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- Jul 27, 2026
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Ashok Lavasa writes | Jantar Mantar taught us what democracy means, beyond elections (opens the original)
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Three hundred and two years ago, a monument was erected in Delhi, the name of which means “instrument used for calculation”. “Jantar” comes from “yantra”, meaning instrument, and “mantar” comes from “mantrana”, meaning “to consult” or “to calculate”. What we witnessed near that monument in the last few weeks was a regime bereft of any instrument to calculate the ferocity of the storm that originated in the virtual world thousands of miles away, and advanced at uncontrollable speed to damage a de
Ashok Lavasa writes: On a 17-year-old recruitment case, I understood why Dickens called the law an ass (opens the original)
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In a season of protests against paper leaks and manipulations in examinations, I found myself last week “caught” in a recruitment scam. My crime? Signing a letter in April 2009 conveying the Home Minister’s (HM) permission to prosecute an Inspector General (IG) of the Central Reserve Police Force. The HM was himself “recruited” after his predecessor resigned following the November 26, 2008 terrorist attack in Mumbai. It was conceivable in those days to see ministers suffering for the “failure to
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