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What is an Idea of India? Ask a liberal, this will be a democratic republic where secularism trumps, multiple cultures, and identities coexi...

Leadership and ideas can change the working of institutions and affect policies in long term. Atal Bihari Bajpai is a name whose transformat...

1- Smokers’ Corner: Real revolutions by Nadeem F. Paracha. 2- The Night Shastri Died And Other Stories by Kuldip Nayar. 3- Why Elites ...

Harvard professor Larry Lessig is one of our foremost authorities on copyright issues, with a vision for reconciling creative freedom with ...

“The scale of the human socio-economic-political complex system is so large that it seriously interferes with the biospheric complex system ...

Living a regular and tedious life, suddenly I started pondering over thought that whether professional and personal success are mutually exc...

1- Let a thousand heretics bloom : Liberal education is a sustained and controlled matter, where practicality is directly related to search...

Whenever I read about Pakistan, a negative perception gets strong hold. Pakistan is becoming Denialistan whose citizens do not accept their...

1- How America Can Rise Again : The simplest measure of whether a culture is dominant is whether outsiders want to be part of it Any great ...

I was reading an article about casteism by Aditya Nigam published under Caste Politics in India in an South Asian journal. Quoting a paragr...

I am not talking about human rights today. I am asking a burning question : Do some Lives are less worthy than others? Today, an American l...

It is the most illuminating interview I have yet heard/read on the situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Jere Van Dyk is a journalist and...

In Indian society one is surrounded by false values right from birth irrespective of religious background. Rare People try to change the not...

1- Transparency and Poverty in India :  It is interview of Aruna Roy a prominent leader of the Right to Information movement and and Nikhil ...

I often blog about culture but partially global politics. I do care about injustice, but the global scale and systematic nature of it has le...

1- Who pays the price for paid news? : In mid-June, the Election Commission of India directed Chief Electoral Officers of all states and Un...

Question- How do society cope with its problems ? Answer - In the first step, Intellects of the community discover the malpractices goin...

I had read about Nazism and holocaust in class 10th history book. The whole notion of racial supremacy appears highly irrational to my teena...

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them bet...

Is brutality committed in the name of patriotism more justified than violence committed in the name of parallel ideologies, be it Maoism, Je...