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Monthly Archives: October, 2026

Part I: The vote that can say only one thing

* This is the first in a series on how India elects and governs itself....

He said ‘regime change’

PRASHANT BHUSHAN leaned towards the microphone at the Press Club of India on 15...

The case against the SIR starts from its conclusion 

ON 5 OCTOBER 2026, the Supreme Court declined to suspend the Chief Election Commissioner...

A senior advocate, a smiley and a burning court

Senior Advocates are not, as a rule, given to emojis. So I studied Sanjoy...

Had Smit Machchhar died, the ‘saffron terror’ smear was ready

An Omani co-pilot attacked an Indian captain at 30,000 feet. Wounded, the captain still...

The verses no one will quote about the flydubai attack

So, it’s out in public now that the co-pilot who attacked Captain Smit Machchhar...

When a broken promise becomes a crime

Courts are deciding what India's new false-promise-of-marriage law means, while a challenge to whether it should exist at all has sat unheard for two years.

Gandhi’s ‘Hey Ram’ to Congress’s ‘Rich Ram’

On Monday, Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy of the Congress offered a theology of...

Part II: India for sale

The institution — Ford, Rockefeller and the architecture of development

Stabbed, he still saved the plane. The world’s media called it a brawl.

You must be aware by now of the flydubai flight case. If not: on...