2024

Time is volatile with newer crises that make the beacon of hope a more challenging pursuit not only in the war-ravaged Eastern Europe or in the Middle East but even the episode of the July rebellion of Bangladesh that torpedoed the Indian peninsula. We don

by Kenan Malik
Both sides believe they have right on their side and use it as an excuse to perpetuate bloodshed

BOOK REVIEW
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Electrifying Indonesia: Technology and Social Justice in National Development
by Anto Mohsin
University of Wisconsin Press
2023. xvii + 245 pp.
(cloth), ISBN 978-0-299-34540-2
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Reviewed by Michael Degani (University of Cambridge)
By the beginning of the twenty-first century, Indonesia

BOOK REVIEW
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Oranweshanathinte katha
by K. Venu
DC Books 2023, 752 pages ISBN: 9789354829383
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Reviewed by Sreejith K
In an iconic scene from Sandesham, which has over the years acquired a cult status amongst the Malayalis for its trenchant political satire, a communist party worker, Sreenivasan, during a pennukaanal (would-be bride seeing), after some perfunctory questions on Marxism to the bewilderment of the girl, asks her whether she would be willing to spend the (…)

In the ongoing war in the Middle East, news that Iran could think of changing its nuclear doctrine is very disturbing but not unexpected. As the situation is developing in the region such adventurous happenings cannot be ruled out. Former Israeli heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu had in January 2024 renewed the call to use nuclear bomb on Gaza. The defence minister of Israel Yoav Gallant

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(Text of the talk delivered by Dilip Simeon on October 2, 2024 at the Gandhi Peace Foundation, New Delhi)
The bane of our life is our exclusive provincialism, whereas my province must be co-extensive with the Indian boundary so that ultimately it extends to the boundary of the earth. Else it perishes

One clear message from Haryana for the resurgent Congress led by Rahul Gandhi is to clear all the dead wood and send the ageing satraps to retirement homes.
First it was Madhya Pradesh where the then Pradesh Congress committee (PCC) president Kamal Nath, even after becoming the chief minister in 2018 won

October 9, 2024
The results of the Assembly elections held in Haryana and Jammu and Kashmir are out. The results have great lessons for all the actors - the Political Parties and their leaders, the stakeholders, mainly the electorate, for the exit pollsters and the media, mainly the electronic media, which were more obsessed with the outcomes than the actual players themselves. I will address these aspects of the takeaways of the elections after a brief look at the electoral battle in (…)

The BJP’s victory in Haryana
After the 18th Lok Sabha elections, the results of the Haryana and Kashmir elections have attracted the attention of the country. The two national parties, the ruling BJP and the opposition Congress, have made the Haryana and Kashmir elections a platform to show their strength. The Congress and the BJP have been trying hard to win in Haryana and Kashmir, and the results have shown a variance from the trends shown earlier via exit polls. Exit polls in both the (…)