Judgements on decriminalising adultery, same-sex consensual relationship 'not a good law': Centre in SCThe Centre has informed the Supreme Court that landmark judgments on adultery and same-sex relationships were based on subjective 'constitu...
08 Apr, 2026, 05.29 PM IST
Centre backs restriction on women's Sabarimala entry in SC, says religious faith beyond judicial reviewThe Centre has informed the Supreme Court that the Sabarimala temple entry issue is a matter of religious faith. Solicitor General Tushar M...
07 Apr, 2026, 02.11 PM IST
Puducherry polls: Church raises community concernsChristian voters in Puducherry express concerns over AINRC's alliance with BJP. The Catholic Church views changes to the FCRA as an attempt...
07 Apr, 2026, 01.29 AM IST
Beware of Mohalla MajoritarianismParents of a 15-year-old in Sindhudurg, Maharashtra, were arrested for allegedly cheering for Pakistan during an India-Pakistan cricket mat...
28 Feb, 2025, 12.20 AM IST
There's no place for majoritarian judgesAllahabad High Court judge Shekhar Kumar Yadav's open endorsement of majoritarian views and derogatory remarks about Muslim clerics at a VH...
15 Dec, 2024, 10.41 PM IST
Israel's majoritarian push as majority willIsrael's judicial reforms is a cautionary tale for all strong governments. The inherent risk of coalitions cobbled together with a singular...
30 Jul, 2023, 11.28 PM IST
Moral of Karnataka poll results is people want plurality: Mamata BanerjeeWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday asserted that the moral of the Karnataka assembly poll results is people "want plura...
13 May, 2023, 06.48 PM IST
Modi govt subscribes to pluralism in world, supports majoritarianism in IndiaIn November 2017, India, Japan, the US and Australia gave shape to the long-pending proposal of setting up the Quad to develop a new strate...
21 Oct, 2021, 02.30 PM IST
View: Tough questions galore as third pillar of ‘secular’ India fallsThe fading away of that third important pillar of non-majoritarianism leaves us with just the first two.
26 May, 2019, 12.06 PM IST
Secularism is a fig leaf. We’re more Pakistani than we thinkHere the majoritarian impulse was restrained since 1947 under Congress which insisted on Nehruvian secularism as the cornerstone of our dem...
15 May, 2016, 01.23 PM IST
Majoritirian politics has limited shelf life: Congress"The Sri Lankan presidential election results tell you that majoritarian politics has a limited shelf-life. Finally, the majority rejects i...
09 Jan, 2015, 02.56 PM IST
Majoritarianism can never dictate policy decisions or legislationsMore importantly, 2002 post-Godhra riots had piggybacked Modi for more than a decade, which had made even the optimists skeptical about his...
06 Oct, 2014, 11.56 AM IST
RSS making provocative statements since BJP formed government: CPI-MThe party Politburo said, "Hindutva is a majoritarian concept which is part of the narrow and divisive agenda of the RSS."
18 Aug, 2014, 06.51 PM IST
Lok Sabha polls: Pet themes of BJP designed to polarise voters, says ChidambaramP Chidambaram today said it has been deliberately designed to polarise voters and "poison" their minds with a majoritarian approach.
08 Apr, 2014, 08.38 PM IST
Disappointing that Narendra Modi has not apologised for riots: P ChidambaramThe undercurrent of his cross- country campaign is majoritarianism and Congress will give a befitting reply to it, says Chidambaram.
18 Feb, 2014, 03.04 PM IST
Majoritarian politics can bring doom to democraciesDemocracy is not a winner-take-all system in which the majority can assert power without concern for dissenters or alternative voices.
17 Aug, 2013, 05.04 AM IST
- Minority rights in Sri Lanka aren’t helped by targeting its visiting civilians
The attack on Sri Lankan pilgrims in Tamil Nadu is the awful fallout of competitive grandstanding on the ‘Tamil cause’ by politicians in th...
06 Sep, 2012, 05.36 AM IST