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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

What was even more shameful was that CM Omar Abdullah, opposition party leader Mehbooba Mufti and other ministers and leaders were kept under house arrest reminding people of the draconian clampdown ...

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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 ...

Religion, specially institutional religion always enjoys an advantage of having immunity from any sort of changeability as to its beliefs, practices and rituals. Hence, creationism hardly would have ...

How things hang together or balance each other is the dilemma of the amphibian we are talking about. How best to balance the needs of the self and urge it to go beyond. Focusing on the central theme ...