The Roaming of Colonial Phantoms and a History of Resource Plunder
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The Roaming of Colonial Phantoms and a History of Resource Plunder

Both the strengths and limitations of early post-independence policies in Africa offer a wealth of lessons for today’s struggles for control over Africa’s resources. The clarity in that period around the importance of African state control over natural resources offers a path forward for contemporary efforts.

Maulana Azad: Founding Father of a Pluralist India, Remembered
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Maulana Azad: Founding Father of a Pluralist India, Remembered

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad was not only a frontline nationalist leader but also one of the architects of modern India. He constantly strived as a minister and as an intellectual to synthesize the Islamic, Indian and the Western ideas into a coherent and single pattern for the newly independent nation.

Democracy, Distance, Difference, and Disrespect
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Democracy, Distance, Difference, and Disrespect

Democracy is the only form of governance that cultivates the arts and crafts of governance at a respectful distance and always aims at the achievement of what the philosopher John Rawls called “overlapping consensus” for “reasonable pluralism”.

India’s New IT Rules Paving Way for Legitimised Surveillance
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India’s New IT Rules Paving Way for Legitimised Surveillance

As the Indian government is confronted with a global snooping scandal with over 300 journalists, politicians and bureaucrats on the list of those surveilled by the state, the Modi government had intensified its bid to rampage through the country’s latest Internet Technology laws.