The revanchist government of the day was clearly canny enough to understand that removing Mahatma Gandhi’s name from the rural employment guarantee scheme…

Who does not know that Gandhi has always been a thorn in the side of the right-wing for having defined swaraj as the…

Throughout history, women have played crucial roles on both global and local levels. They have fought for rights, participated in governments, led…

The year 2025 witnessed escalated threats from the United States on the Global South. In the span of months, Washington declared Venezuelan airspace “closed…

There is this difference between Donald Trump and Narendra Modi: during his electioneering for the United States’ presidency, Trump had forthrightly declared,…

“What is in a name?” The great Shakespeare had Juliet pose this question, suggesting that names might be delicate shells we can…

Notice the example the Election Commission of India is setting for wishy-washy democracies of the world. The electoral process must be enforced…

On the 26th day of November, 2025, as we celebrated “Constitution Day,” two very opposed signals about the republic invited us to…

In an unsurprisingly puerile Ramnath Goenka Lecture, Narendra Modi has re-invoked the favourite cultural hobby-horse of the “indigenous,” upper caste, North-Indian elite. By…

In yet another peroration on the occasion of the centenary celebrations of the RSS, Shri Mohan Bhagwat, with characteristic balance and good…