Politics

April 27, 2022

Dr. Nalin Mehta introduces ‘The New BJP – Modi And The Making Of The World’s Largest Political Party’

MELBOURNE, 26 April 2022: This ‘In Conversation’ Zoom event discussing Nalin Mehta’s recently released book, “The New BJP: Modi and...

February 1, 2022

BOOK REVIEW: Rise of ‘new untouchables’

A new book by two veteran academics, “Gujarat, Cradle and Harbinger of Identity Politics: India’s Injurious Frame of Communalism”, perhaps...

October 13, 2021

Afghanistan tackles the Islamic State

Photo-Wikipedia By Vijay Prasad* On October 8, a terrible blast struck the worshippers attending Friday noon prayers at the Gozar-e-Sayed...

September 18, 2021

NEWS ANALYSIS: Diversity in political representation in Australia a far cry

By Neeraj Nanda MELBOURNE, 18 September: Labor’s Kristina Keneally moving to the safe Labor seat of Fowler, at the cost...

August 14, 2021

Are Bezos and Musk Launching Us Into a New Space Age, or Just a U.S. Space Grab?

By Prabir Purkayastha The space race was once between two countries—the Soviet Union and the United States. It is now...

May 29, 2021

NEWS ANALYSIS: A caring world needs a sharing world to end the COVID-19 pandemic

Photo-ANI, A virus that mutates forever is a perpetual money-making machine for Big Pharma. Everybody else wants the world’s population...

May 21, 2021

8 pharma billionaires increase wealth by $32 billion, ‘enough’ to vaccinate all in India

Cyrus Poonwalla, Pankaj Patel At least nine people have become new billionaires since the beginning of the Covid pandemic, thanks...

April 26, 2021

Anonymous employees’ letter talks of Times Now’s blatant PR in the name of journalism

By Rajiv Shah Veteran economist Amit Bhaduri, who gave up his status as professor emeritus of the Jawaharlal University (JNU)...

February 13, 2021

Reasons I decided to install and uninstall the nationalist Koo. But nothing ideological

By Rajiv Shah The “nationalist” Koo fever appears to have caught up with some Union ministers, BJP politicians, some right-wing...

January 16, 2021

Covid-19 exacerbated pre-existing grievances, stigmas, community divisions: UN study

By Rajiv Shah A recent study, jointly carried out by the UN World Food Programme and the International Organization for...