Treatise for federalism: On Tamil Nadu and the Kurian Joseph report

A high-level committee led by Justice Kurian Joseph has warned that India’s federal democracy is being steadily weakened by increasing centralisation of power. Drawing from constitutional debates, past commission reports, and governance trends, the panel calls for an urgent structural reset—comparable to the 1991 reforms to restore the balance between the Union and the States and safeguard India’s diverse, federal future.