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The expulsion of Uganda’s Asian population, estimated at seventy thousand, was announced in August; we were given three months to leave. Around twenty thousand had Ugandan citizenship. Roughly the ...

India’s Constitution is more than a legal document. It carries the values of the freedom movement and the dreams of its makers. Two of its core principles - socialism and secularism are not foreign ...

Twenty-one Months of Draconian Rule; Author: Sebastian Joseph; Publishers: Konark; Pages: xiii + 365; Price: Rs 450 Many in the Congress today murmur, some more than the others, that Indira Gandhi ...

Rooted in Michel Foucault’s analysis and deepened by Giorgio Agamben’s radical meditations, biopolitics refers to the exercise of power over life itself—over bodies, populations, and the biological ...

To criticize the criteria and methods of the Russian communist party, to shed light on the errors and the horrors of the Bolshevik government – that we regard as our duty and our right, because in the ...

(Author: Richa Walia, Associate Professor, Centre for Gender Studies, Institute for Development and Communication (IDC), Chandigarh, India) ...

How things hang together or balance each other is the dilemma of the amphibian we are talking about. How best to balance the needs of the self and urge it to go beyond. Focusing on the central theme ...

ALIFA condemns the dastardly attack on journalist Sneha Barwe & calls for immediate arrest of assaulter & judicial inquiry. State must take acc ...

NOT EVEN A PRETENSE OF DEMOCRACY. 13 July, 2025 will go down as a dark day in Indian democracy. People from Jammu and Kashmir have been observing this as M ...

Jason Stanley’s “How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them” presents a meticulously researched exploration of the mechanisms by which fascist politics operate within modern democracies. Being a ...

Does Bihar Show the Way? Of course, the perspective was different from the present one. Very recently, the Election Commission of India (EC) has initiated a Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the ...