Our Nation, Our Constitution: A Layperson’s Understanding
This article is an attempt to enthuse readers to make a more careful reading of our nation’s primary document, the Constitution, the Song of India.
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Lakshadweep: The New Administration’s Call and the Impending Ecological Crisis
This article is an attempt to bring forth the ecological and environmental disasters that await over a fragile ecosystem, as a consequence of the new rules and regulations of the recently appointed administrator of Lakshadweep, Praful Khoda Patel.
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Holbrooke’s Revenge: How Modi Led the Americans Back into Kashmir
The ending of autonomy in Kashmir reconstituted a conflict that was politically frozen in many ways for decades and has set it off in directions that can increase Washington’s diplomatic costs in the region.
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Pew Survey on Religion Shows Indians are Hypocrites
The claim of Indians that they respect all religions does not square up with their attitudes towards religious communities to which they do not belong.
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The Cinematograph Act Always Gave the Govt Too Much Power. That’s Why We Challenged it.
As we stand at the intersection of freedom and state control, the judiciary is the only hope. Though that hope has also faded in recent years, our challenge is to not give up the Sisyphean fight to set governmental authoritarianism at naught.
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Let’s Have Some Power with Our Pride
Every civilised country grants dignity, rights and protection to citizens regardless of identity. It is about time India does so too. For this, it is important that LGBTQIA+ leaders enter electoral politics because without political power their pride will always be challenged.
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Geopolitics, Profit, and Poppies: How the CIA Turned Afghanistan into a Failed Narco-state
The COVID-19 pandemic has been a death knell to so many industries in Afghanistan. Charities and aid agencies have even warned that the economic dislocation could spark widespread famine. But one sector is still booming: the illicit opium trade.
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The New Cold War on China
Just as the USA declared a Cold War against the Soviet Union and China in the 1940s-50s, as part of a grand strategy to secure its global hegemony in the immediate post-Second World War era, today it is declaring a New Cold War on China in the interest of maintaining that same imperial hegemony.
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Living on a Sci-Fi Planet
Once upon a time, who could have imagined that humanity would inherit the kinds of apocalyptic powers previously left to the gods or that, when we finally noticed them, we would prove eerily unable to respond?
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The G7’s Tax Reform Could Entrench Global Inequality
The tax proposal decided at the G7 Finance Ministers’ meeting last weekend has been hailed as ‘historic’ and ‘transformative’. But in its present form, it is, unfortunately, neither.
