The voting pattern in the Rajya Sabha (RS) elections in Bihar and Odisha while has exposed the deepening crisis of unity within INDIA bloc, it has also put a big question mark on the tenability and ...

Often when a country is attacked by another country and two countries are at war, it is not realized adequately that people of both countries may not want this war which has been imposed on them due ...

On social media and in commentaries from Africa and other parts of the developing world, some observers began asking whether India still projects the same independent international posture it once did ...

In my dreams I see my days fluttering around their broken cage, hoping…. Hoping for what? Mingma asked himself and answered himself, I don’t know. Hoping for something surely. Then the white light ...

India’s Union Budget is rarely read as an ecological document. It is approached as an economic plan, a fiscal statement, or a set of sectoral promises. Yet budgets are never neutral. They disclose ...

This opening line in Charles Dickens’s classics, A tale of two cities,automatically crops up in the mind after reading two judgments handed down by the two different benches of the Supreme Court on ...

A small glitch in geopolitical dynamics reveals just how fragile our global economy truly is. The vulnerabilities of the development edifices we have constructed are now starkly evident. It is ...

What remains undeniable is that those arrested were repeatedly denied bail and subjected to prolonged legal ordeals. Over four years, the alleged “scam” has extracted a heavy political cost. The case ...

Abdullah Safdar (I believe) on the background of and reaction to the growth of communalism in British-controlled India as the movement for independence developed. From: The Communist International, ...