Welcome to this edition of The Hindu on Books Newsletter. On January 26, India stepped into the 77th year of being a Republic. The Constitution emerged through negotiation, participation, and ...

In December, 2019, the Indian Parliament passed the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, explicitly allowing non-Muslim refugees from neighbouring Islamic countries an expedited path to citizenship. For the ...

Debate continues over the rigidity and flexibility of a document inked seventy-six years ago, while successive governments keep pressing amendments into that original “we”. The Outlook issue of 21 ...

75 years after the drafting of the Indian constitution, the Hindutva project is no longer to burn the book, but to become its high priest. Unlike the Emergency of 1975, the current regime’s assault is ...

Constitution Day (Samvidhan Diwas) marks the historic adoption of the Constitution of India by the Constituent Assembly on November 26, 1949. A major highlight of the celebration will be the unveiling ...