All published stories, explainers, timelines, and data-led notes on Narendra Modi and his governance record.
India's national anti-corruption ombudsman, the Lokpal, was legislated into existence years before it actually began functioning. This article explains why that delay happened, what changed once…
Few institutional debates in Indian politics generate as much sustained controversy as the question of whether central investigative agencies, specifically the Central Bureau of Investigation and…
Who gets to select India's Election Commissioners, the officials responsible for overseeing every national and state election, has become a genuinely contested question in recent years,…
A 1991 law meant to settle disputes over religious sites once and for all has instead become the subject of some of India's most closely watched…
Early in its first term, the Modi government attempted a fundamental overhaul of how India appoints its judges, replacing the judiciary-led Collegium system with a commission…
India's colonial-era sedition law spent years in an unusual legal limbo: neither struck down nor fully operational. This article explains the Supreme Court's 2022 order that…
The Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act is India's primary anti-terrorism law, and a 2019 amendment significantly expanded its scope. This article explains what changed, the low conviction…
Few Indian Supreme Court judgments have had as far-reaching an influence on subsequent law as the August 2017 ruling in K.S. Puttaswamy v. Union of India.…
India's system for appointing judges to its higher courts, the Collegium, has been a recurring source of friction between the judiciary and the executive throughout the…