The Indian Express: 09/12/2019 Last week, the Centre urged the Supreme Court to refer to a larger Bench its decision last year that had applied the creamy layer principle to promotions for Scheduled Castes...
The Hindu: October 10, 2019 The Harvard undergraduate admissions case has elements that strongly resonate with the Indian reservation debate. In 2014, a group called “Students for Fair Admissions” (SFFA), founded by a conservative...
The Indian Express RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat has a question troubling him which he wants debated. He asked the question at the time of the Bihar elections four years ago. It embarrassed the BJP...
July 24, 2019,TOI Andhra Pradesh assembly on Monday created history. Of the wrong kind. It became the first state to enact a law which reserves 75% jobs for locals in private industrial units and...
The Indian Express: July 10, 2019 Ever since the Supreme Court gave its ruling in the Indra Sawhney case, the complications surrounding the issue of OBC reservations have defied solutions. As I have argued,...
February 15, 2010: The Indian Express But in West Bengal, the Left Front’s many political reasons to keep on pushing for them The recent announcement of a 10 per cent quota for backward Muslims...
The Hindu, 31st May 2008. It is only elections that political parties have in mind. If anarchy spreads, how does it matter? With the full approval of the BJP central leadership, Vasundhara Raje made the...
The Indian Express: 28.1.19 Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, while defending the Constitution (124th Amendment) Bill, 2019 that provides 10 per cent reservation in jobs and education to the economically weaker sections (EWS)...
July 17,2016:The Times of India With hundreds of OBCs declared ineligible for job reservations after clearing the UPSC-run civil services, the National Commission for Backward Classes (NCBC) has urged the Centre to rectify the...
May 2, 2016:The Times of IndiaGujarat’s announcement of a 10% quota for economically backward classes in education and government jobs represents a misdiagnosis of a pressing problem. The proposal is bound to be challenged...
