The Indo-US Vaccine Action Programme (VAP), an MoU signed on 9 July 1987, was one such moment. Signed by US Ambassador John ...

Forests have been at the centre of human life since ancient times. They are part of history, archaeology, myths, culture, ...

By the time Rajiv Gandhi became Prime Minister I had grown into a young working journalist, far too busy with my work and also a bit cynical to sit through the end of his public speeches to note ...

Instead, it had been taken over by what Trotsky called a bureaucratic caste, a parasitic layer of administrators, planners, and party functionaries who did not own the means of production, but who had ...

The unified organisation is a NEW IDENTITY carrying forward the revolutionary ideology of RCPI and RS, naming themselves as RCPI, because of its continuity in maintaining the name, which is absent in ...

Kerala’s experiment with democratic decentralization represents a significant achievement in Indian governance. Through the devolution of functions, funds, and functionaries, the state sought to ...

The situation at Hasdeo Arand highlights the development dilemma where forests are simultaneously viewed as repositories of natural resources and sources of livelihood. While the relative importance ...

Recalling that as early as 1999, then-UN Special Rapporteur on the elimination of intolerance and all forms of discrimination based on religion or belief, Abdelfattah Amor of Tunisia, described ...

In reviewing the Workers’ Dance League’s 1934 competition, Emanuel Eisenberg sees, with exceptions, the new revolutionary dance too much about, and not enough of, what it seeks to represent in the art ...

Zoramthanga, a pioneer of the once feared Mizo National Front (MNF) who was later Mizoram’s chief minister for 15 long years, is not one to turn to God only in crisis. He does so repeatedly in this ...

Danish Ali, the student leader of JNU, participated in the movement led by CJP at Jantar Mantar, which angered the Delhi Police. They went to her village and want to harass her parents. She is an ...

Shourie is no Marxist. If anything he has been a champion of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). But as we finish the book, one cannot but admire Shourie for his courage in ferreting out the truth about ...