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pushparaj.work@gmail.comEducated at the Doon School, St. Stephen's College, and the University of Oxford, Pushparaj Deshpande has worked on legislation and policy with various members of Parliament, a government committee, a political consulting firm and the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation. He is currently the head of research at Rajya Sabha Television.
Posts by Pushparaj Deshpande
Governance by ordinance
The UPA government recently explored taking the ordinance route to promulgate six anti-corruption bills. This article traces the shift from the post-Independence culture of healthy parliamentary deba...
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Pushparaj Deshpande 
17 March, 2014
- Perspectives
Re-conceptualising crime and punishment
A Delhi court has awarded the death penalty to the convicts in the December 2012 gangrape incident. This article discusses the moral basis and dangers of relying on this form of punishment for deterr...
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Pushparaj Deshpande
- 26 February, 2014
- Perspectives