Rajesh Singh

Contributions

January 16, 2020 Rajesh Singh

All eyes are on the pronouncement of the nine-judge Bench of the Supreme Court on the Sabarimala issue. The matter is to be heard soon and it is likely that the court will engage itself with the case in a manner that the dispute ends at the earliest....

Keywords : Governance and Political Studies, Commentary, Supreme Court, Articles 14, 25 & 26, Sabrimala Issue

Right to Information Act: Its use and misuse

January 10, 2020 Rajesh Singh

Chief Justice of India SA Bobde cautioned last month against the abuse of the Right to Information Act, setting off a chain of indignant reactions from a variety of activists. “There is paralysis and fear about this Act”, he stated, adding that �...

Keywords : Governance and Political Studies, Article, RTI, CIC, CJI, Article 19, misuse of RTI

वर्तमान संदर्भ में नागरिकता संबंधी संवैधानिक प्रावधान

January 03, 2020 Rajesh Singh

नागरिकता (संशोधन) अधिनियम, 2019 पर देश में तीखी बहस चल रही है। देश के कई हिस्सों में विरोध शुरू हो गए ...

Keywords : Governance and Political Studies, Hindi, Article, NRC, CAB, CAA, नागरिकता (संशोधन) अधिनियम

Understanding the Constitutional Provisions on Citizenship in the Current Context

December 24, 2019 Rajesh Singh

A furious debate is on in the country over the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019. Protests erupted in parts of the country and, unfortunately, some of them turned violent. Lives were lost and public and private property damaged. But there have also b...

Keywords : Ilegal Immigration, Governance and Political Studies, Article, Supreme Court, Article 14, Citizenship Amendment Act, Articles 5-11, Constituent Assembly

Renewable Energy is the Way Forward

December 19, 2019 Rajesh Singh

In a span of just seven days recently, two varying bits of information emerged on the climate change front for India. The first is that India lost 2,018 lives in 2018 due to the fallout of this crisis. And the second is that the country entered the l...

Keywords : National Security and Strategic Studies, Governance and Political Studies, Climate Change, Article, Climate change and India, looming climatic disaster, Resort to renewable energy

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Book Reviews

Remnants of a Separation: A History of the Partition through Material Memory, Aanchal Malhotra, Harper Collins Publishers, India, Pages 400, Price Rs 799/-.

November 13, 2017 Rajesh Singh

It was Elie Wiesel who had said, “Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilisation, no society, no future.” The Holocaust survivor would know, as would those in India and Pakistan who went through the trauma of ...

Keywords : Book Reviews

Half Lion: How PV Narasimha Rao Transformed India; Vinay Sitapati; Penguin Viking Books

July 28, 2016 Rajesh Singh

When Pamulaparti Venkata Narasimha Rao became the country’s Prime Minister, he came with few expectations. His track record as Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh (then undivided) and many years later as Union Cabinet Minister was mediocre. The party ...

Keywords : Book Reviews

Outreach

Scarcity of diplomats at Centre affects India's global outreach

January 28, 2019 Rajesh Singh

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