in Shaheen Bagh in South Delhi earlier this year, should clear the...
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Don’t test our patience
06 October 2020 | A Surya Prakash -
Mumbai belongs to India
22 September 2020 | A Surya Prakash -
Don’t silence sanity
08 September 2020 | A Surya Prakash -
Netaji and the Raj
25 August 2020 | A Surya Prakash -
Nepotism everywhere
28 July 2020 | A Surya Prakash -
New normal with China
14 July 2020 | A Surya Prakash -
Ghosts from the past
30 June 2020 | A Surya Prakash
Stormy amendments
There is much debate on the misuse of the sedition law these days but what is not known is that Nehru’s First Amendment wanted to curb freedom of speech The Indian Constitution has been amended 104 times and many of the modifications, including the ones passed by Parliament during the dreaded...
Perception matters
For the masses, Modi’s intentions still seem unquestionable and successes are many. Nobody is infallible and he has drawn attention to this truth, endearing himself to them As the Narendra Modi Government 2.0 completed its first year in office after his spectacular return to power in the 2019 Lok Sabha election,...
In the spirit of federalism
The Centre’s decision to take charge of the overall operations vis-à -vis COVID-19 is in line with the Constitutional scheme of things. States must cooperate to tide over the Corona crisis It may take some more time for the COVID-19 pandemic to be brought fully under control in our country and...
Spewing venom
Zafarul Islam Khan’s attempt to reach out to the Muslim world is an affront to the core values of our secular Constitution. His comments are detestable and must be contested Even as India is grappling with the monstrous Coronavirus and every organ of the State is doing its best to contain...
Set the record straight
When we are fighting one of the deadliest viruses, nations must act responsibly. It’s time to scrutinise every Western media report that has run down India for its handling of the crisis Novelist and activist Arundhati Roy told Deutsche Welle (DW), Germany’s public broadcaster, recently that the situation in India was...
India’s super spreaders
At a time when the Union and State Governments and institutions are working with the single determination to contain COVID-19, the Tablighi Jammat has turned out to be a spoiler The latest estimates of the Union Health Ministry indicate that over 35 per cent of the COVID-19 cases that are springing...
A ticking time-bomb
Both the Hindu and Muslim communities have to factor in new attitudes that govern them since the old equation has collapsed. A new formula is needed to co-exist peacefully It’s obvious to anyone, who has seen the videos and read the first-hand accounts of residents in the troubled north-east area of...
