More ‘Moditva’
THE impressive logistics of India’s national elections inspire considerable international coverage. This year, the process initiated last Friday will culminate at the start of June, and the potential electorate includes…
Musk projects his hard-right influence in Europe
He demanded new elections in Britain, promoted Germany’s far-right, blasted the European Commission — and that’s just the start. Elon Musk is pushing the hard right in Europe, where progressives…
Some US Sikhs fear Modi government is threatening, surveilling and doxxing them
As a physician specializing in addiction, Dr. Jasmeet Bains, the first Sikh American elected to the California assembly, was used to risky situations. Even so, Bains said she was shocked…
The future is young
Pakistan is one of the youngest countries in the world. At least 62 per cent of its population is below the age of 35. To convert this population bulge into…
One of a kind
ACROSS almost six decades of investigative journalism, John Pilger unsparingly torchlit many of what George W. Bush described as “the darkest corners of the world”, relentlessly exposing the realities edited…
War, media and the West
The Russia-Ukraine conflict has re-emerged as ‘the war of this century’ after the Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, and Yemen wars. But this one differs from all the previous wars. The recent…
The return of proxy wars
The world is in the grip of a proxy war of economics. It has started off as a second cold war in the guise of economic domination. This time, the…
‘Londongrad’: Russia influence under the spotlight in Britain
A long-awaited parliamentary report this week failed to confirm suspicions about Russian interference in British politics, including in the divisive 2016 Brexit referendum. But it laid out the extent to…
Navalny poisoning stirs anger in English city hit by Novichok
A long way from the cauldron of Russian politics, the picturesque city of Salisbury is contending with painful memories and a burning sense of injustice as the nerve agent Novichok…
Ledger book of Modi’s tenure
AAKAR Patel’s book on Narendra Modi took me to an acerbic poem by Gorakh Pandey, JNU’s resident Marxist poet from the anti-Emergency struggle of 1975-77. The pithy lines uncannily capture…
