New Yorkers on 25 June celebrated the victory of 33-year-old lawyer, Zohran Mamdani over his Republican rival Andrew Cuomo for the Democratic Party’s mayoral nomination to New York City, home to 8.5 ...

Being ugly is freedom; it’s a refusal to participate in someone else’s fantasy. It is confidence without needing approval. And that is real power. This piece offers a critical analysis of two widely ...

True sporting glory lies not just in lifting trophies, but also in ensuring that glory should never come at the cost of human life. The legacy of RCB’s first IPL win should be a celebration, but also ...

Furthermore, Yunus’s initiative for a ‘humanitarian corridor’ and ‘safe zone’ for Rohingya refugees has been met with strong opposition from General Zaman. The Army Chief has cited national security ...

Emergency needs to be placed in the context of capitalism. Capitalism requires extraction of surplus labour as profit and when workers do go on strike they lose their profit. During emergency there ...

Share of agriculture being mere 16 percent of GDP, eventually 65 percent of rural population are sustaining livelihoods in near poverty. Unless crores of landless get land and democratically ...

What we have seen here is an unbearably sad and cruel situation of innocent people being killed in large numbers on daily basis in very tragic ways day after day for a long time and nothing effective ...

In Arabian Nights, they hear how Khalifa Harun al-Rashid travelled in disguise to know the condition of ordinary people. Mahatma Gandhi also travelled in this way. Saints and monks have followed this ...

Nowhere is this more evident than in India’s expanding metadata surveillance regime, which operates largely in legal opacity and bureaucratic silence. While traditional surveillance has always been a ...

At the core of the discontent is the government’s admission, during an all-party meeting on April 24, that the Baisaran meadow—where the Pahalgam attack occurred—had been opened to tourists without ...

Judiciary in India faces unprecedented challenges. Its functioning is under constant scrutiny. The government is set to launch an impeachment proceeding against Justice Verma in whose outhouse burning ...

The Adverse Impact of the New Education Policy (NEP2020) on Bihar’s Education System” and the need to explore an alternative State Education Policy (SEP). This event, Bihar Policy Dialogue, was held ...