The certainty of all bubbles is that they will burst. When the enormous bubble of the financial crisis burst in 2007, it led to the rise in right-wing, authoritarian, populist bubbles across many coun...

Those who follow international political developments have observed that there has been an increase in the number of countries with authoritarian heads of state. Surprisingly, most of these government...

The Narendra Modi-led government has done it again. The Centre has scrapped the all-India survey on household consumption expenditure conducted by the then National Sample Survey Office. A few months ...

There have been many protests against the citizenship (amendment) bill (now Act), and there will be many more. This piece of legislation strikes at the heart of the Constitution, seeking to make India...

Leading the world is a desirable goal. But being the leader of the global pack may not always be an accomplishment. Consider the following — disheartening — fact. India, a report filed by an indep...

Fifty-two years ago, as protests against the Vietnam war were snowballing, the counter-culture gaining traction, young people rebelling against the roles assigned to them in matters to do with gender,...

Pay attention to Hong Kong. The three months of protests here speak volumes about the state of democracy today — how the human quest for freedom can’t be snuffed out, even by the most powerful aut...