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The scholar Pratap Bhanu Mehta has warned us of the Kashmirification of India. He means that the hard police state with few individual rights that India runs in Kashmir is being extended to India. If we observe the events of the recent past it appears...

The agitating farmers’ unions have called off their year-long protest against the Centre’s farm laws and ended their stir. The laws have been repealed and the farmers are now heading home feeling victorious. While they may have won over the hearts of the public with...

Jean Pisani-Ferry Twenty years ago, January 1, 2002, citizens of 12 European countries began using new euro banknotes and coins. A larger-than-life project – emblematic of a time when European leaders were bold enough to step into the unknown – thus became a tangible reality....

Robert Williams & Moritz Rudolf European countries are currently divided over whether to join US President Joe Biden’s diplomatic boycott of the upcoming Winter Olympics in Beijing. The episode underscores yet again that when it comes to dealing with China, Europe and the United States...

The decision of 22 farmers’ unions to contest all the 117 seats in the coming Assembly polls in Punjab comes as a big surprise. These were earlier a part of the 32 unions that came together under the banner of Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) to...

A perception has been sought to be created in a crafty, clever way that an elected government that has got the popular mandate to rule must be allowed to do whatever it chooses without any scrutiny of its actions by either its critics or the...

At a time when Left politics is being discredited across the globe, the victory of 35-year-old Left-wing leader, Gabriel Boric, in the presidential election of Chile marks a watershed moment in that country’s politics and holds out new hope for the Left movement globally. A...

Someone observed that the last two years seem as one. We began 2020 with the pandemic and are ending 2021 with it but that’s not the only similarity. Internal turmoil, tension on the border and an economy that was limping since 2017 seem to all...

The Indian Forest Service (IFoS) and forest officers are important but more so in Uttarakhand than anywhere else because of its geography. With Assembly elections looming, the state government cannot afford to have a large section of forest officers feeling disgruntled. The recent transfer of...

Jorge G Castañeda Chile has long been something of a bellwether in Latin America. So, when Chilean voters elected the Left-wing Gabriel Boric, a 35-year-old former student leader, as President Sunday, the rest of Latin America wanted to know: What does this mean for Chile...