Category: Politics of Minority Appeasement

A placeholder for the Uniform Civil Code

Considering that this is going to remain a hot topic for some time to come, I am creating this post to act as a placeholder for links and articles related to the Uniform Civil...

On the mess that is RTE..

Almost five years back in 2009, India enacted a “landmark” bill and created a new “Right” – the “Right to Education”. Normally a new “right” ought to be celebrated. But as columnist Meeta Sengupta...

The “Business” and “Economics” of the Hajj Subsidy

Thanks to RealityCheck for prompting this post. Read on for an amazing story of discretionary powers, patronage, quotas and favours that revolves around the Hajj subsidy. The extracts are from a court order disposing...

One day, we may need an “Indian” quota

Courtesy my friend RealityCheck (emphasis added); please try and ignore the absurdity of the headline in (as RealityCheck so memorably puts it) “a chest thumping secular country“. From 2 more minority lists put up, cut-offs...