2026

December, 29, 2025
It is customary on the part of foreign policy analysts to come up with their own assessments of Indian foreign policy ( IFP) during the year that has gone by. Here is such an attempt at how the practitioners of foreign policy played their role in 2025. Before getting down to such a task, let me enter a controversial terrain as to who and which institutions play their role in such tasks. Theoretically speaking, it is the Prime Minister, the Foreign Minister, the Ministry (…)

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The post-neoliberal system is characterised by transactional diplomacy, bilateralism, and pragmatism, rather than ideology. Therefore, the term "Cold War" is insufficient for understanding today’s international political economy. Additionally, the emergence of the capitalist mode of production in a post-neoliberal and neorealist paradigm has eliminated ideological divides in the contemporary world. A new aspect of neorealism involves using economic sanctions to influence a (…)

Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan in his article ’ The VB -Ram G Act 2025 fixes structural gaps in HinduDec24,2025 written like a tutorial by MA student in clumsy language that binary model or welfare vs development in the law. No explanation for removal of the right based law like MGNREGA which is appreciated by workers and scholars. Minister needs to explain what are the reasons for striking down the important labour law related to rural India. He is unable to defend new law . It (…)

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The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), enacted in 2005, aimed to address unemployment and poverty in rural India by providing the right to work. It emerged as one of the keystones of the welfare scheme in rural India. Despite considerable gains in employment generation, poverty reduction, and gender inclusion, the scheme has faced steady challenges, including delayed payments, inefficient implementation, misappropriated funds, and fiscal stress. (…)

For the past few months, the Union Home Minister Amit Shah has repeatedly announced that Naxalism will be completely eradicated from tribal-dominated states by 31 March 2026. Such authoritarian declarations by the central government, made under an imperialist agenda, are a direct threat aimed at seizing control over water, forests, and land in tribal areas and, in effect, wiping out Adivasi communities. These announcements are themselves unconstitutional and a blatant violation of the United (…)

Press Release
23rd Dec. 2025
The following statement was issued to the press by the Joint Platform of Central Trade Unions (CTUs) and Sectoral Federations / Associations today

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Women and Gardens: A History from the Victorian Era to Today
by Judith M. Taylor
University of New Mexico Press
2025. Illustrations. 218 pp.
(paper), ISBN 978-0-8263-6783-9.
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Reviewed by Sarah Bilston (Trinity College)
Judith M. Taylor

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