Viewed from such a perspective, the decision of the present government to send all-party delegations to key capitals, including those which are and are likely to become non-permanent members of the UN ...

How Chasing White Voters in the South Changed American Politics by Angie Maxwell and Todd Shields. Oxford University Press: ...

This paper explores why civilisational states exhibit cooperative values in trade and exchange. It highlights an irony where the decline of liberal states might have been expected to weaken trade ties ...

Latest news 7 September 2022 Announced: Mainstream, VOL 60 No 39-42 September 17 - October 8, 2022 - 4 Week Bumper issue Please take note: A bumper edition of Mainstream is to appear on Sept 17, 2022, ...

Ever since India gained sovereign independence in 1947, election campaigns have been a regular affair with various political parties putting forward their candidates, policies and programmes to try ...

Immediately, 2 billion people around the world were labelled as ‘underdeveloped’, and it was a call from the global north to pursue development in the global south. This article seeks to analyse the ...

Channels commonly labelled as ‘Godi media’ in local parlance have prioritised ratings over responsibility, thus eroding their credibility forever. During this conflict escalations, some of the ...

The liberal democratic apparatus has been imploding, and the more I think about the lying world order [1], the more I am convinced from global to provincial that beneath the facade of democracy is an ...

The elections in India, Turkey and the US in 2024 point to the rapidly shrinking liberal political space in democracies. Despite the enormity of the threat to a secular and inclusive vision of ...

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 ...

For a person nurtured in the RSS culture it was not possible to share the euphoria touched off by the advent of independence. All the more so in Punjab which was bearing the brunt of partition. I did ...

The discussion on gender inequality has always been a never-ending topic. Although technology has advanced across various fields, with the rise of service sectors and the AI generation reaching its ...