by Zulafqar Ahmed
Politics around the world has been changing dramatically. The extreme Right has risen to power throughout the globe from Donald Trump of the US (2016) to Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines (2016) and from Victor Orban of (...)
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Why Christchurch Attack is a Wake-up Call
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Indian Republic @ 70: Democracy at Crossroads
31 March 2019by Nayakara Veeresha
The decline in global peace has largely been driven by changes in measures related to safety and security. (Global Peace Index, 2014) The Fragile States Index 2018 indicated that internal and external pressures affect the (...) -
Interpreting FRA to Uphold Justice
31 March 2019by Suranjita Ray
On February 28, 2019, in response to a review petition filed by the governments both at the Centre and in Gujarat, the Supreme Court stayed its controversial order of February 13, 2019— to ensure eviction of nearly one million (...) -
It’s the bureaucracy, stupid
31 March 2019THE UTTERLY CRASS AND VULGAR SENSE OF BUREAUCRATIC HUMOUR IN WHAT WAS ONCE BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN
by Somdeb Lahiri
On June 25, 2008 I boarded a flight from Delhi to attend the Second International Conference on Game Theory and Management that (...) -
The Pulwama Attack and its Fallout
31 March 2019by Mahi Pal Singh
The terrorist attack on a CRPF convoy at Pulwama in Jammu and Kashmir on February 14, in which forty personnel of the para-military force were killed, was a brutal, barbarous and cowardly act by an activist of Jaish-e-Muhammad, (...) -
Rhetoric and Reality: How Development Issues will play out in Election Season
31 March 2019, by Bharat DograWhile there is always the possibility of communal or jingoistic issues flaring up at the time of the election season in India, there is no doubt that development issues will also be an important factor. While the overall record of the NDA II (...) -
What is Fundamentalism?
31 March 2019, by Nikhil ChakravarttyFrom N.C.’s Writings
Fundamentalism has become a much-used term today—in politics and in the academia. And there are in vogue various types of the so-called fundamentalists—political, religious and cultural.
But before cataloguing these various (...) -
Prime Ministerial Candidate in a Parliamentary Democracy
31 March 2019by Deeksha Gupta and Anubhav Bijalwan
The practise of declaring the prime ministerial candidate by the political parties before the parliamentary elections is on the rise. The ruling party had declared Narendra Modi as its prime ministerial (...) -
Before terrorists, India has no friends; we are alone
31 March 2019, by T J S GeorgeIMPRESSIONS
Prime Minister Modi had and will continue to have, the backing of all of India in his stand against the terrorists who “made a big mistake” in attacking the jawans in Pulwama. The attack must have given the Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) and (...) -
Grave Economic Crisis in Pakistan — Some Thoughts to Share
31 March 2019by Gouri Sankar Nag and Arpan Bhattacharya
Going by the recent socio-economic indicators, many scholars are now of the view that Pakistan, unless it mends its ways urgently, would soon be gripped by grave economic trouble. The fast depletion of (...)
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