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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.

Red Sea Turmoil

The Red Sea is a narrow inland sea corridor between the Arabian Peninsula and Africa. It extends southeast from Suez at Egypt for about 2,000 km to the Strait of Mandeb which connects with the Gulf of Aden and then with the Arabian Sea.

Lenin’s Critics

Karl Marx (1818-83) and Friedrich Engels (1820-95) viewed the 1789 French Revolution as a symbol of the demise of feudalism and inauguration of a bourgeois society which eventually would be dislodged by the socialist revolution.

Tax reforms

Australia, like much of the world, finds itself navigating turbulent economic waters. In a bid to ease the financial strain on citizens, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced a bold move to reshape tax cuts, a decision that has sparked both support and controversy.

Robust response

In a strategic move echoing its growing capability and commitment to global stability, India has deployed an unprecedented naval force east of the Red Sea to counter the resurgence of piracy.

A time for us all to reject negativity

While India is celebrating an upward trajectory of economic growth combined with ecstatic euphoria through the inauguration of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya it would be foolish to remain oblivious to the upheavals of a tottering civilization.