Protests Meant to Obfuscate Main Issues

Since June-July this year, the country has been in the grip of one kind of crisis or another and protests galore, with people spilling onto the streets to express their anger and frustration and demanding change. I had written about this in a previous Owleye column post of mine in which I said that almost… Continue reading Protests Meant to Obfuscate Main Issues

State Elections in India and the State of Their Economies

It’s that time of the year again when some of India’s states are going to elections in a huge expression of our faith in democracy. Of course, this time these come against the backdrop of the SIR (Serious Internal Revision) exercise of our electoral rolls that has become particularly controversial in states like West Bengal.… Continue reading State Elections in India and the State of Their Economies