The post-colonial state administration & executive authorities strove to implement these lofty goals with some success, giving us universal adult franchise & a system of Electoral democracy, right to ...

Tribals or adivasis, as they are popularly known as a symbol of self-assertion, comprise of around 8.2 per cent of the national population. The tribals are concentrated mostly in the central belt of ...

The celebration of 100 years of Bollywood needs to be reviewed from a subaltern perspective. The general assumption that cinema is a normal mode to produce anecdotes to satisfy the entertainment ...

Blood-curdling screams, spine-chilling blood-bath and heart-rending mass killings—these are an integral part of life in the Kaimur hills of Rohtas district in Bihar. With untamed dense forests, rain ...

The New India, like the old one, is a land of miracles. Western visitors admired Indians for walking on water and the rope-trick. Now, they love its Nonbiological Being (NB) who claims in human voice ...

In an era increasingly defined by data, the boundaries between surveillance for security and infringement of civil liberties have grown dangerously thin. Nowhere is this more evident than in India’s ...

Like his father Lalu Yadav, his younger son, the leader of opposition Tejashwi Yadav took to aggressive posture and announced headline-grabbing promises for the voters even before Bihar INDIA bloc ...

The resignation letter of the first General Secretary of the CPI(M), P. Sundarayya’s ‘My Resignation’ came up for discussion recently in a social media exchange in another context. As it happens, this ...

(This article is in two parts. Part One gives an overview of how steel production has scaled new heights in Odisha as India becomes the second largest steel producer in the world. It is almost twenty ...

Over the past three-and-a-half centuries, the principles and practices of the Westphalian Treaty (1648) gradually spread from Europe to the rest of the world. The Westphalian order assumed a vital ...

In 1964, after the sudden death of Pandit Nehru, Sheikh Abdullah returned from Pakistan, cutting his journey short. I went to the Delhi airport to receive him. After landing, he told me to take him ...

How do you rate a society that treats women so shabbily that they are branded as whores and prostitutes simply for playing football? And what can you say about a country where the male head of the ...