Interview with Thol. Thirumavalavan, VCK leader.

The book is an outstandingly able study of preventive detention the like of which has not appeared in India.

Mamata Banerjee returns to power with a massive mandate. The Trinamool Congress wins 211 out of the 294 Assembly seats, while the Left-Congress allian

Interview with Digvijay Singh of the Congress.

In a State that values its secular political traditions, voters rally behind the Left Democratic Front because of its consistent stand against divisiv

Interview with film-maker Goutam Ghose, currently working on Lala, an Indo-Italian venture.

Nepal’s liberation from self-serving opportunistic politicians cannot even begin until the issue of federalism and justice to the Madheshis is dealt w

Interview with Surjya Kanta Mishra, Polit Bureau member of the CPI(M) and secretary of the party’s West Bengal unit.

Interview with Sitaram Yechury, CPI(M) general secretary.

A close look at the often unseen and unacknowledged but thrillingly unpredictable processes that go into the making of magical images and sounds on sc

As Karnataka reels under a severe drought, social and economic divides undermine the little relief that the government has provided.

Pakistan, which has never apologised for the crimes committed by its army personnel during the 1971 Bangladesh war, continues to oppose the trials tha

Regional parties retain their importance in national politics as Mamata Banerjee and Jayalalithaa score back-to-back victories, the BJP and the Left g

London is agog with celebrations marking 400 years of William Shakespeare. The Globe’s adaptation of “Hamlet” returns for its final performances afte

Donald Trump has awakened the class animosity of white workers, but real change is not possible through him. A Trump presidency would be dangerous not

This book raises serious questions on the government’s development strategy of large-scale urbanisation without addressing, among other things, “the s

Interview with Om Prakash Mishra of the Congress.

The political drama in Uttarakhand comes to an end with the Harish Rawat government proving its majority in a floor test in the State Assembly after t

Jayalalithaa makes history by returning to power for a second consecutive time in Tamil Nadu.

The Election Commission has put in place an elaborate mechanism, backed by law, to monitor and check the circulation of money to bribe voters, but it

The judgment of the Supreme Court’s two-judge bench upholding defamation as a criminal offence is a setback to free speech jurisprudence.

With its massive electoral victory in Assam, the BJP has made a big leap in the electoral politics of the north-eastern region.

State Crime Records Bureau statistics show that Karnataka has had 13 “honour killings” since 2011, an indication of hardening social identities. There

In all cases that touch on the twin issues of national security and civil liberty, the Supreme Court’s judgments are short on legal analysis and rich

Interview with BJP vice president Vinay Sahasrabudhe.

The Marxist concept of the free press, as enunciated forcefully and at length by Marx himself, is not to be confused with the vitiated role of a nomin

The Philippines has elected a President who not only is a grass-roots politician but is also known for his anti-U.S. politics. Balancing ties between

Cairo’s focus on crushing the Muslim Brotherhood has led to a massive crackdown on all forms of civil dissent, whose ramifications can be seen in a di

Researchers of PIK, Germany, claim that their novel method, using the Eastern Ghats and north Pakistan as the “tipping elements”, is better in predict