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• The Lokpal Debate: A Threat to Judicial Independence? | Ahmed Raza

  15 March 2025

  The recent decision to include High Court judges under the Lokpal

• When NGOs are Killed | Aishwarya Bhuta

  15 March 2025

  I write this with a heavy heart. In less than a year, I have helplessly witnessed the painful closure of two non-profit organisations close to my heart. One was my former employer, and another was where I came as a researcher but left as one of their own. The first was one among many casualties of the FCRA attack, the other of a donor

• Schooling or Struggle: A Reflection on Rural Schools | Sunit Singh

  15 March 2025

  This article reflects my thoughts on education in rural India after completing my course in Sociology of Education and doing a short one-month fieldwork in a Rishi Valley Rural Education Centre, Andhra Pradesh (The school is run by Krishnamurti Foundation India) during my MA program.
  What should be the aim of education? Do textbooks and exams help children? Think about your school days. Were you ever hesitant to go to school, only to be sent by your parents anyway? If you reflect on it, (…)

• Story of Raj Narain, the Indian Scocialist | Suresh Khairnar

  15 March 2025, by Suresh Khairnar

  After reading the 512 page book titled "Rajnarayan is not a name but history" edited by my Lucknow friend Shahnawaz Ahmad Qadri, I am writing this article as a self-confession and to review the book. Although Shahnawaz ji had been urging me for a long time to write something on Rajnarayan ji. But whatever I had heard about Rajnarayan ji from the leaders of the Praja Socialist Party of Maharashtra since childhood, he was nothing more than a ridiculous person. But after reading this book, I (…)

• India

  15 March 2025, by Jawed Naqvi

  COMMUNIST parties in India are quibbling over the characteristics of fascism, wondering if Antonio Gramsci

• Indo-US relations under the Trump Presidency 2.0 | P. S. Jayaramu

  15 March 2025, by P S Jayaramu

  March 10, 2025
  Undoubtedly, dealing with the United States under Trump 2.0 is the biggest challenge that Prime Minister Narendra Modi faces. Though it has been widely reported and perhaps believed that Modi enjoys a special personal relationship with the US President Donald Trump, it must be recognised that dealing with Trump in his second Presidency is a very formidable task for Modi and External Affairs Minister Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar. There are multiple reasons for it. Firstly, (…)

• James Bond has returned to international politics | Ash Narain Roy

  15 March 2025, by Ash Narain Roy

  In the 2021 James Bond film No Time to Die, the protagonist sacrifices himself and saves the world. The film, however, ends with a familiar swagger: "James Bond will return." Donald Trump promises no such sacrifice but is hell-bent on destroying America

• Sri Lanka: The NPP Government & Its Democratic Promise | Jayadeva Uyangoda

  15 March 2025

  15 January 2025
  How democratic will the National People

• Global Right-Wing Consolidation and the Fight? | D. Raja

  15 March 2025, by D Raja

  More than a century back, Vladimir Lenin described Imperialism as the highest state of capitalism, an outcome of the decay in capitalism. His analysis stands the test of time when we see a crisis-ridden capitalist order, which has failed to improve lives globally, resorting to desperate measures to ensure its survival, no matter what happens to the humanity. Consolidation of right-wing and far-right political forces globally in the tumultuous period post the financial meltdown of late-2000s (…)

• How the Modi Government is Towing the American Line | Radhakanta Barik

  15 March 2025, by Radhakanta Barik

  Rise of rightwing politics all over the world has been encouraged by USAID, be it Egypt or India. Remember the funding of the Banana Republics? The famous American story writer O Henry coined the phrase more than a hundred years ago to describe the fictional Republic of Anchuria in the book