2026

Imagine

For over a century, the Algebra of Revolution

When I recently finished reading Leor Zmigrod’s book: The Ideological Brain: How Rigid Beliefs Harm our Minds & Bodies and Why it Matters, the book helped me to see the harms I have incurred myself due to my blind adherence to an ideology. I have already realised the damages ideologies do both to the society and the individuals who hold the ideologies, and discarded all kinds of ideologies long ago. But it is Smigrod’s book that helped me to see the pernicious damages the ideologies do (…)

April 26, 2026
Three years into the worst episode of ethnic violence, marked by grave allegations of state failure and complicity, in post-independence India, the Central government is preparing to deploy around 100 battalions of paramilitary forces to the north-east, principally into Nagaland and ravaged Manipur.
Declaring on 31 March 2026 that the Maoist insurgency in central India had been defeated after six decades, Union Home Minister Amit Shah announced the redeployment of (…)

With the passing of Andre Beteille, a scholar who shaped generations of students and devoted more than five decades to research in Indian sociology, we witness the close of a remarkable legacy that was distinguished by an exceptional synthesis of theoretical depth and experiential understanding, firmly grounded in rigorous fieldwork. Beteille

Abstract
This paper examines the crisis of institutional authority in global governance through the lens of the 2026 Iran

Delivering the S.J.V. Chelvanayakam Memorial Oration at Jaffna Central College, the legal scholar and former minister traced decades of missed opportunities for political accommodation. The full text of his address is published below.
JAFFNA, Sri Lanka

Press Statement by AITUC
Date 24.04.2026
The All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC) very strongly condemns the deeply disturbing and anti-worker statement made by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath in a high-level meeting in Lucknow on April 22, wherein he reportedly stated that

All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC)
Press Release by AITUC

NAJAR
NAJAR expresses grave concern over the comments made by Justice S.A. Dharmadhikari at the 2nd NLIU SBA Law Conclave, Bhopal
Glorification of casteist, regressive and unconstitutional texts by a sitting Chief Justice of a High Court is unacceptable and unjust
NAJAR Calls for Public Retraction of Comments by Justice S.A. Dharmadhikari
30th April, 2026: The National Alliance for Justice, Accountability and Rights (NAJAR) expresses grave concern at the comments[1] made on 12th (…)