Bihar has one of the highest concentrations of working people and marginalised communities in the country, many of whom are under-documented and live in conditions that make it impossible to maintain ...

In effect, Netanyahu has been strutting around the globe on the strength and assurance of the United States of America (USA), which is not just supplying the most modern and sophisticated arms, ...

What We Expect Queerness to Look Like There is a certain script that many people—especially allies, scholars, and supporters—have grown used to. It often goes like this: a person discovers they are ...

Twenty-one Months of Draconian Rule; Author: Sebastian Joseph; Publishers: Konark; Pages: xiii + 365; Price: Rs 450 Many in the Congress today murmur, some more than the others, that Indira Gandhi ...

India’s Constitution is more than a legal document. It carries the values of the freedom movement and the dreams of its makers. Two of its core principles - socialism and secularism are not foreign ...

Rooted in Michel Foucault’s analysis and deepened by Giorgio Agamben’s radical meditations, biopolitics refers to the exercise of power over life itself—over bodies, populations, and the biological ...

The expulsion of Uganda’s Asian population, estimated at seventy thousand, was announced in August; we were given three months to leave. Around twenty thousand had Ugandan citizenship. Roughly the ...

Religion, specially institutional religion always enjoys an advantage of having immunity from any sort of changeability as to its beliefs, practices and rituals. Hence, creationism hardly would have ...

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(Author: Richa Walia, Associate Professor, Centre for Gender Studies, Institute for Development and Communication (IDC), Chandigarh, India) ...

How things hang together or balance each other is the dilemma of the amphibian we are talking about. How best to balance the needs of the self and urge it to go beyond. Focusing on the central theme ...

To criticize the criteria and methods of the Russian communist party, to shed light on the errors and the horrors of the Bolshevik government – that we regard as our duty and our right, because in the ...