Citizen’s Ledger

A man allegedly burns down a textile market in Surat and goods worth about ₹24 crore are destroyed. The immediate explanation sounds almost absurd: ₹10,000 in unpaid salary. Police say...

I had called my lawyer friend to discuss the second part of this story on Uniform Civil Code (UCC). The first part asked: Uniform for whom? This one asks another...

Before asking whether India needs a Uniform Civil Code, perhaps the ordinary citizen should ask a much simpler question: what will it change in my life? Will I have a...

There is a particular sentence that has become almost routine in the lives of people seeking serious medical treatment: “You have been referred.” Sometimes it is said by a doctor,...

Yesterday, I took a friend, Pradyumna, to donate blood for a relative of mine. At the blood collection centre, he was asked whether he had donated blood in the previous...

My son could not go to his tuition today. It is not a particularly dramatic event. No examination was missed, no emergency was involved and, presumably, he will make up...

Bhubaneswar: Imagine in a digitised age, especially when the state and central governments are advocating and spending crores of public money to digitise public utility services, a simple application for...