Praveen Dixit

The Nashik IT scandal is forcing India’s tech industry to confront failures of power and protection. In the first week of this month, the Nashik city police registered nine cases involving attempt to religious conversion, sexual harassment and harassment at the workplace, all centred on a local branch of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). The nine accused, including seven men and two women, held positions of authority such as team leaders and are alleged to have misused their roles to harass...

India’s laws and policing must finally shed their colonial skin and learn to govern by consent rather than coercion. India’s legal and policing architecture still carries the unmistakable imprint of the Raj. Its instincts are adversarial, its reflexes coercive, and its imagination confined to order rather than justice. That gap between authority and legitimacy is not merely administrative but philosophical, and it urgently needs repair. Let us turn to statecraft as explained in the Valmiki...

Social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram are being increasingly used to incite persons of certain community in couple of hours...