Foreign Policy

Famines through the ages: Lessons for the modern era

The world stands on the precipice of a humanitarian disaster. Surplus global food production notwithstanding, ~70 million people are likely to be…

7 years ago

The Himalayan Political Fracas

While Nepal’s political transition comes to an end, the complicated game of coalition politics, turncoats and unseemly alliances introduces itself.…

7 years ago

In Cox Bazaar there is a drinking water shortage

In the Rohingya refugee camps the ground water is drying up and there is no clean drinking water left causing…

7 years ago

Referendums and the Idea of a nation

Unions are unequal in nature, Catalonia’s Independence leads to questions about how regions give more than they get Catalonia announced…

7 years ago

Hundred years on is it time for another Revolution?

A further deterrent to any serious commemoration is the bad odour that revolutions have acquired in recent times. Systemic change…

7 years ago

Pakistan’s Economy is On the Brink

An economic crisis looms over the country, with growing deficits. The only respite comes in the form of the China-Pakistan…

7 years ago

Bangladesh economy gains at cost of democratic space: Study

Titled ‘Revisiting the local power structure in Bangladesh : Economic gain, political pain’ a report says that concentration of power by…

7 years ago

Time to rearm Marxist Theory

The major forces in the revolutionary movement were the workers, peasants and soldiers who constituted the overwhelming majority of the…

7 years ago

The relevance of the Russian Revolution of 1917 for India in 2017

  One hundred years after the October revolution, will young India dare to fight the rise of fascism Certainly, it…

7 years ago

How a Paranoid British Raj Spied on Indian Communists

A rich archive of intelligence reports suggests that the October Revolution of 1917 had left the British in India paranoid…

7 years ago