Indira Jaising writes: CAA Rules go against equality, federalism and India’s Constitution
While the policy of protecting persecuted persons is more than welcome, the solution is to grant them all refugee status regardless of which religion they belong to.
Union govt shares Constitution preamble sans ‘Secular’ and ‘Socialist’ on social media
The original Preamble that came into force in 1950 did not have the words ‘secular’ and ‘socialist’, which were later added in 1976 by way of an amendment.
With the BJP pursuing its Hindu supremacist nativist ideology by decolonising law codes, this book has got alarm bells ringing in progressive circles invested in the secular, liberal and egalitarian values of Indian constitutionalism. Moiz Tundawala reviews Arghya Sengupta’s 'The Colonial Constitution'.