It was activism of a different sort when some eminent citizens such as actor Aamir Khan, Magsaysay award winners Sandeep Pande and Arvind Kejriwal, social activist Anna Hazare and journalist-author Madhu Trehan wrote to the prime minister last week that former IPS officer Kiran Bedi should be made the chief information commissioner (CIC) of India. [Read more]

A government of India committee thinks land acquisition for mining and industries in the tribal belt of Chhattisgarh is the biggest grab of tribal lands after Columbus

The ‘expert’ committee believes the anti-Naxal movement called Salwa Judum in Chhattisgarh is a prop of business houses, Tatas and Essar. [Read more]

Strange are the ways of the people. There are always explanations for failures and successes in elections, but a lot more remains inexplicable. The results of the three state assembly elections are no different. [Read more]

Of the three states that vote on October 13th, Maharashtra is the most keenly watched. In Haryana, there isn’t much of a contest and Arunchal Pradesh will not affect the national political scene much. [Read more]

Do Maoists, who have declared as their objective the overthrow of the Indian state and its Constitution, have the right to seek protection under the same Constitution? [Read more]