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Kapil Sibal

The writer is a Senior Congress leader and former union minister....

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Blog1 month ago
The dismantling of the idea of India
Instead of focusing on the economy, the Modi government has pushed its divisive agenda
Blog2 months ago
Judiciary must speak up, hold government to account on its handling of pandemic
Under our constitutional framework, the executive is answerable even in times of a national crisis: Kapil Sibal
Blog7 months ago
Oppn during UPA years and SC judgments must share responsibility for current economic mess
Government must recognise that fear and enterprise don’t go together. Keep the ED and the CBI at bay and ensure that income tax authorities act within...
Blog10 months ago
What the tax cut will achieve; what it won’t
There are positives. But India needs to do more on education, tech, exports, informal sector and farming
Blog1 year ago
When the State becomes a bully
Ever since his government came to power, our PM has altered, using the enormous power he wields, the nature of the State
Blog2 years ago
Advertising Rulers of law
Today, institutions speak not for the rule of law, but for those who rule, unconcerned with the law.
Blog2 years ago
How to check lynching: The political class must stand unitedly against it, technology must be harnessed
The internet is a technology that empowers. It is also a platform that can disempower. It can build bridges or dismantle them. Through dialogue it can...
Blog2 years ago
Choreography of a break-up
With 2019 round the corner, a polarised J&K will add fuel to the fire, the centrality of the BJP’s communal agenda.
Blog2 years ago
His choice, his misstep
Pranab Mukherjee’s decision to address RSS meet in Nagpur need not perturb the Congress. He did not go there as a representative of the party.
Blog2 years ago
Draw the line for Speakers and Governors
We need to amend the law and forge political consensus to avert subversion of democracy
Blog2 years ago
What a governor must do
Supreme Court must now address itself to protecting the institution from political machinations.
Analysis2 years ago
Modi gets real on China: Wuhan summit demonstrated that a weak economy gives India few cards to deal
The informal summit at Wuhan between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Xi Jinping must be seen in the context of changing global equations. China with...
Blog2 years ago
A dangerous incursion
The government’s opposition to the elevation of the Chief Justice of the Uttarakhand High Court, Justice K.M. Joseph, to the Supreme Court, as recommended by the...
Blog2 years ago
Look, who is talking about diminishing the authority of the judiciary
There is no procedure under the law except through an impeachment motion to remove an errant judge. When all processes are politicised and the media is...
Blog2 years ago
Failing the law
There are two essential elements of a constitutional republic. First, the law and not men are supreme. Second, the sovereignty of each individual expressed through elected...
Blog2 years ago
A scam, the deeper rot
Politician-business-banker nexus makes bank lendings prone to corruption.
Blog2 years ago
A mirage called equality
The clarion call for freedom triumphed on August 15, 1947. What followed in its wake, along the road to transfer of power, were heart-wrenching stories of...
Analysis2 years ago
A cauldron of discontent
Every 18 minutes, a Dalit is attacked in India. However, the conviction rate is only 28 per cent. UP, Rajasthan, Bihar and MP have witnessed a...
Blog2 years ago
A judicious warning
The Chief Justice of India is the Master of the Roster. He must also be accountable
Blog3 years ago
Civil wrong, criminal act: on the triple talaq Bill
The triple talaq Bill smacks of political opportunism
Analysis3 years ago
Driven by a collective cause
The nature of the political discourse has changed radically; those who seek an inclusive India are termed Pakistanis and anti-national.
Blog3 years ago
Conspiracy of circumstances
The CAG earned laurels for the sensational Rs 1.76 lakh crore alleged presumptive loss to the treasury following the 2G spectrum allocations based on the administered...
Analysis3 years ago
Of lies and half-truths
The BJP may have won Gujarat, the home state of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, but deep down, it also knows that it has lost the battle....
Blog3 years ago
Gujarat election results 2017: The political arithmetic has worked but the victory is pyrrhic
The arithmetic of politics has succeeded. The BJP has won, though with a lower tally in Gujarat. Himachal Pradesh has been wrested from the Congress. When...
Blog3 years ago
In the name of faith
People love to hate. But when they think that god is on their side, hatred becomes a matter of faith. That breeds violence. The Thirty Years’...
Blog3 years ago
The Judiciary’s reputation is at stake
Any loss of confidence in the bipartisan nature of court procedures will sully its reputation
Analysis3 years ago
India in the global matrix: We must deepen bilateral relations with Japan and the US
With the dismantling of trade barriers and the exponential increase of cross-border economic activity, the nature of the global economy has changed. This reality has necessitated...
Blog3 years ago
Crime and callousness
Justice, in all its manifestations, is essential if the culture of democracy is to flourish. Unbiased investigations are essential to delivering justice to the victims of...
Blog3 years ago
Rethinking World Bank ranking
India has a long way to go. It would be in the fitness of things for the government to lay out a roadmap for businesses at...
Blog3 years ago
India story has been derailed: Remember ‘minimum government, maximum governance’?
Prime Minister Narendra Modi promised us a New India: sans corruption, business friendly, with a resurgent rupee, a great power that is recognised globally. His motto,...
Blog3 years ago
Defamation, not at the cost of gagging free speech
The curtailment of an individual writer or author’s freedom of speech and expression should never be lightly viewed. Any person who feels that his good name...
Analysis3 years ago
How the future was compromised
NPA crisis was accentuated by court judgments cancelling telecom licences and coal block allocations. An overzealous CAG, bloodthirsty media, myopic Opposition hurt India’s progress Presumptive loss...
Blog3 years ago
A new vision for a new India
While a political party may draw inspiration from the past, it must live in the present
Analysis3 years ago
What statistics don’t tell
NDA government promised to transform India in 60 months. Forty months down the road, the future looks bleak and bluffing through the jugglery of numbers continues....
Analysis3 years ago
In the corridors of justice
New Delhi 9th Oct 2017, : If transfers by the Collegium are made in a non-transparent fashion, even unanimously, people will speculate Under our constitutional scheme,...
Analysis3 years ago
Navigate Kashmir’s choppy waters: Without a coherent Kashmir strategy, the only option left is security forces versus the rest
October 9, New Delhi, 2017: To navigate choppy waters requires courage. The navigator must be astute enough to recognise the strength of the undercurrent. In Jammu &...
Analysis3 years ago
Anatomy of a decline
The PM in attempting to usher in the era of a cashless society, has rendered poor people cashless.
Analysis3 years ago
In the shoes of the Governor
Recent experience shows that Governors in the country have been errant in upholding constitutional values.
Blog3 years ago
Tech’s morality-neutral nature: In the wrong hands, technology can cause untold damage, writes Kapil Sibal
The State insists on sharing our Aadhaar with various government departments, to be stored and used as and when necessary. Though it helps streamline our activities,...
Blog3 years ago
Rule of the ugly Indian
The steady rise of the ugly Indian since 2014 has gained traction. The organs of the body politic have begun to atrophy. State-craft based on media...
Analysis3 years ago
Bit tragedy, empty rhetoric
To prevent more Gorakhpurs, shake off the apathy and fix India’s broken public healthcare
India3 years ago
The triple talaq conundrum: Politics of religion & religion of politics must be segregated
New Delhi, Sep 1, 2017: The process of societal reform embedded in age-old practices is slow and painful. Martin Luther tried to reform the Catholic Church...
Blog3 years ago
Fake news: The facts of fiction
With mobile phones in the hands of 900 million, the power of fake news has the potential to deliver outcomes based on fiction, not facts.
Blog3 years ago
My India Has Changed
It is under a regime that thrives on instilling fear, suppressing dissent
Blog3 years ago
In the preserves of privacy, writes Kapil Sibal
Privacy must be recognised as a constitutional right for it to be enforced, but its exercise is subject to legitimate and compelling State interest
Blog3 years ago
Five essential elements to keep democracy alive and kicking in India
What India needs is an objective media, independent judiciary, investigation agencies that inspire confidence, honest bureaucrats, and, a robust economy backed by sound banking practises.
Blog3 years ago
A hollow symbolism
BJP projects itself as pro-Dalit by making Ram Nath Kovind its presidential candidate. It won’t work
Blog3 years ago
Muzzling freedom of expression
Unless a trade is prohibited by law or taken over by the state, restrictions of the kind imposed by the rules regarding sale of cattle are...
Blog3 years ago
All about winning
Politics must be muscular, majoritarian with a no-holds-barred campaign to invade the minds of citizens, embedding in them the mirage of change for the better.
Blog3 years ago
Modinomics rings hollow: Look beneath government hype, and signs of deep economic distress are evident
Three years of drought, that is the state of the nation. The monsoon of hope is a long way away. Yet the dream has not soured;...
Blog3 years ago
Beyond triple talaq
The central issue, therefore, is not the finality and the manner in which women are divorced, but the inability of both law and society to protect...
India3 years ago
Don’t pressure people to be patriots
Respect for the flag and standing up for the anthem should be driven by emotion, not law.
India3 years ago
Circumspection, My Lords
With the power of judicial review, the expanse of our Supreme Court’s jurisdiction is unmatched compared to other judicial forums around the world. The greater the...
Blog3 years ago
A non-reformist Budget
This government is high on rhetoric, short on facts.

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