A progressive, empathetic and, above all, compassionate vision for India is what is required. The Congress manifesto hits the right notes.

A historical meeting between Lohia, who was able to fire up the imaginations of OBC leaders, and Dalit icon Ambedkar that couldn't happen could have changed the political landscape in India.

This is a small step towards sanity, but a badly needed one.

The majesty of the law lies in its uniform application to everybody.

Anybody who has been involved with politics at any level in India knows that a simplistic analysis of voter behaviour – while it may make for attractive headlines – is inherently inaccurate.

Accountability is not only about punishing those who have committed illegalities, it is also about ensuring that those who do follow the rules and an ethical code of conduct are rewarded.

A political attack that worked five years ago will not necessarily work again. Like any successful show, the audience will get tired of the same old tropes utilised by the BJP.

Because of the march, Congress workers are more energised than they have been in the last eight years and there is a clear template to move forward.

The government giving a political twist to the ruling betrays anxiety about the desirability of the demonetisation exercise in 2016.

International standards already exist and the government should waste no time in adopting them.

Union law minister Kiren Rijiju has raised a valid question about judicial interference in matters of the executive. But he has addressed it incorrectly.

This is not about the racist minority who have a problem with black actors, but a much larger number of Tolkien fans who do not find the series living up to the standards that they expected.

The physical element of politics cannot be underrated. Some words of encouragement, a couple of acts of kindness and a few words of conversation, often change the mind of a hitherto hostile voter.

It is mainly the BJP’s propaganda that fuels its perception of invincibility. For a party with a majority of around 30 MPs in the Lok Sabha, there is no inevitability of success.

In a system like ours, where the average person approaching the average police station does so without any great hope for justice, it is due process which is the most urgent need to protect life and liberty.

The decision by Twitter to move court against the government opens up the possibility of a new phase in India’s ongoing battle for the protection of civil liberties, where corporates take up the cudgels.

'Should law follow social change? Or should change come first?'

While the reform of laws for the cause of gender justice is welcome, the proposed new civil code can't be another avenue to further communal agenda and narrowly focus on personal laws.

The problem with the Congress is not a lack of resources, manpower or a vote base but that the party's leadership does not know what to do with them.