2026

On second of February US President Donald Trump announced that US and India have reached a trade deal under which India will stop buying oil from Russia and tariffs on Indian exports will be slashed from 50 to 18 percentage points, while Indian tariffs (customs duty) will come down to zero percent on all American goods. Our Commerce minister Piyush Goyal waited till evening on that day to applaud the announcement though the its terms were not disclosed fully and kept in secrecy. (…)

As the winter set in Delhi so did the smog, like every year for past many years though this year seems to be the longest and worst in terms of the AQI. The smog is more stubborn, the haze too visible and black to be ignored, it now can even be seen and felt indoors. Photos clicked by our phones capture the haze-depicting the pervasiveness of air pollution in Delhi. The Govt. response seem far too little and late to deal with Delhi

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When I entered a classroom of Vidyavanam (a primary school in Andhra Pradesh), I noticed four tables arranged in the room. Students from different grades were sitting together, with no strict seating arrangement, engaging in various activities. Some were playing, others were working on some tasks. There was no designated place for the teacher to sit. At one of the four tables, the teacher was guiding a few students to do an activity. Suddenly, one student, who was playing when the teacher (…)

The RSS/BJP Government of India started to take several steps to change the basic structure of the present political system in the light of the Hindutva thesis proposed by their father of the modern nation, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar. Savarkar’s main thesis in his book Essential of Hindutva though appears to be anti-Muslim and anti-Christian, its hidden agenda is to arrest the Shudra/OBC/Dalit/Adivasi liberation in the post-colonial India. It were the ancestors of these people who built this (…)

Abstract
This paper critically examines India

Preobrazhensky explains elements of the New Economic Policy to members of the International in the daily newspaper of the Third Congress,

Communist Party of India Ajoy Bhavan, New Delhi
February 10, 2026
Press Release
The National Secretariat of the Communist Party of India issued today (February 10, 2026) the following statement:
The Communist Party of India has moved the Supreme Court of India through Annie Raja, National Secretary of the CPI, seeking urgent judicial intervention against the repeated hate speeches and conduct of Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma. The CPI submits that a continuing pattern of (…)

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BOOK REVIEW
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High Voltage: Hydroelectric Development and Political Power in Peru
by Gonzalo Romero Sommer
University of Nebraska Press
2025. 298 pp
(cloth), ISBN 978-1-4962-3512-1.
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Reviewed by Henk-Jan Dekker (Bielefeld University)
It is quite common for historical accounts of electrification to focus either on urban or rural electrification. The relationship between the two and the ways urban-rural relationships are defined and reconfigured in the process of (…)