"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.

Once Britain moved beyond religious nationalism, religion itself became a spent force, though not one prevented from...

The state has been openly hostile towards the Pashtun Tahafuz movement – the right to protest must be protected.

In India, student protests have escalated under the current far-right, Hindu-supremacist government and been...

The vitriolic anger directed at the PoA might mean that Indian society is not entirely ready to face the depth of...

The recent Windrush migration scandal poignantly illustrated the tensions between people’s sense of belonging to a...

Ravish Kumar has recorded the Republic of Fear for posterity. These are the heroes of World Press Freedom Day.

The concept of the precariat has explanatory power day-to-day and transformative potential in the socio-political...

An opaque process of separating the ‘good’ Rohingya refugees from the ‘bad’ ones has begun under conditions where...

“You need to understand,” I told the reporter. “These are baby steps, but important steps, for fuller participation...

Some 5,000 participants from government, business and civil society have arrived for the Commonwealth Heads of...

For us to care about the practices of corporations, reclaim our privacy and contest mass-surveillance we should not...

Joining forces demands a democratic renewal that will dig deep into our cultures and our nations.

So, what is the right measure of passion in politics that is good for the health of democracy? There has to be a...

Constitutionally inculcated rights and morality are slowly being undone “by the use of automated processes to assess...