We The People

A watershed judgement by Calcutta High Court puts 17 doctors on trial for criminal conspiracy for a woman's death due to medical negligence in 1998. We debate whether doctors are soft targets or not accountable enough.

Telangana announcement has triggered demands of statehood from a number of regions. Are smaller states better units of governance? And will Telangana lead to more new states?

Is the correlation between English and people of privilege leading to snuffing of other Indian languages?

We The People debates whether there is a thin line between magic and miracles, or are they completely different things? Are godmen miracle workers or tricksters?

From Ishrat Jahan's case to the recent Mumbai court verdict that gave life imprisonment to 13 cops, we ask whether as a country we have a wide tolerance & acceptance of encounters as a tool to combat not just gangsters & criminals but also terrorists. Is this now inevitable as we live in the age of terrorism or do we need to invoke stronger constitutional principles to stop this practice?

Child marriage has often been compared with child abuse. While the legal age of marriage is 18 for women and 21 for men, the age of consent for sex is now at 18 as well. On We The People, we ask whether the same age should be set for the age of consent and the age of marriage and what about the ambiguities in the law? At best the law is not sufficient to deal with the prevalent act of child marriages. But if the law itself is ambiguous, does that not multiply the problem?

As our soldiers save the day again in Uttarakhand, We The People debates, does the country remember our soldiers only in times of crisis and forgets them in peace time?

Uttarakhand disaster is natural, but is the damage more man-made? Unbridled construction, open flouting of norms and scant regard for ecology has risked thousands of lives. Was the CAG warning three years ago on a disaster waiting to happen ignored?

Almost all the top leadership of the Congress in Chhattisgarh was killed in an attack by Maoists last week. Civil societies and politicians are still debating on what should be the anti-Naxal strategy and there seem to be no consensus. On We The People, we ask, is this an issue that is just being politicised rather than being addressed.

Almost 20 crore Indians sleep hungry every night. One would say it would be a no-brainer that Right to Food should be a universal right, and yet the Food Security Bill has become one the most politically and economically divisive subject in recent times. On We The People, we debate why the template for providing food security to the people of India, has become something that we cannot agree on.