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Citizen’s Burden

When the government insists that an Indian passport is not proof of Indian citizenship, something more than a legal clarification is at stake.

War and Consent

The most enduring consequence of a war is often not what happens on the battlefield, but what it reveals about the institutions that authorise it.

Plutocracy gone crazy

At its zenith, England was known as a nation of shopkeepers, where trade followed the crown; this was however interchangeable ~ the East India Company accumulated an empire, many times the size of the mother country.

Indian Shakespeare~I

We call him Shakespeare of India. We regard him as the greatest poet and playwright of ancient India. The world recognises him as one of the greatest poets of all time.

An interfaith perspective on Uniform Civil Code

Out of 193 member states of the United Nations only eight countries have a Uniform Civil Code - the United States, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Turkey, Indonesia, Egypt and Ireland.

Democracy alarms

In the sprawling archipelago of Indonesia, where democracy has been a beacon of hope in a region plagued by autocrats and juntas

A pension scheme that is neither social nor secure

Exactly twenty years after it was introduced, the participants in the New Pension Scheme (NPS) are feeling the pinch. Neither the government, nor the trade unions, nor even the beneficiaries - the employees of state and central governments - heeded the economists' hints and analytical advice at that time.

Brave Odyssey

In the shadowy realm of political resistance, Alexei Navalny stood as a beacon of courage, defying the oppressive forces that govern Russia.