Autonomy

Extending the Sixth Schedule is a parliamentary/constitutional project, not a switch to be flipped by state rhetoric. Campaign for it if you choose—but do not concede, as a negotiating tactic, that today’s safeguards are hollow. They…

Special Status deceptively projected as Autonomy, Devolution of Power and Administrative Decentralization can be either an end to the struggle for bigger political status or the beginning of extending the administrative power of the Union…