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• Palestine on BRICS agenda | Jawed Naqvi

  22 May, by Jawed Naqvi

  AT the heart of the war on Iran is the issue of Palestine. That the BRICS foreign ministers

• Unseating Authoritarian Regime: Lessons from Hungary | Amal Mandal

  22 May

  An overwhelming 70% of seats for the two-year-old Tisza party led by Peter Magyar in the Hungarian parliamentary election 2026 is both momentous and instructive. Besides the drubbing of the 16-year-long entrenched authoritarian Orb

• Public Education in Soviet Russia | Anatoly Lunacharsky (1919)

  22 May

  ‘Public Education in Soviet Russia’ by Anatoly Lunacharsky from Communist International. Vol. 1 Nos. 2, 4, & 6. 1919.
  Aiming at the systematization of every and all state functions, the Soviet has fundamentally changed the competence and character of the government organ that under the old regime bore the name of Ministry of Public Education.
  1) This ministry formerly confined its activity chiefly to schools. A whole series of highly important cultural institutions were beyond its (…)

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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. (…)