Pandey, S., (2024) “Decision to Return Magsaysay Award and US Degrees on the Role of the US in War in Gaza”, Social Development Issues 46(3): 14. doi: https://doi.org/10.3998/sdi.6778 The Writer is General Secretary of the Socialist Party (India). When I received the Magsaysay Award in 2002, a little controversy was created due to my decision […]
Time Has Come To Deport The VIP From Varanasi
In 2014 the Manmohan Singh government enacted the The StreetVendors (Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Act. There is a provision under this Act that a Town Vending Committee will be constituted, 40% members of which will be vendors themselves. They will carry out a survey and award vending certificates. Until the survey […]
रेमन मैग्सेसे पुरस्कार से सम्मानित डॉ. संदीप पान्डेय का सफरनामा
रेमन मैग्सेसे पुरस्कार से सम्मानित डॉ. संदीप पान्डेय का सफरनामा | CHAI WITH ALOK | THE PEN DOWN
WHY SHOULD THE GOVERNMENT BE INVOLVED IN RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS?
In the majority decision (4-3) in Abhiram Singh v. C.D. Commachen (Dead) By Legal Representatives, the Supreme Court stated that the ethos and secular character of our political system must be taken into consideration during the electoral process. In line with the secular nature of the Indian State, Section 123(3) of the Representation of the […]
What Can the Courts Do When Religion Is Politicised?
Introduction In the tapestry of India’s history, certain events stand as stark reminders of the intersection between religion, politics, and the law. The controversy surrounding the Gyanvapi Mosque, is one such intricate thread woven into the nation’s fabric. To understand the origins of this dispute and its resonance in modern times, we must first retrace […]
New Delhi’s double standards on Naga and Kashmir issues
Why is New Delhi treating Jammu and Kashmir as a shut case while concurrently exploring possibilities with the Naga leadership?
ECI would do well to count 100% VVPAT slips
How, then, was the BJP, facing such tremendous odds, able to pull through? Were Electronic Voting Machines manipulated or did the government machinery help BJP win?
Agnipath: Path of Militarisation of Society?
What will prevent a jingoistic leader to goad the jobless youth trained by Armed forces in their twenties and thirties not mature enough to discern national interest from the interest of ruling dispensation to take up arms for a particular cause?