Politics

What I’ve learned from Noam Chomsky

As news of Noam Chomsky's failing health makes the rounds, a journalist and peace activist from Pakistan shares some of…

6 months ago

Modi’s grip on power slips with resounding personal defeat

The people of India have rejected Narendra Modi's majoritarian Hindu politics. Even if Modi's coalition returns him to power, his…

7 months ago

Polls will test Modi’s politics of Muslim exclusion

Aspiration of an inclusive India has been under threat in the Modi regime.

7 months ago

Female voters are a growing force and the parties know it

India’s politicians recognise the growing influence of women at the ballot box but their schemes to win their votes come…

7 months ago

Is Hamas attack on Israel helping the BJP on the ground?

A month before the voters punched their preference in the Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) during the assembly elections in Rajasthan,…

7 months ago

Will regional parties stop the Modi juggernaut?

The battle for India is being fought in the states as the general election turns local

7 months ago

Red alert: How cinema helps the Modi myth

Cinematic fiction has become the convenient way of ‘correcting’ historical frictions, especially where facts are inconvenient

7 months ago

How big money finances Indian politics

The business elite funds political parties and elections in return for economic favours or for securing favourable policies for their…

7 months ago

How news gatherers can respond to social media challenge

Print and electronic media are coping admirably with the upheavals being wrought by social media.

8 months ago

Live-in lover law opens door to attacks on freedoms

Whimsical and capricious behaviour by public officials is not the sign of a democratic polity, but an absolutist one. The…

9 months ago