3+ day, 9+ hour ago   (863+ words) There is a problem with political writing. There is too much of it. People write essays explaining why the world is insane. Others read them and nod solemnly because they already know the world is insane. Then somebody writes another…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (1476+ words) Tamil Nadu provides one of the most significant examples of this process. Its long history of resistance to the compulsory promotion of Hindi and its insistence on the continued use of Tamil and English have shaped both state policy and…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (727+ words) I. Introduction: Who Controls the Party? II. Mao, Stalin and Contradictions under Socialism III. Deng Xiaoping and the Development of Productive Forces IV. The 2008 Crisis and China’s Three-Stage Development Strategy V. Xi Jinping’s Reassessment of the Deng Legacy The first objective concerns the Party…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (339+ words) The recent decision by the Madras High Court in order to look at the wider issue of “waste colonialism”, which is the practice of wealthy countries transferring their waste disposal responsibilities to poorer ones by claiming that they are engaged…...

5+ day, 5+ hour ago   (797+ words) Human civilisation has always enjoyed a trial. The Greeks had the agora, medieval Europe the pillory, revolutionary Paris the tribunal, and Victorian Britain the scandal sheet. We have improved on all of them. Our courtroom fits inside a pocket, stays…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (891+ words) As authoritarianism, military tensions, and temperatures rise, it is easy to look at the end of the world as we know it and ask what the point of academia is. However, as I return home from a 3-day conference of…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (712+ words) The material in this book covers the years 1947 until May 2025. Although this material was presented in one book, I think it should have been broken in two; and I’m going to utilize this approach when reviewing the book. Making this…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (239+ words) Bhabani Shankar Nayak is a political commentator Recent reports indicate that PM Modi is being worshipped as a god at several locations—both inside existing temples and outside them—and a "Modi Mandir" is currently under construction plan in… The…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1323+ words) “We have built our house in the middle of the road.” This phrase is attributed to the Serbian geographer Jovan Cvijić in describing the Balkans a region which, because of its geography and history, has long been a crossroads of…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (384+ words) Government and allied authorities in Mumbai are widely being seen as a major threat to people’s lives, their open spaces,they are grabbing public spaces in a city known the world over for shortage of such spaces.. There is also…...