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• A Hamletian situation for Modi | Faraz Ahmad

  19 March, by Faraz Ahmad

  Why is Prime Minister Narendra Modi reluctant to raise his little finger at the imperial bully, the President of the United States of America (USA), Donald Trump and the expansionist Zionist Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu?
  It is now full three weeks since US and Israel launched a joint unprovoked attack on Iran on February 28, killing Iran

• The Political Economy of Elite Ecology in India

  19 March

  Mar 7, 2026
  India

• Kejriwal

  19 March, by Albert Smith

  On February 27, the Rouse Avenue Court in Delhi discharged Arvind Kejriwal and 23 others in the case filed by the CBI in connection with the 2021 excise policy. A discharge does not determine guilt or innocence; it terminates proceedings altogether before trial begins

• Understanding the Question of

  19 March, by Subhash Gatade

• When India Was the Lodestar | Manu Kant

  19 March, by Manu Kant

  In recent weeks, India

• Mingma

  19 March, by Papri Sen Sri Raman

  Mingma Sherpa dozed in the mid-morning heat. He lay on his pellet on a hard wooden plank, a few feet from the floor, trying to read. The book fell off his hand soon and his eyes closed. He dreamt of the bright white sunlight streaming down from the skylight near the ceiling of the tiny dark room, lighting up the cage. It was an ordinary iron cage holding the little bird. A sparrow, looking rugged, also dozing, its little head tucked into its feathers.
  Mingma asked himself why the sparrow (…)

• Salutary and Awful Judgments From Polyvocal Supreme Court | Vijay Kumar

  19 March, by Vijay Kumar

• Geopolitical Conflicts, Development Crises, and the Second Contradiction of Capitalism | K. Sahadevan

  19 March, by K. Sahadevan

  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 undeniable that the US war of aggression against Iran has created major cracks in global supply chains.
  The war in the Persian gulf is in full swing.The movement of goods through the Strait of Hormuz remains blocked for now. Difficult to say when the return to ’normal’, potentially allowing supply (…)

• Leadership quality of Rahul Gandhi has been put on test by his party MLAs cross-voting defying his ideological thrust | Arun Srivastava

  19 March, by Arun Srivastava

  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 pertinence of the politico ideological contour, a consistent, guiding set of political principles, beliefs, and strategies adopted to achieve a specific vision of society, being pursued by Rahul Gandhi as an alternative to the age old ideology of Congress. Politico-ideological line acts as a (…)

• It is important for the peace movement to emphasize today that the people of Iran and the USA are not at war with each other | Bharat Dogra

  19 March, by Bharat Dogra

  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 to factors beyond their control. This is particularly true in the context of unpopular wars. This is certainly true in the context of the ongoing Iran war.
  According to available data, the Iran war of 2026 has been found in polls and surveys conducted among the people of the USA to be the most (…)