https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/fix-administrative-onus-for-illegal-constructions/September 1, 2022, 4:19 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/images-78.jpegOpinionThe Supertech towers are demolished, leaving behind grave questions of accountability of many undetected partners in crime. Considering that Indian cities are expected to double their population by 2050 with many new megacities added, one cannot a...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/focus-on-un-resolution-on-religion-beliefs/August 25, 2022, 12:18 pmhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/united-nations-flag-01-1.jpgOpinionThe General Assembly failed to elaborate on the limits to practising ‘religions’ as well as ‘beliefs’. The terms ‘religion’ and ‘beliefs’ are the two most mischievous words of social theory. https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/fix-administrative-onus-for-illegal-constructions/September 1, 2022, 4:19 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/images-78.jpegOpinionPublic policies inherently focus on problems in captions not in the content that follows. While carcass of big cash earning animals like tigers, elephants and livestock make news, the smaller ones just disappear. Animal protection laws suffer from...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/fix-administrative-onus-for-illegal-constructions/September 1, 2022, 4:19 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/images-78.jpegOpinionA recent initiative on soil conservation by the illustrious Sadhguru of Isha Foundation, followed by a passionate speech on this concern by Prime Minister Narendra Modi provokes a much desirable discourse on soil conservation as a sine qua non of ...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/environment-day-with-a-missing-spring-and-lost-souls/June 2, 2022, 5:58 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/environment.jpgOpinionMost of us are aware of the 2003 heatwave when thousands of people died in not just the northern states, but also Odisha and beyond where ocean winds are said to cool the environment. https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/fix-administrative-onus-for-illegal-constructions/September 1, 2022, 4:19 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/images-78.jpegOpinionEvery year the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) announces a theme-specific for that year’s Biodiversity Day on 22nd May. This year a theme that needs much introspection on the policy front is ‘Building a shared future fo...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/political-recidivism-beyond-courts-to-control/April 28, 2022, 9:07 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/809afb14_8685_P_1_mr-1.jpgOpinionThere are several cases where politicians have bypassed the limits set by laws and in turn made society increasingly vulnerable to crimes provoked by hate and vengeance.https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/smart-cities-raised-over-virtual-communities/April 21, 2022, 6:17 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/8a5ce38f_8576_P_1_mr-1.jpgOpinionThe government should seriously revisit its smart cities mission outlook to achieve its objective of liveability, eco-ability and sustainability which goes much further into a sturdy nation-building process as well. https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/%ef%bb%bfpolice-constables-in-smart-cities/April 14, 2022, 2:24 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/2acba7f5_8497_P_1_mr-1.jpgOpinionPolice reforms are expected to be part of institutional or governance reforms which form the third pillar of smart cities, the other three envisaged pillars being social, physical, and economic infrastructure. https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/smart-cities-need-smart-answers-for-stray-animals/April 7, 2022, 7:07 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Animal-Rights-1.jpgOpinionSmart Cities Mission may like to graduate to a more sustainable ecosystem-based happiness where every creature is part of the web of life. https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/fix-administrative-onus-for-illegal-constructions/September 1, 2022, 4:19 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/images-78.jpegOpinionCan a ‘smart city’ co-exist with ethical and legal guilt of manual scavenging? Interestingly, this stark reality has been met with bold denial by leaders of smart cities. Cities of Bhopal, Indore, Bangalore, Surat, Ahmedabad, Lucknow, Gurgaon and ...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/grassroots-concerns-in-smart-city-rankings/March 24, 2022, 3:23 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/2c49d37c_8268_P_1_mr-1.jpgOpinionRanking is not easy, especially when a large number of people do not like the term ‘smart city’ for various reasons which have escaped the government’s attention.https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/why-we-need-humanitarian-law-in-disaster-management/January 20, 2022, 7:48 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/law.pngOpinionThe origin of humanitarian law suggests its close linkage to human sensitivities. Law is an outcome of collective rationality of ‘we the people’, which is the real sovereign. https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/the-capacity-to-govern/January 13, 2022, 7:50 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/6b7827cf_7391_P_4_mr-1.jpgOpinionThe capacity to govern has been challenged by many mistakes that governments commit intentionally or inadvertently. One such mistake that rulers make is in treating prosperity as greatness, which is not. https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/some-thoughts-on-the-judicial-oversight-of-executive-actions/December 30, 2021, 6:44 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/69ca44af_4993_P_4_mr-1.jpgOpinionOne understands judicial oversight as a process by which the judiciary examines the legality of any executive action according to the provisions of the Constitution or law of a country.https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/a-lethal-touch-to-the-%ef%bb%bfpreamble-of-indias-constitution/December 9, 2021, 4:25 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/constitution-of-india-1.jpgOpinionThe politics of our country is on a test drive of majoritarianism being ferociously provoked as a cause for achieving national unity. In consequence and eventually, everyone starts feeling insecure and the state appropriates a role for wartime pre...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/democratic-deficits-and-disaster-management/December 2, 2021, 2:28 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Democratic-deficits-and-disaster-management-1.jpgOpinionDisaster management may turn into a bigger disaster if complaint handling mechanisms fail to resonate in the Parliament. In our emerging concern for Parliament’s democratic deficits, one need not be complacent to phenomenal challenges that besiege...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/religion-free-governance-must-for-secular-india/November 25, 2021, 12:47 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Sardar-Gujarat-1.jpgOpinionSecularism is not just political and social expediency but a need for survival of all the unique richness of what we call ‘India’https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/%ef%bb%bfwhy-corbett-tiger-reserve-needs-immediate-attention/November 18, 2021, 7:13 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/65855df6_6163_P_5_mr-1.jpgOpinionThe current crisis of Corbett Reserve is not a new one but the speed and volume with which these surreptitious illegal construction and tree felling have been pushed with impunity have threatened environmentalists including wildlife conservationis...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/indian-administration-and-its-political-masters/November 4, 2021, 2:12 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/4eb9a511_5873_P_4_mr-1.jpgOpinionIndian administrative system has always been challenged by the recurrent attempts made by political masters to use them as shields in their malpractices. Max Weber had anticipated this trouble, and brought to debate control of administration by P...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/firecracker-verdict-or-licence-to-pollute-with-impunity/October 28, 2021, 4:19 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/dbe804e2_5727_P_4_mr-2-1.jpgOpinionThe verdict is based upon some highly distorted and propagandized beliefs; that there is something like green crackers, that green crackers do not pollute, that enforcement agencies can actually enforce a two-hour duration for lighting crackers an...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/what-ails-uttarakhands-governance/October 21, 2021, 2:59 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/ad1dda3b_5596_P_1_mr-1.jpgOpinionUttarakhand region had never been well governed. Till 2000 it was part of Uttar Pradesh where the predatory leadership sucked its wealth and labour. After being carved as a separate state it was expected to progress and many things improved such a...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/its-turn-for-googles-climate-ethics/October 14, 2021, 7:11 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/google.pngOpinionThe digital ads promoting the triviality of claims made by climate change protagonists would now be pulled out from any public viewing.https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/fix-administrative-onus-for-illegal-constructions/September 1, 2022, 4:19 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/images-78.jpegOpinionFrom awe-inspiring spirituality emanating from the mighty Himalayas to the translucent blue waters of Maldives, South Asia exists as the richest cultural platform on planet earth. This piece of land has world’s most ornate biodiversity, assortment...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/courtrooms-visionary-indigence-on-professional-women/September 23, 2021, 7:26 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/69ca44af_4993_P_4_mr-1.jpgOpinionAnswers to myriad perplexing questions which are profoundly significant in the interest of justice rather emerge in the minds of judges and not the law books. Judges can make an effort to combine legal pluralism with litigation theory in laws for ...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/thoughts-on-the-international-day-of-democracy/September 16, 2021, 1:31 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/c10ea84c_4837_P_4_mr-1.jpgOpinionUN’s most powerful organ, the Security Council is a face of unrepresentative and imperious decision making at United Nations which blatantly ignored even some most compelling demands made during the pandemic by nations beyond its five permanent me...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/women-judges-and-raised-hopes-for-substantive-justice/September 9, 2021, 7:16 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Judges.jpgOpinionJudges with a patriarchal frame can hardly be expected to deliver justice and this frame is sustained for a longer period if the judiciary remains male-dominated with a mere cosmetic representation of women.https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/use-and-abuse-of-social-media/September 2, 2021, 5:44 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Social-media-300x169.jpgOpinionSocial media technologies like Facebook, Twitter, and blogs have rapidly emerged as one of the strongest weapons of contemporary governance in the last 16 years since the origin of Facebook in 2004. According to statistics provided by Global Media...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/time-to-end-trial-by-media/August 20, 2021, 7:11 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/e146bf71_4216_P_5_mr-1.jpgOpinionThe Centre should enact a law to prevent any more harm to those still being denied the right to a free and fair trial due to pre-trial by media. https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/pegasus-saga-personal-liberty-in-a-networked-state/July 22, 2021, 6:41 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Webp.net-resizeimage-2021-07-22T064005.285.jpgOpinionThe government should present a white paper of the Pegasus hacking allegations and reclaim public trust for effective governance, or the idea of digitising India may have to stand on stilts.https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/cooperation-ministry-or-cocooning-cooperatives/July 15, 2021, 3:44 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/amit-shah-300x169.pngOpinionAt a time when the nation increasingly looks up for intercultural dialogues to create new pluralistic discourses of political economy, the Ministry of Cooperation represents the likelihood of monolithic free trade catechisms, proliferating multina...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/criminal-justice-system-needs-a-revisit-post-stan-swamy/July 8, 2021, 2:10 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/ebf0fb10_3321_P_7_mr-2-1.jpgOpinionThis whole case of Stan Swamy brings out demoralising facts from the crevices of our crumbling criminal justice system to which he was probably the oldest victim charged with terrorism under UAPA 1967.https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/toolkit-on-how-to-kill-a-university/July 3, 2021, 8:48 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/10ecb8e8_3296_P_1_mr-1.jpgOpinionThis column comes in the face of an arbitrary order to supersede three senior professors and make way for a down in the ladder person as head of one of the largest departments of a premiere ‘Delhi University’. Those working in universities have fo...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/policy-implementation-and-political-expediency-in-covid-times/June 24, 2021, 6:29 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/ae8de7b9_2902_P_3_mr-1.jpgOpinionGovernments cannot escape implementing their policies. Implementation is not just getting it done, but letting it happen.https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/world-needs-more-no-meat-days/June 17, 2021, 4:43 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/700f4de7_3092_P_4_mr-1.jpgOpinionAround 80 billion animals are slaughtered for food in a year. And to keep this savage business running, most of the precious primary resources of the environment such as water and land are diverted in bulk to the meat industry.https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/analysing-law-ethics-and-mischiefs-of-politics/June 10, 2021, 8:33 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Webp.net-resizeimage-2021-06-10T083308.696.jpgOpinionThe judgement on Central Vista opens the door for marauding governance eyeing prized locations to build their monuments and inscribe names on it.https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/war-and-the-scorched-planet-earth/June 3, 2021, 4:08 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/4fcee93f_2914_P_5_mr-1.jpgOpinionThe strongest environmental movement to save this planet must begin through the generation of humanity’s moral and intellectual solidarity which exposes them to their across the boundary fellow-humans.https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/is-law-enough-to-protect-environment/May 27, 2021, 8:41 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/environment.jpgOpinionIt’s time to look at the environment as a living resource, understand the language in which it speaks to us, and prevent another Covid-19 kind of a calamity that none of the governments, epidemiologists, or even virologists are in a position to ha...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/how-serious-are-we-about-conserving-biological-diversity/May 21, 2021, 6:30 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/11dbe811_2763_P_4_mr-1.jpgOpinionCovid-19 has taught us the lesson that pushing for development without protecting the diversity of species and their habitats on earth can be fatal for humankind. It is important that we listen to more environmentalists today, ensure stronger lega...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/gnctd-amendment-act-the-challenges-of-governing-delhi/May 13, 2021, 6:05 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/a1566970_2677_P_4_mr-1.jpgOpinionThe recent GNCTD Amendment Act seems to be a case of using legislation to settle ideological disputes. However, in doing so, it not only violates the principles of constitutional morality and objectivity, but also defies the democratic and federal...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/%ef%bb%bfcovid-crisis-in-india-post-elections-introspection/May 6, 2021, 3:35 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/7b513190_2597_P_4_mr-1.jpgOpinionDespite forewarnings, India found itself completely unprepared to tackle the lethal second wave of Covid-19 thanks to delayed decision-making and uncoordinated efforts by the administration. To prevent such a disaster from recurring, the system n...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/about-governance-diverting-priorities-puts-india-on-notice/April 29, 2021, 3:02 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/ff8df13c_2504_P_5_mr-1.jpgOpinionIndia’s survival depends upon responsible governance which accommodates its growth agenda with sustainable development. Public health and the environment cannot be rubbished for decisions borne out of apathy and diverted priorities.https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/forest-fires-not-a-priority-for-government%ef%bb%bf/April 22, 2021, 4:06 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/66a1d4a9_2408_P_4_mr-1.jpgOpinionIn 2019-20 alone, India lost nearly 38,500 hectares or 14% of its tropical forests. With about one-fifth of it going up in flames each year, Indian forests are no more carbon sinks but carbon emission areas. Why then is the Ministry of Environment...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/what-is-in-the-jai-shri-ram-slogan/April 8, 2021, 1:39 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/305aedfe_2242_P_5_mr-1.jpgOpinionThe warm community greeting of ‘Jai Shri Ram’ has assumed the proportions of an incendiary war cry in recent times. How did it become so and does it respect the true spirit of the Ramayana or Lord Ram?https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/embedded-patriarchy-in-science-must-end/March 4, 2021, 2:20 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/de89b08f_1845_P_4_mr-1.jpgOpinionHistory and research have shown proof of how few women in science have received their due, despite making discoveries and providing services which have led to the progress of modern science and civilisation. Decision makers must find a way to put ...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/government-needs-to-be-an-active-participant-in-disaster-research/February 25, 2021, 8:23 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/UK-GLACIER-1.jpgOpinionIn the wake of the recent Uttarakhand floods, the government needs to hold the hands of researchers and local communities, and encourage open and honest fieldwork and research.https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/wet-markets-as-pandemics-epicentre/February 18, 2021, 9:41 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/1f5d05e3_1693_P_4_mr-1.jpgOpinionWet markets endanger not just exotic animal species and biodiversity, but also the human race at large—as has been proved by the Covid-19 pandemic, which originated in a Wuhan wet market and became one of the gravest disasters the world has seen. ...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/glacier-burst-its-time-to-talk-about-disaster-accountability/February 12, 2021, 8:38 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/2cf1dcca_1632_P_1_mr-1.jpgOpinionIn the aftermath of the recent Uttarakhand floods, the rescue-and-relief operations announced by the government have been highlighted widely by the media. However, instead of focusing on who can manage consequences, a disaster of such magnitude sh...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/india/dakshayani-velayudhan-a-dalit-woman-in-constituent-assembly/January 22, 2021, 2:34 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/the_only_dalit_woman_who_was_part_of_the_making_of_the_constitution.jpgIndiaThe Constitution can largely be called the voice of men. Women representatives were a minuscule 15 in number out of 389 people in the Constituent Assembly. Hailing from Kerala, Dakshayani Velayudhan was the only Dalit woman amongst them.https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/centre-needs-to-introspect-amid-farmers-agitation/January 14, 2021, 12:31 pmhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/398feb94_1319_P_1_mr-1.jpgOpinionThe Human Development Report 2020 should alert the government as India has fallen to the 131st position out of 189 countries, even though it was at the 129th position in 2018. In its Rule of Law score, India stands at the 69th position out of 128 ...