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Special Laws to Counter Terrorism in India: A Reality Check
November 20, 2012 Dr N Manoharan

A National Convention held recently in New Delhi on ‘Politics of Terror’ has brought to focus the need to re-look into provisions of special laws that are currently in use to counter terrorism. When confronted with armed militancy, democracies fa....

Jammu & Kashmir , North-East Insurgency , National Security and Strategic Studies , Governance and Political Studies , Police - Law and Order
Constitutionalism Versus Adventurism
November 19, 2012 Dr M N Buch (late)

The Constitution of India, despite the amendments which have been introduced from time to time, has a high degree of immutability, partly because its basic structure is sound, partly because it establishes a balance between public good and the const....

Governance and Political Studies
Building a Self Cleansing Environment
November 14, 2012 Dr M N Buch (late)

One of the defining moments in my life was when I was on deputation to Princeton University for a mid-career course. It was the height of the Vietnamese War and the United States was in ferment because many people, especially students, opposed the wa....

Governance and Political Studies
JPCs must have The Power to Summon Ministers
November 14, 2012 Dr A Surya Prakash

Archaic rules and deep divisions along political lines within the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probing the controversial 2G Spectrum sale has affected the efficacy and sanctity of parliamentary investigations. While the controversy over the co....

Governance and Political Studies
An Object Lesson for Indian Political Parties
November 05, 2012 Dr M N Buch (late)

China is not a democracy and there is the one party rule of the Communist Party of China (CPC). From time to time the Party holds party meetings at which matters of policy are discussed in detail. The 16th CPC Central Committee meeting wa....

Governance and Political Studies
India Shining? Or India, The Dark Continent?
October 30, 2012 Dr M N Buch (late)

The newspaper headlines and electronic media such as NDTV24×7, Times Now, CNN-IBN keeps screaming at us that India is the land of scams, the very fountainhead of corruption. On the one hand are the Indian people – harried, betrayed, looted by thos....

Governance and Political Studies
How Do We Revive Healthy Politics In India?
October 22, 2012 Dr M N Buch (late)

When India became independent the one and only national level political party was the Congress, whose identity as the party in the vanguard of the freedom movement gave it a very special place in the hearts and minds of Indians. Mahatma Gandhi was ....

Governance and Political Studies
Should Power Necessarily Corrupt?
October 05, 2012 Dr M N Buch (late)

Lord Acton said, “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely”. Why does this happen? Perhaps we can find the answer in the words of Bertrand de Jouvenel, which are. “A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wo....

Governance and Political Studies
Down With Subsidies, Up With Reforms
September 27, 2012 Dr M N Buch (late)

There is unemployment in India? There is poverty? The economy is stagnating? What is causing all this? Obviously the only villain on the scene is a gentleman called Mr. Subsidy. Because the State gives subsidies it causes the budget to imbalance, ra....

Governance and Political Studies
Freedom of Speech and Archaic Law on Sedition
September 17, 2012 Dr M N Buch (late)

The Chambers Twenty-first Century Dictionary defines sedition in the following words: “Public speech, writing or action encouraging public disorder, especially rebellion against the government “. The word itself comes from the Latin word sedit....

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