By Ruth Milkman LONDON: Michael Burawoy had three lifelong passions. The first was English football, specifically Manchester United, the team he supported from childhood and to which he remained loyal for the rest of his life. The other two were Marxism and sociology, into which he poured his prodigious...
By T N Ashok WASHINGTON: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit the United States is more significant than ever at a time when the geo-political situation is fast changing, and new leaders take over in many countries. Modi’s scheduled meeting with US President Donald Trump on Thursday in White...
By Arun Srivastava US President Donald Trump welcomed Prime Minister Narendra Modi with a warm hug at his Oval Office in the White House on Thursday while describing Modi as a “great friend” for a long time and saying that they decided to take a big leap in broad-basing...
By Sushil Kutty Watch out for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s swag when he returns from the United States after his meeting with President Donald Trump. That is, if Prime Minister Modi doesn’t do a mid-air transfer to an F-35, which President Donald Trump agreed to give to India in...
By Rabindra Nath Sinha KOLKATA: The Bharatiya Janata Party’s top leadership failed to see the writing on the wall last year when the Congress bagged both the Lok Sabha seats in Manipur, defeating BJP’s candidate for the Inner Manipur constituency and its ally Naga People’s Front’s nominee for the...
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The President of India was obliged to impose President’s Rule in Manipur on February 13, 2025, for the 11th time in the last 57 years. It is in itself a manifestation of the political uncertainties under which the strife-torn Manipur has been suffering. President’s Rule...
By Rahil Nora Chopra The political activity in Patna is heating up since the Delhi assembly results have been announced. Several National Democratic Alliance (NDA) leaders of Bihar and those at the national level have claimed with complete confidence that Bihar is the next state where the saffron party...
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Congress-led United Democratic Front(UDF) is trying to extract political mileage from the human-wild animal conflict raging in the State. As part of the agitation, the UDF launched a dawn-to-dusk hartal in Wayanad on February 13. This is the second hartal in the district in...
By Ben Chacko LONDON: UK’s Labour Government pledged on Thursday to pour more money and arms into the Ukraine conflict even as the prospect of peace emerged this week. Turning his back on US President Donald Trump’s negotiations, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said Britain would continue to “ramp...
By Chauncey K. Robinson NEW YORK: It is fitting, for a variety of reasons, in these current political times that we have a new film instalment of a superhero with a long history of fighting against fascism and Nazis. While Sam Wilson has had the Captain America mantle for...
By P. Sudhir The BJP has won the Delhi assembly election with a tally of 48 seats, polling 45.6 per cent of the vote. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) won 22 seats getting 43.6 per cent of the vote. The difference between the two was only 2 per cent...
By Arun Srivastava How far the RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat would succeed in his mission to rejuvenate the saffron ecosystem and rejuvenate the cadres in West Bengal, who have been feeling disconsolate and crestfallen due to the intense factional feud in the state BJP, is not yet clear, but...
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The political crisis into which INDIA bloc allies in Maharashtra had fallen after humiliating defeat in the Vidhan Sabha election in the hands of NDA, seems to have deepened. Shiv Sena (UBT) made a direct political attack on NCP(SP) supremo Sharad Pawar, and NCP(SP) responded...
By Sushil Kutty Our Supreme Court is a fountainhead of stories. Even run-of-the-mill non-court reporters often court courts for stories to escape the spectre of a story-less days. Some of the stories are really interesting. Like, on February 12, there was the story of the Supreme Court observing that...
By Krishna Jha In the appointment of vice-chancellors at state universities, the UGC Draft Regulations grant more power to the chancellor. Governors, appointed by the centre, are the ex-officio chancellors of state universities. It is almost a road block for the field of education to evolve further. It is...
By Ajay Kumar It has been 67 days since Justice Shekar Yadav of the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad made a speech to members of the legal cell of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, a Hindu right wing organisation. In his speech on the Uniform Civil Code, which he...
By K Raveendran Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s call for greater emphasis on the Global South in the evolving world order shaped by artificial intelligence is a strategic proposition. With AI becoming the most critical technological force of the 21st century, it is imperative that developing nations, particularly those in...
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Delhi has 12 Vidhan Sabha seats reserved for Scheduled Caste, and BJP has been able to win 4 of them in the recently concluded election after a decade. Since 8 Vidhan Sabha seats have been won by AAP, the BJP is aware of the danger...