We The People

Is middle-class India disengaged with politics and can they drive political change? We debate.

The arrest of two girls in Maharashtra over their Facebook posts has put the spotlight on deeply contentious sections of the information technology law.

In this week's We The People, a special panel discusses if political funding is at the root of corruption and how this funding can be made transparent.

On We the People, we debate on the balance between the universal principle of equality and the rituals and customs of tradition.

On We The People, we debate the right to die versus the right to live.

On this episode of We The People, we look at clinical trials and where the industry stands in India.

Are mobile towers modern day health hazards? We debate on We The People.

At the best of times, the relationship between India and Pakistan can be described as complex; it is sometimes adversarial, sometimes warm, but always complicated. As the governments of India and Pakistan work out their relationship over a range of issues, we debate the basic humanitarian issue of prisoners on either side of the border.

With the recent verdict in Naroda Patiya case, is the rule of law restoring a sense of justice in Gujarat?

We have seen a raging controversy around the government decision over the last week to ten days to block a few hundred web pages and some Twitter handles. After many protests, the government insisted that it had only clamped down web pages that actually were capable of inciting communal violence or contributing to the unrest. But is that really the case, or is this the case of the government blurring the lines between free speech and hate speech? Is this about political censorship?

India's six medals at the London Olympics are also tales of six self-made success stories that have made the country proud. Olympians reflect back on their epic journey and plans to make sports bigger in India.

With 181 IAS officers quitting in the last 10 years, we ask, is civil services no longer a dream career, and is the steel frame losing its sheen?

With several activists in India charged with sedition by Central and state governments we discuss whether the freedom of speech and expression also include the right to question the legitimacy of the state.

We The People brings the murdered Maruti manager's batchmates face to face with union workers, Maruti management, Haryana Chief Secretary, and the public prosecutor.

"Cancer survivors don't need sympathy or pity as it unnerves them," says Yuvraj Singh on this special episode of We The People.

Should capital punishment be abolished, and is there bias against poor and minorities who are on the death row? We debate on We The People.

Is organ trade a flourishing racket in India? Watch this We The People special expose on the black market of organ trade.

They say the real test of a democracy is how it treats its minorities. In India, the tragedy is, any debate on the minorities gets woefully politicised. The most recent debate is around what has come to be called the minority quota. The Centre, ahead of the Uttar Pradesh polls, said it wanted to reserve a sub-quota for minorities within the 27 per cent OBC quota. Recently, the Andhra Pradesh High Court struck down the quota within a quota for minorities arguing India's constitution does not allow religion to be a basis for reservation. We ask, is religion worse than caste as a basis for affirmative action and reservation?

Should working in India for a stipulated period of time be enforced by law onto doctors who go abroad? We debate.

As the Indian economy enters the danger zone, we debate on We The People which subsidies need to go and which should stay.