As a Sri Lankan citizen living in the UK, the author finds himself in the eye of the two political storms tearing...

The burgeoning movement has spilled forth beyond the confines of the film and entertainment industry. But how far will it go?

Working up public outrage is an art and not all political parties are able to create mass hysteria.

As capital elbows its way in and remakes the world according to its own designs, the need to democratise this polity...

During a festival celebrating the Goddess who kills a demon menacing Gods, scores of educated Indian women have...

The west's failure in Afghanistan and Iraq, says our columnist who predicted both, is above all one of understanding.

Writing on Gandhi in an India stricken by faux patriotism and jingoism causes gloom. A poem in Indian English...

The Hindutva storm-troopers would feel let down, having been trained to abuse the secular Hindus, liberals,...

Anti-abortion and anti-LGBTIQ rights activists, politicians, and religious leaders met in Moldova this month for the...

The executive is hardly accountable to the legislature, legislators lack tangible power, so notions of the consent...

Community radio projects in the world's biggest refugee camp in Bangladesh demonstrate the significance of...

Naipaul always felt that his books would stand the test of time. But which of his books on India, after multiple...

Student-led mass protests in Dhaka challenge the notion that political consciousness begins at adulthood.

Alam must be released immediately to continue his vital work as a voice for the powerless.

"If a principled yet powerful leader does emerge, he can only come from yesterday’s disempowered classes."

In a country with low press freedom and media literacy, fake news could be a recipe for disaster.

Recent events in some prominent democratic nations have highlighted the internal threats that are hard to see and...

The major transformative potential of permaculture in India lies in its ability to make small-scale farmers...

So far a persistent theme of the Afghan conflict is the glaring gap between words and actions, with both sides...

Unlike in India, British democracy, distorted by Mammon, is spared by God.