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Anti-Muslim Politics Has Became Central to the Modi Era

Listen to this article: Having been born and brought up in a Namboodiri landlord family in Kerala’s only Muslim majority district before...

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Modi’s ‘Opposition-Mukt’ Bharat: How Delhi Durbar Engineered Bengal Regime Change

Listen to this article: Adi Shankara’s sarpa-sutra nyaya (snake-rope analogy) propounds two levels of truth: what the common man perceives and the...

16.05.2026 20

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Brokers as Shop-Floor Fixers: Genesis Of Labour Unrest in Industrial Hubs

On April 12 and onwards, Noida was witness to widespread protests by frustrated industrial workers. Blue-collar workers in large numbers came out on...

29.04.2026 20

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Modi Dumped the Nehru-Atal Legacy To Make Way For Hate and Cult Promotion

The special session of parliament has two crucial takeaways for the opposition: first, they must hereafter be alert to scrutinise every move by this...

23.04.2026 20

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Why Are So Many Fake PMO ‘Officers’ Roaming Around So Freely?

Listen to this article: Believe it or not, over three dozen conmen faking themselves as officers at the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) have been...

13.04.2026 20

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How Image-Boosters Helped Narendra Modi and Shaped Poll-Time Messaging

Listen to this article: In the early years after the Independence, election posters were rare and handwritten on white paper or old newspapers. In our...

04.04.2026 20

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When Constitutional Bodies Act as the BJP’s Stormtroopers

Amit Shah’s main battlefield is West Bengal where the poll panel is acting as a virtual coordinator of a massive political operation to annex the...

22.03.2026 30

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With Its War Chest Flooding the Polls, BJP Tilts the Field Like Never Seen Before

Listen to this article: Rajiv Gandhi’s “back room boys” of the mid-eighties pioneered the commercialisation of Indian elections. Arun Nehru was...

06.03.2026 30

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PM CARES: A Pandemic Fund That Centralised Money and Avoided Scrutiny

Many were surprised when, in 2020, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, while addressing a political rally, announced that a new special relief fund was...

27.02.2026 30

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PM Modi's Many Charchas and the Silencing of Parliament

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has a great fascination for charchas: pariksha pe charcha, chai pe charcha and now dinner pe charcha. Modi’s...

15.02.2026 30

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The Trump Challenge: What India Can Do 

23.01.2026 20

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Sticking Point on BJP Chief's Selection: Independent or From Within the Establishment

27.08.2025 30

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From US Weapons to Nuclear Liability, How Modi Govt Has Turned Its Back on India to Appease Trump

25.06.2025 30

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Too Many ‘Charchas’ Under Modi But No Real Debate

22.04.2025 20

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The World Under Trump’s Capitalist Oligarchy And Its Daily Arm Twisting

16.04.2025 20

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Collegium May be Imperfect But a Govt-Dominated NJAC is the Worst Threat To Democracy

06.04.2025 20

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An Unceremonious End to Modi’s Smart Cities Mission

01.04.2025 30

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