Veteran CPI leader and trade union icon A.B. Bardhan’s (1925-2016) life and career were marked by an intense commitment to the poor and the marginalis

The anti-Tehri dam movement and other voices from the Himalaya.

Liberalisation of the oil sector has enabled private interests to reap huge profits from India’s reserves while top upstream companies like ONGC have

Economic liberalisation has steadily corroded the public sector, allowing private players to acquire valuable assets at low prices and demand extraord

Balaknama, a tabloid run by street children in New Delhi, tells stories of their world in their words, empowering and transforming the lives of thousa

Interview with Tapan Sen, general secretary, CITU.

Interview with G. Sanjeeva Reddy, president, Indian National Trade Union Congress.

Interview with Virjesh Upadhyaya, general secretary, BMS.

The terror attack on the Pathankot Indian Air Force base fails to deter India and Pakistan from continuing the dialogue process in right earnest.

The Supreme Court stay on the Central government’s hasty notification allowing jallikattu, the bull-taming sport in Tamil Nadu, evokes emotional respo

Saudi Arabia’s execution of a prominent Shia cleric causes serious tensions in its relations with Iran and accentuates the sectarian divide in West A

Facebook’s latest offering flies in the face of Net neutrality and is merely another ploy to control information access to millions of Indians.

Militias have had a free run of the country and the entry of the I.S. has only led to a worsening of the violence, arson and mayhem that have been the

A compelling book on the crisis of modern American life in the context of normalisation of mass surveillance and remaining in a state of relentless wa

North Korea’s latest claim of having tested a hydrogen bomb is partly a result of the politics of intimidation practised by the U.S. and South Korea.

An important addition to the documentation of the 2002 Gujarat pogrom, the book deserves a wide readership.

The CPI(M) and the Congress in West Bengal are keen on an electoral understanding to defeat the Trinamool Congress in the Assembly elections, but not

The volume deals with a relatively neglected aspect of the implementation of social legislation enacted by the Centre but turned to political advantag

Though most of the U.N. resolutions on Kashmir have been overtaken by recent events, two that define the contours of the conflict are still relevant:

In the whole debate in India on climate change, the role of protected areas, the only natural tool to mitigate its effects and help us adapt to it, ha

Public sector undertakings play a significant financial and social role in the country's economy and the government has a duty to protect them instead

The Modi regime is trying every trick in the book to weaken banks and pave the way for their privatisation, but the unions are putting up a determined

BSNL has suffered from government decisions that prevented it from buying crucial equipment, which in turn affected its quality of service and caused

Coal India plays a key role in securing the country’s energy needs, but the government is neither taking any step to support it nor addressing the iss

The lifting of the FDI cap in the sector has not increased insurance penetration and has only undermined the unique contributions made by public secto

The Narendra Modi government’s economic policy direction remains unchanged in spite of the BJP’s terrible defeat in the Bihar and Delhi Assembly elect

The promotion of public-private partnerships, which goes hand in hand with the state withdrawing from its responsibility of discharging its basic duti

PSEs such as NTPC have turned in a stupendous performance despite handicaps imposed by a government favouring non-performing private players. Divesti