2025

Rise of rightwing politics all over the world has been encouraged by USAID, be it Egypt or India. Remember the funding of the Banana Republics? The famous American story writer O Henry coined the phrase more than a hundred years ago to describe the fictional Republic of Anchuria in the book

Following a warrant issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC), former Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte was arrested on March 11 in Manila. This is in relation to his so-called war on drugs following which he faces charge of

Amartya Sen’s beautifully written autobiographical book, At Home in the World,[[Amartya Sen, Home in the World: A Memoir (Penguin Press, London 2021; American edition, New York 2022); cited below as

The Editor’s Guild of India
Press Statement
March 12, 2025
The Editors Guild of India expresses grave concern over reports of the arrest of Hyderabad-based journalist Ms. Revathi Pogadadanda by the city’s cybercrime police early on Wednesday morning.
Ms. Pogadadanda was reportedly taken from her home, along with her husband, at the crack of dawn. It is believed that this action followed the publication of a video on her YouTube channel, in which a farmer criticized the state chief (…)

[fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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Birth of an Alternative Development Paradigm: Unfolding Transformative Mode of Production
by Sunil Ray
Germinal Publications Pvt. Ltd (Sharmistha Dutta on behalf of Germinal Publications Pvt. Ltd), Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
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Birth of an Alternative Development Paradigm: Unfolding Transformative Mode of Production by Sunil Ray introduces to us a novel development framework

* Toxic Masculinity & Backlash Against Women

Fifty years after the Committee on the Status of Women in India submitted its report

Remarks at the valedictory session of the three-day international conference

Navigating societal double standards in twenty-first century India, such as, Ladkon se galtiyan ho jaati hain and Ladkiyon ko chup rehna chahiye (Boys err, Girls should shut up), is a hazardous task even today. In this ancient land of Ardhanarishwara, Devi worship and temples adorned with erotic sculptures, Kinnars, Gandhavas (legally considered female) , Ganika

I first met Krishna Thapar in Chandigarh. She was a diminutive woman dressed in a white salwar kameez and dupatta, with a face that was wrought with exquisite lines as she had witnessed the most excruciating pain. Her father Achint Ram Thapar had raised her cousin, Sukhdev, whose father Ram Lal Thapar died when he was only three. Sukhdev had been hanged by the British along with Bhagat Singh and Rajguru. However, little or nothing is known about the women who supported Sukhdev. Krishna ji (…)