BY: Varghese K. George Debates over taxation and representation have been central to the evolution of democracy over centuries. India and America, the biggest and oldest democracies, respectively, are in...

By: Apoorvanand  A letter the Catholic Archbishop of Delhi sent to all parish priests working in India's capital city has created a furore in the country's already charged political scene....

By: Mahir Ali IN his 1852 critique of Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, Karl Marx begins by citing the Hegelian remark that “all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice....

By: Robert Crawford It is appalling that the Senate would approve for CIA Director someone who was directly involved in carrying out torture. Haspel should have been disqualified from the...

By: Conn Hallinan The question is: has the Trump administration already made a decision to go to war with Iran, similar to the determination of the Bush administration to invade...

By: MOHAN GURUSWAMY To my mind "Modi Hatao" is a perfectly appropriate agenda considering how useless Prime Minister Narendra Modi has turned out to be, and the damage he has...

By: Rakesh Sood The long-standing Palestinian-Israeli conflict in West Asia has been overshadowed by new flashpoints in the region, both internal and external, since the Arab Spring. The fight against...

By: SAJAD FAROOQ RATHER A prostitute is a person who is legally defined as one "who allows her body to be used for lewd purposes in return for payment". Prostitution...

By: Christophe Jaffrelot , Sharik Laliwala In the current debates on the place of Muslims in Indian society, a key dimension has remained unexplored: What is their physical place? Where...

By: Richard Javad Heydarian After months of exhilarating anticipation, US President Donald Trump abruptly ditched a scheduled summit with his North Korean counterpart, Kim Jong-un. The US president vaguely cited...