The following is a hilarious excerpt from Bob Woordward’s recent book, Fear: Trump in the White House: In August 2010, six years before taking over Donald Trump’s winning presidential campaign, Steve Bannon, then 57 and a produced of right-wing political films, answered his phone. “What are you doing tomorrow?” asked David Bossie, a long-time House Republican investigator and conservative activist who had chased Bill and Hillary Clinton scandals for almost two decades. “Dude,

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 Ian Bremmer’s counter opinion as to why Modi will be the best option for India’s economic reform and progress in the same issue, which was released two weeks prior to the election results announcement. They now have produced a new article claiming that the same ‘Divider-in-Chief’ has united India like ‘no ever Prime Minister in decades’. Sup

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 year after he was assassinated, “compared with the other leading political figures of our time, how clean a smell he has managed to leave behind!” Such appreciation from a scathing critic of everything, speaks volumes about what Gandhi was able to achieve and how he won and how he enabled millions of Indians to win. Of course, to what extent

Dr. Sanjib Baruah is a professor of political studies at Bard College in the US, where he teaches comparative politics and international relations. In this conversation with Swagat Baruah, he discusses nation-state, Assam, the Citizenship Amendment Bill and his early influences. Swagat Baruah: What got you into teaching? Sanjib Baruah: Well you know it’s not really that ‘I got into teaching’; life is more than what people realise, like when you write autobiographies, never tr

The official newspaper of the Communist Part of the Soviet Union was called Pravda (translated to ‘truth’) because it engaged in disseminating anything but the truth. But what is more interesting is how there are already pre-existing different types of truths in the Russian language itself – Pravda being man’s truth, Istina being God’s truth and Nepravda being untruth. This indicates two things: firstly that just like a language must be spoken within the strictures of the alp