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Dismantling India: A 4 Years Report Four years of NDA’s governance with Narendra Modi as Prime Minister has been reviewed and compiled in a report called ‘Dismantling India’. This report was launched on 14 July 2018 at Constitution Club, New Delhi. In this detailed report, there are 24 articles by eminent writers critiquing this government’s…
by David Schultz Democracy across the world is under siege. The latest Freedom House report that documents this for 2017 says, “democracy faced its most serous crisis in decades”, as seventy-one countries experienced declines in freedom or fair government, including the United States, and only thirty-five an improvement. This was the twelfth consecutive year of…
Shujaat Bukhari’s Notebook Shujaat Bukhari Shujaat Bukhari was among the most informed and least exultant Kashmiri journalists I have met. He let his incorrigible smile and straight reporting do the talking. He was shot dead on Thursday evening outside the Srinagar office of the Rising Kashmir newspaper, of which he was editor. There is predictable…
Chavismo: Part V The Party of the Revolution President Maduro holding potrait of Hugo Chavez in a rally The fifth part of a series of seven articles by Marco Teruggi on Chavismo, the ongoing socialist revolutionary project in Venezuela, that the Venezuelans fondly call Bolivarian revolution. The United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV). It represents…
Sukanya Shantha and Ruchira Petkar (Note: This article has been edited by us.) On May 30, around 15,000 villagers – the police had come prepared for around 10,000 protestors – gathered at the Rajiv Gandhi Maidan in Rajapur to demand an uncompromising roll-back of an oil refinery project announced by Fadnavis’s government early last year….
Anil Nauriya The “Nehru Models”: The Historical Nehru Model and the Posthumous Nehru Model In most circles where opinion making on behalf of minorities takes place, one of the reasons for appreciation of Jawaharlal Nehru’s approach towards the minorities generally is his statement that majority communalism, that is, sectarianism, is more dangerous than minority communalism….
The regional parties have again a taken a centre stage in the politics of the country. The assumption that the BJP led by Narendra Modi may politically marginalise the regional forces has come under serious doubt after the results of Karnataka assembly polls and the bypolls across the country. They have demonstrated the re-emergence of…
Earl Bousquet Ever since becoming maximum leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics in 2013, Pope Francis has not minced words to take strong positions on major international issues. But on the eve of a visit to his native South American continental homeland, he was called upon to speak out loudly—and act strongly—against men of…
Marco Teruggi Go for a walk in any humble neighborhood of Venezuela—urban or rural—and you will always find some form of organisation. It never fails. It is no accident, it is a way to cultivate ongoing politics from point zero of the revolution. From the first speeches of Hugo Chavez to his last remarks, the…
Mrinal K. Biswas Forebodings were there. People were wondering as to how much violence would be unleashed in panchayat elections this time in West Bengal. Feared perpetrators were the ruling Trinamul Congress led by the maverick Mamata Banerjee. As was expected, widespread violence marred the elections; nearly 30 people died, and there were hundreds of…
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