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The first thing that hits you is the cold. Not the polite, air-conditioned chill of a Mumbai premiere, but the real, lung-filling cold of Darjeeling at 6,800 feet. I stood…
Fourteen years after its creation, the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration remains one of India’s more curious experiments in regional autonomy — a body designed to give the Gorkha hill communities of…
We the people of India had been given a largely liberal Constitution at the birth of the Indian republic on 26 January 1950. Over the years, this Constitution has turned…
Before we start to analyse the concept of state autonomy, it is imperative that we, first understand what the concept of a ‘ state’ means and its relevance. We also…
In a period of widespread discontent and chaos, a period of the increasing clamour for Autonomy and separate states, a period of the waking of the political consciousness and aspiration…
As we approach the 64thIndependence Day, my thoughts yet again drift towards the state of our union, and the way towards a more perfect one. In the past year a…
Over the years India has steadily wavered towards cynicism bordering on apathy. The idealistic nostalgia of the pre Independence era has all but faded away. Not much progress seems to…
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