The mode of conducting the recent assembly elections in West Bengal and its aftermath signify a paradigm shift in the mode of governance. Lakhs of voters lost their voting rights through the process ...

The Meghalaya Socio-Economic Review 2025 seeks to present a comprehensive statistical overview of the state’s developmental trajectory. However, this paper argues that the document fails to meet the ...

The history of the Ambedkarite movement in India has largely been written as a history of its leadership. Its constitutional achievements, its formal organisations and its founding figure are well ...

In a democracy, freedom of speech and expression opens up channels of free discussion of issues. This right plays a crucial role in the formation of public opinion on social, political and economic ...

Under the neocapitalist framework, which prioritizes privatization, commodification, and free-market logic, water creates economic opportunity for capitalist states. No longer viewed as a limitless ...

Tribals or adivasis, as they are popularly known as a symbol of self-assertion, comprise of around 8.2 per cent of the national population. The tribals are concentrated mostly in the central belt of ...

Mr. Modi has been PM of India for the last 12 years. In 2014 the long period of coalition rule at the Center ended and hat was characterized as a period of uncertainty when hard decisions could not be ...

Industrial-scale renewable energy does nothing to remake exploitative relationships with the earth, and instead represents the renewal and expansion of the present capitalist order. Renewable energy ...

The celebration of 100 years of Bollywood needs to be reviewed from a subaltern perspective. The general assumption that cinema is a normal mode to produce anecdotes to satisfy the entertainment ...

The Pacific has re-emerged as the ultimate strategic theater. Its shores are lined with critical global flashpoints and major players, including China — explicitly designated as America’s only ...

One could ask a question whether a heinous crime like murder be classified as “political”. A crime is generally distinguished by the motive behind it. The Oxford Dictionary of Law defines “political ...