2026

Banning The Voice of Hind Rajab threatens freedom of expression in India and Israel
We are, variously, Israelis, Indians, filmmakers, journalists, academics and activists. We write in support of pluralism, democracy and freedom of expression in India and in Israel

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Naturekind:
Language, Culture and Power Beyond the Human
by Melissa Leach, James Fairhead
Princeton University Press
2025. 272 pp.
(paper) ISBN 978-0-691-27066-1
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Reviewed by Louise Westling (University of Oregon)
Melissa Leach and James Fairhead offer a bold new perspective of

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Marx in the Anthropocene
Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism
by Kohei Saito, University of Tokyo
Cambridge University Press
15 January 2023 | ISBN: 9781108933544
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Uncovering the Ecologist in Marx: Kohei Saito

* Questions to Narendra Modi: What

The special intensive Revision (SIR) of the voter list on the eve of the assembly elections in West Bengal has generated great fear among the Bengali migrants. The Telegraph reported (March 22, 2026) in this context:

FIVE INDIAN STATES go to the hustings in April 2026, amidst a huge tussle going on between federalism and unitarianism. This makes these assembly elections crucial to the survival of our constitutionally mandated federal structure. Election watchers need to also keep in mind that these will be the last assembly elections with existing population numbers, assembly seats will be re-determined after the next census. Populations of southern States will be much lesser than the northern States, (…)

March 24, 2026
I would like to ask some questions to Narendra Modi, who is coming to Kerala as a campaigner for the BJP candidate. It is not without remembering that he was not ready to answer the questions of the media during his tenure as the Prime Minister. When you were the Chief Minister of Gujarat in 2007, your face, which trembled before the questions of the brave journalist Karan Thapar, asked for a drink of water and ended the interview halfway, is still fresh in memory as if it (…)

Abstract
In a democracy, Citizens are the sovereign and sole authorities. By the way of elections, citizens choose their representatives who can voice their needs and aspirations in the Parliament/Assembly. Most of the democratic nations have electoral laws that bans/prevents the entry of candidates with criminal offences charges/background. In certain democracies, the disqualification of elected representative applies after framing the charges by the investigative agency or conviction by (…)

Political parties have always attempted strategies to consolidate the support of particular communities to remain in power in a democracy. Over the years we have seen that several political parties and their affiliated institutions have capitalised on the religious values, beliefs, traditions, and practices not only to win elections but also to gain legitimacy and exercise control. We see increasing allegations of religious conversions and cow slaughter resulting in troubling patterns of (…)

The ongoing US-Israeli invasion on Iran has entered the fourth week. In the beginning of invasion, aerial carpet bombing and assassination of supreme leader Khamenei