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When decisions follow the cliché of one step forward and two steps backward, it is time to take note. In the last three days, announcements from the Karnataka government have not gone just two steps backward but have taken an extra step back as well. The BJP government was to…
After three weeks of lockdown, it appears there is a need to repeat the “don’ts” to the educated and the God fearing as well! The spike in the number of positive cases that emerged in several states after the Nizamuddin Markaz of the Tablighi Jamaat is well known. Yet, despite…
When India first began witnessing positive cases of COVID-19 outside of the initial few in Kerala, authorities were quick to implement a lockdown on March 24 to contain the spread of the virus. The rationale behind the lockdown was that the country expected to witness a large spike of positive…
In a searing interview, senior lawyer and former Advocate General for Karnataka, BV Acharya spoke exclusively to The Lede about the role of the judiciary in times of COVID-19. Stating that PILs must not be entertained by the courts at this time, he said all courts must exercise caution and…
The Karnataka government has ordered a ‘selfie’ moment. Literally! And it is not once or twice in a fortnight, as is the norm for all those kept under home quarantine for COVID-19. Neither is it once a day but every single hour until the second test for the deadly infection…
Congress members will undoubtedly agree with the assessment that their party’s leadership leaves them positively or negatively impacted more often, flummoxed. In Karnataka, the party high command has attempted, on the face of it, a delicate balancing act by appointing its best trouble-shooter in recent years, DK Shivakumar, as state…
Treena Mukherjee, a Zomato executive in Bengaluru, was 20 and a student of Madras Christian College when she was molested by three men on a crowded bus – all within five minutes. Four years later in 2012, she faced similar harassment in Bengaluru when she was cat-called and eve-teased while…
Something seems amiss with those dealing with law and its enforcement. And Karnataka appears to be setting new standards. In the last few weeks, Karnataka has gained notoriety for filing cases of sedition against an illiterate single mother, her teacher colleague, an indiscreet teenager and questioning by the police of…
For 26 years, Ravi Pujari ensured that the Indian police did not come anywhere close to him. His monitored calls yielded nothing because he had adopted technology like no other Mumbai-grown gangster had. But, technology, yet again, proved to be a great leveller. Pujari, wanted by the police of Karnataka,…
