Ever since India gained sovereign independence in 1947, election campaigns have been a regular affair with various political parties putting forward their candidates, policies and programmes to try ...

Immediately, 2 billion people around the world were labelled as ‘underdeveloped’, and it was a call from the global north to pursue development in the global south. This article seeks to analyse the ...

This paper explores why civilisational states exhibit cooperative values in trade and exchange. It highlights an irony where the decline of liberal states might have been expected to weaken trade ties ...

Trump’s recent onslaught on Harvard University has a political perspective. To put it in the words of a political scientist, Jason Johnson, based in Maryland: “Their goal is to intimidate and break ...

How Chasing White Voters in the South Changed American Politics by Angie Maxwell and Todd Shields. Oxford University Press: ...

This is not an economy for the people—it is an economy for profit, pomp, and propaganda. In a country where 80 crore people depend on free ration schemes for their daily survival, celebrating global ...

Life resonates even from lifeless objects, hence museums are much more than just collection of “lifeless” objects. We realized this when we visited the Allahabad Museum and saw the pistol kept at the ...

The monetisation of nationalism, where outrage trumps objective analysis reflects a broader erosion of journalistic ethics in India. India’s mainstream media, dubbed as ‘Godi media,’ has lost its ...

In this issue: Letter to the Readers, Mainstream [expected by June 10] Indian Sophias: A Distinct Breed | L K Sharma Cracks in Operation Sindur | Radhakanta Barik From Watchdog to Echo Chambers: Media ...

Executed through a Presidential Order, followed by the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, on August 5, 2019, India downgraded the state of J&K to a Union Territory. The rationale behind the ...

The resignation letter of the first General Secretary of the CPI(M), P. Sundarayya’s ‘My Resignation’ came up for discussion recently in a social media exchange in another context. As it happens, this ...