Is representation enough in politics?
One of the significant moments that defined the structure of political representation in India was the 1932 Poona Act. It was about B.R....
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- Dec 24, 2019
- 4 min
Curfewed Nights – Part II
The protests and the violence along with it spread like wildfire. To make matters worse we had Akhil Gogoi, leader of the Krishak Mukti...
- Dec 24, 2019
- 6 min
Curfewed Nights – Part I
There was an easiness in the winter breeze that blew on December 8, 2019. I say that because nature always has its way of indicating...
- Dec 17, 2019
- 4 min
Dude, You Can’t Just Shut Down the Internet in 2019
If liberal democracy has been the most successful political idea of the last 400 years, then the internet and social media more...
- Dec 14, 2019
- 2 min
The World’s Guilt
The following is a speech from the movie Judgement at Nuremberg (1961) delivered by the character Hans Rolfe played by Maxmilian Schell....
- Dec 11, 2019
- 3 min
Fear and Loathing in Assam
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the...
- Dec 10, 2019
- 1 min
Noam Chomsky: For India, a hard struggle, but a necessary one
As the country comes to terms with the passing of the Citizenship Amendment Bill, renowned political scientist and linguist Noam Chomsky...
- Nov 6, 2019
- 2 min
Donald Trump and the Banality of Evil
It is not surprising that Donald Trump is facing impeachment proceedings. It is surprising that he is finally facing impeachment...
- Aug 11, 2019
- 4 min
Parag Das and the Search for Assamese Identity
In contemporary history of Assam, Parag Das is the most important thinker and activist who provided the ideological foundation for...
- Aug 9, 2019
- 2 min
A Tale Of Two States
For a state so strategically situated and so economically vital, Assam has rarely ever found itself sharing any common history with the...
- Jun 3, 2019
- 14 min
The Hindutva Rhetoric: History, Memory and Learnings
The Bharatiya Janata Party has done it again. Led by the popularity of Narendra Modi, it has once again won a majority in the Indian...
- May 31, 2019
- 5 min
Andrew Breitbart’s Hate Machine
The following is a hilarious excerpt from Bob Woordward’s recent book, Fear: Trump in the White House: In August 2010, six years before...
- May 30, 2019
- 5 min
The TIMEs They-are-a-Changin’
To be fair to TIME Magazine, they, while putting out Aatish Taseer’s ‘Divider-in-Chief’ cover article on Narendra Modi, did also put out...
- May 29, 2019
- 3 min
How To Actually Change the World
If there has been a political figure with a legacy so untouched and untarnished, it has to be Mahatma Gandhi. Orwell wrote of Gandhi, a...
- May 27, 2019
- 5 min
Citizen Zuck: The Most Powerful Man in the World
Facebook’s co-founder Chris Hughes’ recent testimony against Mark Zuckerberg was revealing and very agreeable for anyone who is concerned...
- May 23, 2019
- 3 min
Overthrow the Gandhi Family
When Morarji Desai lay at Lutyens for two years with his grand mandate, he was told by someone, that “there are bitter weeds” in the...
- May 1, 2019
- 5 min
Early and Often: Voting and Its Discontents
In the Summer of 1947, John F. Kennedy, then a young Congressman, visited his sister Kathleen in England. Kathleen, who had married into...
- Apr 23, 2019
- 6 min
Why Do We Vote?
As India votes in its 17th Lok Sabha, and maybe one of the most important ones in recent history, it is a good time to reflect on the...
- Mar 27, 2019
- 3 min
A Parody of All The President’s Men
After over two years, the Mueller report has finally been sent in, and much to the chagrin of the Democratic party and the liberal media,...
- Mar 21, 2019
- 4 min
A Normal Nation in Extraordinary Times
The Munich Security Conference, held every year in the Bavarian city, is like the Davos summit, injected with an extra shot of...