The accolades that opportunistic politicians of the current times shower on Rayanna and the manner is which they choose to honour this great leader is appalling.

A closer analysis of key Supreme Court judgements indicates the dangerous emergence of a majoritarian jurisprudence in direct proportion with the majoritarian polity ruling the country.  

Since the assembly election results, many have pointed out that the vote share of the Congress has been intact despite its defeats. What they miss is the steep fall in the traditional Hindu vote base of the Congress is compensated by an increase in its Muslim vote share.

Yadav had written that 'BJP's victory is not so big, and Congress fall is not so deep'. Such a view is nothing but a false comfort. If the Congress does not honestly address the issues it is facing, putting up a good fight in 2024 will be extremely difficult.

The existence of Manu's statue on a court premises can be seen as a glorification of values that are against the basic structure and values of the constitution.

The answer to the long-pending issue is either through Centre's intervention in the ongoing judicial process or through a constitutional amendment. However, the PM chose to announce yet another committee to push the issue into cold storage at the recent MRPS meeting in Hyderabad.

Since the Congress party's victory in Karnataka, there has been lot of discussion around Karnataka model of development and Karnataka model of resistance to fascism across the country. However, such uncritical endorsement of any such models overshadows their inherent limitations and possible deceptions.

What is the nature of the BJP’s defeat of BJP and the Congress’s victory? Has the Karnataka Congress been transformed to wage a war against Hindutva through its ‘secular and welfarist’ governance? What do the first 50 days of Congress government suggest? 

Lingayatism was founded to disrupt Hinduism's Brahminical order. Centuries later, the community's social elite and new middle class has embraced the neoliberal and communal policies beloved of the Sangh Parivar.

The co-operative federalism promised by the Modi government has turned into coercive federalism. A look at events since 2019 unravels the real story behind Amul’s expansion to other territories and the penetration of private corporate capital through it.

The Karnataka government's decision to scrap reservations for Muslims in the OBC category is based either on selective reading of the Third Backward Class Commission report, or a strategy to deprive the community of constitutional benefits.

From a debate in the Constituent Assembly to the latest Backward Classes Commission report, the right of non-Hindus to be classified as 'backward' has almost always been upheld.

Juxtaposing the Hathras, Khairlanji and Bilkis Bano cases against the 2012 Nirbhaya case shows that the thinking of the judiciary often depends on the social status of the victim.

With nothing positive to show for its government, the saffron party is attempting to woo the Vokkaliga community in the poll-bound state with a false story of Tipu Sultan's rule.

Though the government appears to be working to resolve the demands of various communities, all it has really delivered is a few changes in name and an Act that is legally untenable.

There is a growing need to discuss the constitutional immunity that the private sector has enjoyed, even as it has deepened caste cleavages in India.

The saffron party has built a vote bank by manipulating the insecurities of the most downtrodden of the Hindus while protecting the supremacy of the 'upper' castes.

The Sangh parivar's response to the Karnataka BJP accepting the Justice Das Committee's recommendations to increase reservation for SCs and STs betrays the contradictions between the saffron party's ideology and politics, due to electoral compulsions.

The ruling party knows full well that no state legislature can implement sub-classifications in the SC reservation list at this point. So why make promises it really cannot keep?