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Indian Judiciary as Development Constraint: Rhetoric vs. Reality | Nayakara Veeresha

Nayakara Veeresha — 2025-12-21T05:44:50Z

Abstract
The functioning of democracy depends upon the harmonious coordination of all the three organs of the state namely Legislature, Executive and Judiciary. The observations made by the PM-EAC member on the lines of economic factors alone is inadequate to enthuse the judiciary to reform from within as the key to legal reforms lie in the hands of legislature and executive. The economic rhetoric of under performance of the judiciary failed to see the political reality of the state within (…)

- 2025

Draft UGC Regulations, 2025: Whither Cooperative Federalism? |

Nayakara Veeresha — 2025-05-24T02:43:51Z

Abstract
The UGC Draft Regulations, 2025 seek to supersede the existing UGC 2018 Rules for the Minimum Qualifications for Appointment and Promotion of Teachers and Academic Staff in Universities and Colleges. The 2025 Draft fails to explain or to provide the reasons for bringing up the new regulations. This has given rise to many doubts and apprehensions among the academia about the intent and motivation behind the new draft regulations. Most significantly it widened the trust deficit (…)

- 2025

Electoral Verdict of Karnataka: Disapproval of UP Model of Governance | Nayakara Veeresha

Nayakara Veeresha — 2023-06-02T16:03:29Z

by Nayakara Veeresha *
The electoral verdict of the Karnataka assembly elections is out and the Indian National Congress has returned to power by winning 135 out of 224 constituencies. The analysis so far in the discourse has highlighted that strong anti-incumbency towards the outgoing BJP government is one of the key factors for the decisive victory. Other reasons cited are (i) failure to provide clean administration due to corruption (ii) price rise (iii) five guarantees of the Congress (…)

- 2023

Bharat Jodo Yatra (BJY): An apolitical perspective | Nayakara Veeresha

Nayakara Veeresha — 2022-12-02T17:07:21Z

by Nayakara Veeresha *
The 7th September, 2022 is one of the watershed moments in the country. The Indian National Congress (INC, hereafter Congress) Party's former President Rahul Gandhi has begun the Bharat Jodo Yatra (BJY, Unite India Pilgrimage/March) from the historic Kanniyakumari of Tamil Nadu. The Kanniyakumari district has a special place in the history and civilisation of our country. It is the same place where Swami Vivekananda has meditated on the future of India in 1892 after (…)

- 2022

BJP's Electoral Ascendancy: Politics of Populism | Nayakara Veeresha

Nayakara Veeresha — 2022-04-08T20:43:09Z

by Nayakara Veeresha *
Abstract
The Bharatiya Janata Party (hereafter BJP) has returned to power in the recently concluded assembly elections in four out of five states. The political analysts and the post poll surveys have indicated that the BJP's electoral mandate was given for the development, governance and welfare. No doubt, the policies of social welfare and target based programmes of the BJP have played a key role in grabbing the voter's attention; however the point of concern (…)

- 2022

Diluting Labour Laws: Expansion of Neo-liberal Governance Regime

Nayakara Veeresha — 2020-05-30T16:49:59Z

by Nayakara Veeresha
27.05.2020
Keywords: Alienation, Governance, Labour, Rights and Law
The novel corona virus (Covid-19) has affected the economy severely apart from the health crisis resulting in growth slowdown of major sectors. The agriculture, automobile, hotel, travel and tourism, manufacturing and services sectors are at the receiving end where in the production process has stagnated and curtailed the delivery of essential and non-essential goods. The national lockdown in India (…)

- 2020

Agrarian Unrest, Insurrection and CPI (Maoist) Party Programme in India: A Critique

Nayakara Veeresha — 2019-06-17T06:21:13Z

by Nayakara Veeresha
Introduction and Context
India witnessed massive farmers' protests and rallies all over the country since the last two years. On November 29-30, 2018 tens of thousands of farmers had gathered in the Capital city of Delhi and demanded from the government a special session of Parliament to discuss the agrarian issues. This is a timely and just demand in the wake of an unprecedented and acute farming crisis. It reflects not only the failure of the government, but also (…)

- 2019

Social Justice in India: An Adivasi Perspective

Nayakara Veeresha — 2019-05-18T21:55:45Z

by Nayakara Veeresha
February 20 is observed every year since 2009 by the United Nations as the “World Day of Social Justice (WDSJ)”. The purpose is to take stock of the plight of injustice across the globe and to push for tenable solutions in mitigating the same. It recognises the need to alleviate the levels of poverty, social exclusion, of reducing unemployment, addressing gender inequality, promoting effective participation in decision-making and access to opportunities and justice for (…)

- 2019

Indian Republic @ 70: Democracy at Crossroads

Nayakara Veeresha — 2019-03-31T10:26:05Z

by Nayakara Veeresha
The decline in global peace has largely been driven by changes in measures related to safety and security. (Global Peace Index, 2014) The Fragile States Index 2018 indicated that internal and external pressures affect the world's richest and most developed nations too. Accordingly, Qatar, Spain, the United States of America and United Kingdom experienced social and political instabilities in the year 2017. The Economist Intelligence Unit's Democracy Index (EIUDI), 2017 (…)

- 2019

Revolution or Insurrection: An Analysis of Governance Conflict in Central India

Nayakara Veeresha — 2018-05-05T16:41:22Z

by Nayakara Veeresha
“When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensable of duties” —Marquis de Lafayette
India as a republic completed 68 years of parliamentary democracy. In the year 2017 was observed the hundredth anniversary of the revolution in Russia. It is one of the important historical events in modern political upheavals. Under the leadership of Vladimir (…)

- 2018