The strong and consistent Anglo-American tradition of maintaining spheres of influence continued all through the last century and exists still. Yet, a

India weighs rupee trade options with a number of countries, including many non-oil producing ones, to reduce the drain of forex reserves.

The paramilitary forces battle terrorists, insurgents and naxalites and even play a role in the smooth conduct of elections, but it is the fight for d

It is back to the Mubarak era in Egypt as the country is headed for a one-party authoritarian rule after a brief but heady hiatus. Liberal parties tha

Protests build up against Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, but he remains defiant, cracking down on the May Day rally in Istanbul and even indicat

An investigation blows the lid off USAID’s covert Twitter-like platform aimed at destabilising the Cuban government.

The continuation of the ban on SIMI raises questions about the functioning of the tribunal set up under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and t

Interview with S.Y. Quraishi, former CEC.

The alleged abduction and rape of four Dalit girls by caste Hindus escalates tensions in Haryana’s Hisar district, which is already polarised on caste

Interview with H.S. Brahma, Election Commissioner.

The book serves a useful purpose in preserving the revolutionary legacy of Bhagat Singh.

Interview with Praveen Kumar, Chief Electoral Officer, Tamil Nadu.

It took 16 years for the Special Court to convict the accused in the Tsunduru massacre of 1991 in Andhra Pradesh in which eight Dalits were killed. No

The Supreme Court orders a special audit of the properties of the Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Thiruvananthapuram after divesting the Travancore roy

The Election Commission’s helplessness in the face of a campaign against it by the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate, Narendra Modi, and blatant viola

The police are still in the dark about the purpose of or the persons and organisations behind the twin bomb blasts that rocked Chennai Central railway

It is difficult to box Ashok Srinivasan’s stories into a particular genre, but whatever genre one settles on, there is no doubt that the stories are c

The massacre in the villages of the Bodoland Territorial Area is seen by the minority community as yet another attempt by the Bodoland People’s Front

An important collaborative work that cuts across disciplinary boundaries and weaves together visual and textual histories to investigate the dynamics

Israeli intransigence derails the U.S.-brokered peace agreement on a two-state solution, but the Palestinian Authority retaliates with deft political

Interview with Pooran C. Pandey, Executive Director, United Nations Global Compact Network India, on corporate social responsibility.

It is time India moved towards a system of at least partial proportional representation as the present first-past-the-post system often results in ske

Political parties flush with funds provided by corporate houses are winning over journalists, and some news organisations are creating packages for el

Myanmar presents a mixed picture three years after the launch of reforms, and the next presidential election holds the key to which way the country wi

Interview with Dushyant Dave.

The leopard is unique in that it can live in every kind of habitat, including human-dominated landscapes, sugarcane fields, rocky outskirts, evergreen

The Leiden plates provide a glimpse of the story of how a great Buddhist centre of learning and spirituality flourished in Nagapattinam thanks to the

The book, comprising 17 articles, deals with India’s role in the changing global political and economic order and attempts to show how difficult, and