2025

Predominant actors of International Politics including US, Russia and China are trying to carve out spheres of influence based on hard power and economic heft just like the allied powers did through the Yalta Conference in the post-World War II scenario. The norms and practices of multilateralism and collective security are increasingly relegated to the background. Russian President Vladimir Putin considers assertion of sovereignty by Ukraine is to allow it to move away from Russian sphere (…)

Constitutional Conduct Group (CCG)
We are a group of former civil servants who have served in various capacities in the central and state governments. We owe no allegiance to any political party; our only loyalty is to the Constitution of India.
We are greatly distressed by the grave criminal charges levelled against Ashoka University professor Ali Khan Mahmudabad and his subsequent arrest. Professor Ali Khan was charged for two of his social media posts related to Operation Sindoor. (…)

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As Hindi cinema gradually grapples with questions of caste and representation, three recent books offer compelling

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In Idi Amin’s Shadow:
Women, Gender, and Militarism in Uganda
by Alicia C. Decker
Ohio University Press
2014. 256 pp.
(cloth), ISBN 978-0-8214-2117-8
(paper), ISBN 978-0-8214-2118-5
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Reviewed by Christina Chatzitheodorou (University of Glasgow)
Alicia C. Decker

* Open Letter to Prime Minister Modi: Instead of multiple delegations abroad to push India

Letter to the Readers, Mainstream
No to militarisation of the social atmosphere
A game to politicise the recent military confrontation with Pakistan is in full swing in India. The main player here is the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) that leads the National Democratic Alliance government and its leader Mr Narendra Modi. Large cut outs of Mr Modi dressed in a military uniform have been spotted in many cities as if to market his role in the military operation against Pakistan. A civilian (…)

Given the existence of Democracy, right to freedom of speech and expression is an indispensable concomitant, and hence, must be safeguarded. The Supreme Court order granting interim bail to Ali Khan Mahmudabad, a teacher in the Ashoka University, for his post on

THE late poet and film lyricist Kaifi Azmi described a strange method of writing film songs, which has come to bear a close resemblance to the method in Prime Minister Narendra Modi

Abstract
The UGC Draft Regulations, 2025 seek to supersede the existing UGC 2018 Rules for the Minimum Qualifications for Appointment and Promotion of Teachers and Academic Staff in Universities and Colleges. The 2025 Draft fails to explain or to provide the reasons for bringing up the new regulations. This has given rise to many doubts and apprehensions among the academia about the intent and motivation behind the new draft regulations. Most significantly it widened the trust deficit (…)

by Arun Srivastava
Indeed, bizarre Narendra Modi who believes in the dictum that there are no friends in politics, has become the victim of the intrigues of his best friend Donald Trump. His keeping quiet posture to Trump