COMMENT : AAP tsunami decimates the big & mighty in Punjab & …
MELBOURNE, 11 March 2022: Politics can throw up strange situations. But what has happened in Punjab is mind-boggling. The AAP tsunami has decimated the big & mighty. Led by Bhagwant Mann, Kejriwal’s Delhi magic has put the political titans to...
March 8, 2022
Miles’ Law and the War in Ukraine: Where you stand depends on where you sit
ROME, Mar 4, 2022 (IPS) – This aphorism which dates back to the late 1940s points out that one’s position...
January 10, 2022
Understanding modern attacks on Gandhi
Statues of Indian independence leader, Mahatma Gandhi, have been vandalised or removed around the world – but why does his...
June 10, 2016
Indian Civilization Unlikely to have been Characterised by One Religion: Romila Thapar
‘Why can’t we think of civilisation as a process of tracking cultures?’: Historian Romila Thapar Full text of the speech...
December 26, 2015
Book Review : “The Past As Present” By Romila Thapar
By Anil Gokhale The Book to be considered as milestone in Historical writings on Ancient India and its reverberations on...
August 22, 2012
Pakistan: Protect human rights defenders
Pakistan: On 4 July 2012, Farida Afridi, Executive Director of women’s rights organization Society for Appraisal and Women Empowerment in...
April 1, 2012
A reminder to the Sage of Bengaluru
You went to a Catholic college but most Indians must be Naxals, dear Sri Sri, because they went to government...
March 21, 2011
Of integrity and integrated corruption
By Prabhat Shunglu New Delhi: “I come from a poor family. The only asset I possess is integrity.” This was...
February 14, 2011
Walk Like an Egyptian
By Prabhat Shunglu New Delhi: Forty days before anti-Mubarak slogans rented the air at Cairo’s Tahrir Square on January 25,...
January 25, 2011
Deportation of Afghan asylum seekers from Australia
By Farhad Arian Summary This paper aims to critically evaluate a newly signed agreement between the Australian government and the...
August 7, 2010
Rich nations’ farm subsidies help big landlords,companies
By Julio Godoy PARIS, Aug 6, 2010 (IPS) – Subsidies for agriculture in the industrialised countries of the world grew...
November 18, 2008
Obama victory: Will he seize the moment?
By Praful Bidwai New Delhi: The election of Barack Hussein Obama as the President of the United States has electrified...
September 7, 2008
Hindutva’s Violent History in Orissa
BY ANGANA CHATTERJI Anthropologist HINDUTVA’S PRODUCTION of culture and nation is often marked by savagery. On 23 August 2008, Lakshmanananda...
July 30, 2008
Manmohan’s tainted victory faciltates alignment with US
BY PRAFUL BIDWAI Manmohan Singh’s tainted victory facilitates India’s alignment with the U.S. and conservative domestic policies, completing the project...
