India's political parties
A study of democracy is incomplete without a study of one of its most fundamental components—political parties. In India, works on the country’s political parties so far have explored, among other things,
Political Parties
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What Anna Hazare’s movement and India’s new middle classes say about each other
<p> Anna Hazare’s hunger strike against corruption in April 2011 attracted disparate intellectual strands from within the Indian middle class. These strands brought complementary skills to the
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A demagogue, the state and civil society
<p>A demagogue is able to make New Delhi panic and shoot itself in the foot. (Editorial)</p> <p> </p>
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Amended land acquisition policy: BSP
The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) said that Opposition's criticism of the newly-amended land acquisition policy was uncalled for and showed the anti-farmer mind set of these parties. In a statement released here on Friday, the party's spokesman said that the BSP government had taken an initiative to solve this perennial problem of farmers but instead of commending it, the Opposition parties had cri
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Lokpal alone cannot stop corruption'
PUBLIC interest lawyer Prashant Bhushan was nominated by Anna Hazare as one of the five civil society members to the 10-member committee constituted by the Central government to draft the new Lokpal Bill
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The brooms are out in Delhi now
<p>In recent months, the BJP-dominated Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) and the Congress-led Delhi government have been outdoing each other in floating proposals and schemes for better governance. The MCD is in the throes of implementing a new Residents' Welfare Committee (RWC) scheme.
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India's education policy: From national to commercial
<p>Post independence, India’s leaders, particularly Abul Kalam Azad, advocated an education policy that would be liberal and humanitarian, and set the nation on the path of progress and prosperity. This path was neither a full continuation of the colonial modern nor a restoration of the feudal-traditional.
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Questioning borders: Social movements, political parties and the creation of new states in India
As the world’s largest multi-ethnic democracy, India has a federal constitution that is well-equipped with administrative devices that offer apparent recognition and measures of self-governance to territorially
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Roadmap for the Panchayati Raj (2011-16): an all India perspective
<p>This document discusses the status of Panchayats and approach to roadmap, strengthening democratic functioning of the Panchayats, functions of the Panchayats, functionaries of the Panchayats, Panchayat finances and accounting, e-Panchayat, Panchayat (Extension to Scheduled areas) Act, decentralized governance in the north east states, legal framework & the road ahead.</p>
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Breeding black sheep
Whenever accusations of corruption are made and found to be true, members of the fraternity of the accused rush to defend them by saying that these are a few of the
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AIADMK cadre condemn indiscriminate sand mining
TIRUCHI: A large number of All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) cadre, including women, participated in a day long fast in Thottiam town on Thursday to condemn the indiscriminate sand mining by Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) members. The fast was also to condemn the frequent traffic jams and accidents caused by the large number of lorries used for the transportation of the sand fr