Debate on the Issue – A Brief History In India, simultaneous elections to the Lok Sabha (House of The People) and Vidhan Sabhas (State Legislative Assemblies) were organized in the years 1951-52, 1957, 1962 and 1967. Thereafter, however, the schedule could not be maintained and the elections to the Lok [...]

T.S.R. Subramanian Panel on education policy  and Why UGC Act should be allowed to lapse? […]

1957 was an eventful year in Reserve Bank of India’s history. Sir Benegal Rama Rau was the fourth Reserve Bank governor, and till date remains the longest serving head of the institution from 1949 to 1957. […]

Challenge for the modern world is to accept diversity as an existential reality and to configure attitudes and methodologies for dealing with it:- Background :- Vice President’s address at Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco . The Vice president delves deeper  in to what constitutes Islam , then he asks [...]

The right to intervene:- Sitting in his presidential palace in 1991, Iraq’s President Saddam Hussein and his Culture Minister Hamad Hammadi drafted a letter to Mikhail Gorbachev, President of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.). Hussein and Hammadi hoped that the U.S.S.R. would help save Iraq from the West’s [...]

A blow against free speech At the dawn of the 17th century, Englishmen were in the habit of challenging each other to violent duels in order to avenge personal insults. Public disorder was frequent and the authorities decided to step in. To obviate the need for duels, they began to [...]

Imposing an inequality:- In an extraordinary order that reverses the fundamental constitutional guarantee of equal access to justice, the Supreme Court, late last month, directed parties to an ongoing civil litigation to each pay a fixed sum of money to enable them to have their cases heard, and potentially disposed [...]

Should voting be made compulsory ? The best answer is written by Vivek in the comment section of the debate.We have taken his text/analysis and added our view in this regard. Compulsory voting means voter are obliged to cast their votes. If eligible voter do not exercise his/her franchise then [...]

Is it right to do away with caste -based reservation in India ? Is it the right time to do so? This has been the most raging yet profoundly unanswered debate .There has not been a single comprehensive study in this regard and many shy away from this debate.In this [...]

Electoral Reforms Important Recommendations by Election Commission:- Independent Secretariat for the Commission Budget of the Commission to be ‘charged’ as in the case of the Budget of Comptroller and Auditor General of India and the Union Public Service Commission Amendment of law to restore cycle of biennial retirement in Rajya [...]