India’s Constitution is more than a legal document. It carries the values of the freedom movement and the dreams of its makers. Two of its core principles - socialism and secularism are not foreign ...

Bihar has one of the highest concentrations of working people and marginalised communities in the country, many of whom are under-documented and live in conditions that make it impossible to maintain ...

The expulsion of Uganda’s Asian population, estimated at seventy thousand, was announced in August; we were given three months to leave. Around twenty thousand had Ugandan citizenship. Roughly the ...

Does Bihar Show the Way? Of course, the perspective was different from the present one. Very recently, the Election Commission of India (EC) has initiated a Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the ...

Twenty-one Months of Draconian Rule; Author: Sebastian Joseph; Publishers: Konark; Pages: xiii + 365; Price: Rs 450 Many in the Congress today murmur, some more than the others, that Indira Gandhi ...

Ultimately, the PEP drafters believe in participatory policy-making, involving everyone. They plan to gather feedback from people across the country over the next six months and finalize the policy ...

What We Expect Queerness to Look Like There is a certain script that many people—especially allies, scholars, and supporters—have grown used to. It often goes like this: a person discovers they are ...

(Author: Richa Walia, Associate Professor, Centre for Gender Studies, Institute for Development and Communication (IDC), Chandigarh, India) ...

Rooted in Michel Foucault’s analysis and deepened by Giorgio Agamben’s radical meditations, biopolitics refers to the exercise of power over life itself—over bodies, populations, and the biological ...

In effect, Netanyahu has been strutting around the globe on the strength and assurance of the United States of America (USA), which is not just supplying the most modern and sophisticated arms, ...

Jason Stanley’s “How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them” presents a meticulously researched exploration of the mechanisms by which fascist politics operate within modern democracies. Being a ...