Who Picks the Umpire? The Election Commission’s Independence
A UPSC Mains editorial on who appoints the CEC and Election Commissioners, the 2023 Appointment Act, Anoop Baranwal, and the awaited Supreme Court verdict…
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Justice Delayed at Scale: India’s Judicial Pendency Crisis
A UPSC Mains GS2 editorial on India's five-crore judicial backlog, the judge-population ratio, and the structural fixes that would actually unclog the courts.
Judicial Appointments: Collegium, NJAC and the Search for Balance
A UPSC Mains editorial on judicial appointments in India, weighing the collegium's independence against its opacity and delay after the NJAC strike-down.
Delimitation and the North-South Divide: One-Person-One-Vote vs Federal Fairness
A UPSC Mains editorial on delimitation, the lapsing 1971 seat freeze, and the defeated 131st Amendment Bill, weighing one-person-one-vote against federal fairness.
The Governor’s Office and Article 200: Assent, Deemed Assent and Federal Friction
A UPSC Mains GS2 editorial on Article 200, the Governor's three options on bills, deemed assent, and the Supreme Court's November 2025 Presidential Reference…
The Anti-Defection Law: The Speaker’s Pocket and the Defection Loophole
A UPSC Mains editorial on the Tenth Schedule, the Speaker's adjudicatory role, and why the 2025 Telangana Supreme Court ruling reopened the case for…
One Nation, One Election: Efficiency vs Federalism
A UPSC Mains GS2 editorial on One Nation, One Election, weighing the efficiency case against the federalism case as the JPC and the 129th…
Persons with Disabilities: The Inclusion India Keeps Deferring
A UPSC Mains editorial on disability inclusion in India: the RPwD Act 2016, the Rajive Raturi accessibility verdict, the data undercount, and the gap…
Urbanisation and the Urban Poor: The City India Forgot to Build
A UPSC Mains GS1 editorial on India's urbanisation, slums, migrants and the housing gap, pegged to the World Bank's 2025 cities report and PMAY-Urban…
Tribal Welfare, PVTGs and Forest Rights
A UPSC Mains editorial on tribal welfare, PVTGs and the Forest Rights Act, weighing record scheme spending against a 36% FRA rejection rate and…
Manual Scavenging and the Dignity of Sanitation Workers
A UPSC Mains editorial on manual scavenging, sewer deaths, the PEMSR Act, the NAMASTE scheme, and the caste and dignity questions behind India's banned-but-persisting…
Social Security for Gig and Informal Workers
A UPSC Mains editorial on social security for India's gig and informal workers after the Code on Social Security 2020 came into force, with…