2024

The Aadhaar Act disallows an individual access to the biometric information that forms the core of his or her Unique ID (Aadhaar). The lack of access is problematic for the following reasons: First, verification of whether the biometrics have been recorded correctly or not in the first place is not possible. This becomes critical when that same information forms the basis of identity and is the basis of authentication and subsequent access to welfare benefits and other services. Second, (…)

October 20, 2024
by Rajan Philips
One by one the lights go out. In a span of seven months, Sri Lanka

25th October, 2024
The annual summit of the BRICS member nations was held in Kazan, Russia, from 22-24th of October. An analysis of the summit and its official communique is very much in order. Before doing so, let me present a bird

26 October 2024
Since the 2021 coup, Myanmar has faced a multi-dimensional crisis marked by economic decline, mass displacement and human rights abuses under military rule. In 2024, the military junta introduced forced conscription, targeting men and women of working age, which has prompted a mass exodus, particularly to Thailand. The forced enlistment has worsened the country

October 29, 2024
The Israeli parliament

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Press Statement
28th October 2024
The Editors Guild of India has noted with concern the registration of a second FIR against Mr. Mahesh Langa, a senior assistant editor for The Hindu in Gujarat, for allegedly possessing some ’confidential documents

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Punishing Putin: Inside the Global Economic War to Bring down Russia
by Stephanie Baker
Mudlark
Pages: xiv + 351; Price: Rs 699
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When Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, it heralded the largest land war in Europe since World War II. But there was no way the West was going to go for a direct military confrontation with a country with more nuclear warheads than any other. That would have been (…)

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Those Who Stayed, The Sikhs of Kashmir by Bupinder Singh Bali
Manjul Publishing House Pvt Ltd 2024, 308 pages ISBN-10 ? : ? 9355436297 ISBN-13 ? : ? 978-9355436290
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Those Who Stayed, The Sikhs of Kashmir by Bupinder Singh Bali is a poignant narrative on the Sikhs of Kashmir. In this deeply personal saga, he interweaved their past, present and future which stared at deep abyss of uncertainty. In mainstream media and (…)

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Last week, a major diplomatic row erupted between India and Canada, with tit-for-tat expulsions of senior diplomats by the two countries (reminding the world of what used to happen between India and Pakistan). Trouble had been brewing over the past year ever since the Canadians pointed fingers in September 2023 at the involvement of Indian officials in a targeted killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a pro-Khalistani activist living in Canada. Indian officials and the media have openly accused (…)