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  Review of Jayaramu’s Decoding Indian Politics | Girija K S

  22 May

  [fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
  Decoding Indian Politics by P S Jayaramu
  Writers Choice Publications Pvt Ltd., New Delhi.
  ISBN NO 978-93-49389-02-1
  No of pages: 260
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  This book is a compilation of articles written by Prof. P S Jayaramu, formerly Professor of Political science in Bangalore University. An ardent writer and a scholar of Political science and International relations, Professor Jayaramu has produced many students and has guided scholars, has been (…)

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  Reading Arundhati Roy Against My Will | Disha

  22 May, by Disha

  For most of my life I have read political writing with a sense of duty rather than desire. I read to stay informed, not to feel changed. The books I encountered often seemed to assume a reader who could absorb weight without needing warmth, and I finished them more knowledgeable, but no more connected to the world they described.
  When I picked up the memoir Mother Mary Comes To Me, I expected the same. I did not expect the book to reach the private interior of my reluctance or alter the (…)

• Historiographical singularity and democratic erosion in India | Zeeshan Ashraf

  22 May

  To the vast majority, who thought their past to be multicultural, tragic, and complex, the idea of glorification of the past along with historiographical singularity will always feel stimulating. What it attempts to demonstrate is the glorious achievements of the past and how drastically the deterioration of that position has taken place. This artistic formula has been adopted by almost all authoritarian, fascist, and democratically strained nations. The political leader, in order to appeal (…)

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  Nala Ponnappa cartoon --- No No, No Questions [at] Praise conference

  22 May
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  Documentary: Try me for treason: anti-war protesters

  22 May

• Modi squashes INDIA bloc; Rahul acquiesces | Faraz Ahmad

  12 May, by Faraz Ahmad

  What’s happening in Bengal, the way the Election Commission has not merely facilitated the loot of the Bengal polling but became an unabashed participant in this mayhem and dacoity throughout the state, doesn’t surprise me one bit frankly, as I wrote in my previous piece that even if the Trinamul Congress TMC) were to scrape through by sheer grit, this is no Election when the bulk of voters prima facie suspects in the eyes of the BJP, have been literally weeded out and disenfranchised.
  But (…)

• 2026 Assembly Elections: Results and Their Implications | P. S. Jayaramu

  12 May, by P S Jayaramu

  May 5, 2026
  Results of the much awaited assembly elections held in five States are out throwing up numerous questions about the strengths and weaknesses of the contending Political Parties, their strategies and the implications of the outcome for national and regional politics.
  Let me start my analysis with the smallest of the States, Puducherry first. The contest did not attract much media glaze as it was more or less a forgone conclusion that the NDA would return to power. Mr. (…)

• Reading Jadunath Sarkar in Chaotic Times | Arup Kumar Sen

  12 May, by Arup Kumar Sen

  In the current assembly elections, the BJP has come to power in West Bengal with a landslide victory, defeating its nearest rival, the All India Trinamool Congress (TMC). This is the first time that a party which distinctly preaches

• From Mass Line to Managerialism: A Marxist Assessment of the 2026

  12 May, by Jos Chathukulam

  Abstract
  The recent Assembly electoral, 2026 setback of the

• West Bengal Assembly Elections 2026 and the Footfalls of Fascism — A Balance Sheet | Kunal Chattopadhyay

  12 May

  [May 8, 2026]
  by Kunal Chattopadhyay
  The 2026 West Bengal Assembly election was possibly the most important, not just for the province of West Bengal, but with an all India significance. The Bharatiya Janata Party and its allies had found in the 2024 Parliamentary elections that they had gone over the peak and were in a decline. With the bulk of India