Rajeev Dhavan

Treat it as a Valentine's message to the people of India.

The Modi-Shah combine is handling the CAA movement with a rigid unflinching strategy to not give in when good sense should have prevailed.

The people's protest is a movement to save India's soul. It is the Indian spring in winter.

The Maha Vikas Aghadi coalition between the Shiv Sena, NCP and the Congress is a learning experience for a future politics of reconciliation and hope.

The party does not have a clear majority in most of the states it claims to rule.

Indian democracy must consider whether the offence of sedition itself must be abolished.

The PM’s advice to the President has to be in the public domain as it represents the exercise of constitutional power.

There has been an overt conversion of the post of the governor into a totally political one.

Narendra Modi and Amit Shah are going against the very Constitution they had sworn to protect.

India is claiming a victory at the ICJ in the Kulbhushan Jadhav case. So is Pakistan. Here are some facts that both sides need to pay attention to.

Yogi Adityanath declared 17 OBC communities to be treated as Scheduled Castes. Didn't he know that only Parliament has this power?

Is rainy England the right place for the game to be played? From teams getting one point each and upsetting the points table to un-resumed games and Duckworth-Lewis – a partially played World Cup is not a World Cup.

Forcing a language on a particular part of a nation as diverse as India, goes against the fundamental rights that our Constitution grants to every citizen.

The key to the Nehru era is its goodness and the love which his countrymen returned to him in abundant measure.

Indian society must operate its activist strength on a continuing basis. The election results portray the electoral strength of the people.

The 2019 election destroyed democratic discourse. Modi set the tone, Opposition parties respond in kind.

An important issue remains: Should journalists be forced to disclose their sources?

India has not gratuitously used force but has been restrained and, now, exercised its right to self-defence.

The Triple Talaq Bill cannot be an exercise to punish one community. But that, observers find, is what it appears as.

Law is great, but politics seems greater.

For Indians, 2019 has to be the year of resistance to what India has become and to fight for justice at all levels.

These elections were low on quality. The Congress thrived on state-level personality cults, not strategies.

Presently, Indian society is strife with provocative communalism projected generally and in elections. Civil society, with all its contradictions, has to stop this.

We execute the poor. The rich get off.

One lakh RSS, One lakh VHP, 500 sainiks — this is coercive and intimidatory.

Will there be a second referendum? PM May says 'no'. Others are not sure.

The claim that this emanates from the Supreme Court judgment of August 2017 is fallacious. The majority in the Supreme Court never demanded legislation.

The Supreme Court has become a protector of the Rule of law. But how far and to what extent can it go?

Given the timing of the declaration, it has electoral implications for the election in states and of course the Union elections to Parliament in 2019.

Was the Aadhaar Act passed as a money bill a fraud on the Constitution? Justice Chandrachud rightly says it is.