17 January 2024
Simultaneous elections can’t possibly work without committing extreme violence to the Constitution.
The committee tasked with examining the proposal for ‘One Nation, One Election’ — in lockstep with the theme of one nation, one (...)
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‘One Nation, One Election’ is a subversive idea based on delusions of monarchical grandeur | Suhit K Sen
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Construction of colonial society it’s Madness in the Story of Dakmunish | Radhakanta Barik
27 January, by Radhakanta BarikTradition has an immense strength of exhibiting humanism but modernity is failing specially colonial modernity. The best example one finds with the dalit communities who exhibit their brotherhood among themselves to their old people. Hindu (...) -
Informal Sector Workers Suffer on Both Sides of the Pollution Debate | Bharat Dogra
27 January, by Bharat DograMany informal sector workers are more exposed to pollution because they work outdoors or else work indoors in polluting conditions. Hence the health risks they face when air pollution levels are high are much higher compared to the risks faced (...) -
Karpoori Thakur: A Centennial Appraisal | Manish Thakur and Nabanipa Bhattacharjee
27 JanuaryAbstract
This short essay brings out some of the key elements that made Karpoori Thakur one of the tallest socialist leaders in Bihar. It discusses some of the important contemporary implications of the politics that Thakur espoused and (...) -
Left Perspectives on BJD’s Temporary Compromise or Permanent Invitation to Hindutva in Odisha | Bhabani Shankar Nayak
27 JanuaryThe Government of Odisha, led by the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) under Chief Minister Mr. Naveen Patnaik, provides massive funding to revive all religious institutions and their practices in the state. These religious initiatives are part of his (...) -
Weaving Threads of Salvation with Pashmina, Par and Vrindavani Vastra | Swaswati Borkataki
27 JanuaryThis is the story of three kinds of weaves that articulate three distinct yet overlapping traditions of spirituality. They come from three diverse spatial backgrounds: the Pashmina shawl from Kashmir and its adjoining areas, the Vrindavani (...) -
Privacy and Publicity: Consumer culture and identity in United States | Sunita Samal
27 January, by Sunita SamalAbstract: The lady or gentleman is the person who only carries out work with the help of ‘destruction’. Human works can be summed up in two actions: destruction and construction. The more the work is nothing other than destruction, the more it is (...) -
The necessity of equality | Harry Shutt
27 JanuaryOctober 24, 2023
Taken together, recent postings on this blog have pointed to the conclusion that the long-term global survival of human civilisation requires that
global economic growth must be eliminated if not reversed, and
the (...) -
Electoral uncertainty casts a shadow over Sri Lanka’s progress | Neil DeVotta
27 JanuaryJanuary 25, 2024
If 2022 ranked as Sri Lanka’s worst-ever economic year, 2023 was relatively stable. The government, headed by President Ranil Wickremesinghe, negotiated with creditors and secured an Extended Fund Facility (EFF) program with the (...) -
An Open Letter from Foreign Correspondents Based in India in Defense of French Journalist Vanessa Dougnac | Jan 26, 2024
27 JanuaryJan 26, 2024
We the undersigned foreign correspondents based in India express our deep concern over an official notice given to our colleague, Vanessa Dougnac, which warns of the impending withdrawal of her Overseas Citizen of India (OCl) (...)
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