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Ash Narain Roy New Delhi

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Trump vs BRICS

US President Donald Trump’s mercurial behaviour reminds one of a boy named Calvin in a classic comic strip, Calvin and Hobbes, by Bill Watterson....

20.08.2025 10

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Politics of spectacle

Advertisement Advertisement Rahul also took a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying the PM should not let his weakness override national...

07.08.2025 10

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New Dark Age?

At the end of the 20th century, celebrated Colombian writer Ga briel Garcia Marquez made a seminal observation: “Expect nothing from the 21st...

20.07.2025 10

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Conditional citizens

Advertisement Advertisement France, on Sunday, expressed concerns after the strikes carried out by the US against three nuclear sites in Iran and...

27.06.2025 20

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Here to Stay

Advertisement Advertisement The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on Thursday informed that India is in touch with China, seeking predictability...

13.06.2025 10

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Towards techno-fascism

Italian Futurism was an art movement led by the charismatic poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. It was known for futurists’ love for disruption. It...

26.05.2025 10

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The Boom fades

The Latin American Boom, a literary phenomenon that consisted of the Latin American narrative, spread throughout the world. With the Boom, the...

22.04.2025 10

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Drawing new lines

In November 2017, after a lengthy meeting with Chinese president Xi Jinping, Donald Trump boasted that he and Xi can solve “probably all” the...

16.02.2025 10

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Right on a roll

Lea Ypi, professor of political theory at the London School of Economics, believes a new “European militarism” has not only empowered the radical...

06.01.2025 10

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Power of No

Uncivilisation: The Dark Mountain Manifesto is Planet Earth’s cri de coeur against grotesque inequality and vandalization of nature. It was written...

28.12.2024 10

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