Sri Lanka’s main negotiator with the LTTE says a deeply flawed Norway-sponsored peace process, the Tamil Tiger’s intransigence and a bitterly divided political class were to blame for the failure of ...

Caste census has been a consistent demand of the Socialist parties of different hues and OBC organisations in the country ever since the rise of the Mandal movement. The scholarly debate on caste ...

Kazi Nazrul Islam, the revered poet of Bengalis around the globe must be sulking in his grave at the disregard and insult meted out to his famous poem " (Mora eki brinte duti kusum), meaning "two ...

Urmi Bhattacharya, in sympathy with Aditya, reacted sharply to this ’food racism’ and two days after the Palak Paneer incident she and two other Indian students brought Indian food in their lunch ...

Throughout the 20th century, the United States masked its dictatorship by intervening in other countries’ affairs under the pretence of promoting democracy and human rights. Recent actions in ...

Living in and breathing through choked air year after year has become a new normal. Realising that the air is unfit to breathe, citizens have at times gathered at places like India Gate, but instead ...

The pedagogical torture relies on random terror to break the integrity of an entire population and makes it plastic material for the teachings invented by technocrats. The belief that man can do what ...

(Authors: Sandeep Pandey is Secretary General and Mir Shahid Saleem is Vice President of Socialist Party (India). E-mails ids: ashaashram[at]yahoo.com, saleemjourno[at]gmail.com) ...

It is the symptom of the time that Donald Trump is strutting and fretting on the world stage, in his hour of intoxication with the power of the Imperial Presidency, with all hubris at his command.

The ED’s raids on the offices of the Indian Political Action Committee (IPAC), the Trinamool Congress’s political consultancy firm—were timed with surgical precision. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata ...

The post-colonial state administration & executive authorities strove to implement these lofty goals with some success, giving us universal adult franchise & a system of Electoral democracy, right to ...