I read and re-read news reports focusing on the latest findings of the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) and the National Election Watch: A total of 250 candidates in the fray for the second ...

The Naxalite movement, that was born out of the tremors of the 1964 split, has also become weak and moribund. It is against the contemporary reality of the rapidly eviscerating condition of the Indian ...

Dipankar Bhattacharya is the general secretary of the CPI (M-L) Liberation, that is contesting seven Lok Sabha seats. He served as the general secretary of the Indian People’s Front between 1982 and ...

What is of signal importance, if not towering accomplishment, is his contribution to rewriting of history of India in a way that instills a historical sense among the history-less people who were ...

Arun Srivastava. Suddenly, precisely for a week, the media has started writing off, rather disparaging Congress, attributing it as political party having no national perspective a ...

Prime Minister Modi’s statement eulogizing nuclear weapons is flawed ...

The act of writing history and its dissemination is part and parcel of hegemony-building exercise in modern times. Theorising nation and bringing one into existence is wholly predicated on the ...

In the book India vs RSS by Pinarayi Vijayan asserts that the battle for democratic and secular India against totalitarian RSS is winnable. CPI (M) leader Pinarayi Vijayan is the chief minister of ...

There is a saying in Hindi " khisiyayi billi khamba noche " (an angry cat even tries to bite a wooden pole). Having become desparate after realising that he may not be able to achieve the "hat trick" ...

After the abrogation of Article 370, militarization of the Kashmir valley has intensified. The insightful observation made by Michel Foucault long back is substantiated in the context of ...