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1 July 2015, by Messaoud Romdhani
Tunisia: Old Cultural Reflexes and Nascent Democracy
After January 14th, 2011, the most uncommon dreams of a beleaguered small country were permitted, and some of them have already come true: for the first time there have been the formation of (...) -
1 July 2015, by Sukumar Muralidharan
Globalisation of Misery
One in every 122 people on the planet today is displaced, a result of the iniquities of development the world over World Refugee Day on June 20 may have been just one of those rituals (...) -
1 June 2015, by Sophia Reuss
Lampedusa: European Border Delocalization in the Mediterranean
Lampedusa, a rocky, 20-square kilometre Italian island in the Mediterranean, lies 113 kilometres east of Tunisia and 300 kilometers north of Libya. In the past two decades, Lampedusa, an (...) -
1 June 2015, by Sophie Smith and Jennifer Geleff
Forced Migration and Ethnic Cleansing: Rohingya Adrift in Southeast Asia
The Rohingya people are an oppressed Muslim minority group in Buddhist-majority Myanmar that have faced an enduring history of ethnic discrimination and systemic poverty. In Myanmar, the (...) -
1 June 2015, by Kyle Jacques
Mediterranean Militarization: A New Obstacle for Europe’s Migrants
Last April over 800 people drowned to death in the Mediterranean Sea after a ship packed full of migrants capsized on its way from Libya to Italy. The victims of this tragedy were much like the (...) -
1 June 2015, by Interview
The Roots of Inequality for Ethiopian Israelis
Jessica Desvarieux, Producer, TRNN interviews Lia Tarachansky Jessica Desvarieux: So Lia, when the protests and the destruction of property took place in Baltimore last week, we covered it (...) -
1 June 2015, by Frans Jansson
A Kurdish Perspective on the Turkish Elections
ISTANBUL – Hopes and fears are plentiful in Kurdish and left-wing politics in Turkey ahead of the elections on Sunday. The Peoples Democratic Party (HDP), the left-wing party focused on the (...) -
1 June 2015, by Messaoud Romdhani
Saving What’s Left of the Arab Spring
When Tunisia succeeded in holding its second legislative and presidential elections by the end of 2014, the “Washington Post” wrote: “Remember the Arab Spring? Here’s what’s left,” (November 23, (...) -
1 June 2015, by Dylan Boyko
Uncovering Something Less Ignorant
I first heard of the vague concept of the Armenian Genocide when I was 13 reading a Kurt Vonnegut novel called Bluebeard. The book was first published in 1987, and only the narrator’s distant (...) -
1 June 2015, by Alternatives
Fighting Austerity
You are kindly invited to join us at this third edition of The Festival of Solidarity to be held in Montreal, on June 13th, at Salle Agora- Coeur des sciences de l’UQAM, from 9:30am to 5:30pm. (...) -
4 May 2015, by Sophia Reuss
Colonialism and Austerity: The Crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women in Canada
The situation of missing and murdered indigenous women in Canada, Harper’s failure to respond to demands for a national inquiry into the issue, and intensifying federal and provincial austerity (...) -
4 May 2015, by James Patrick Cannon
Austerity on Trial? Much at stake for Spain in Electoral Year
2015 is a critical year for Spain’s progressive forces. The country is set to hold municipal and regional elections in May, and national elections by the end of the year, democratic exercises (...) -
4 May 2015, by Dylan Boyko
The Grexit Looms
The unfortunately named grexit looms unenviably. Caught between the hardline dictates of the IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde and the uncertain plans of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and (...) -
4 May 2015, by Kyle Jacques
Case of Bolivia Offers Alternative Perspective on the Supposed Necessity of Fiscal Austerity
The Quebec Liberals and their supporters in the news media are relying on familiar and simplistic arguments regarding the need for fiscal austerity in the province. While budget cuts will harm (...) -
4 May 2015, by Noah Sutton and Sophia Reuss
Austerity and Environment: Interview
Roger Rashi is a long-time social and political activist from Montreal. He now works as Campaigns Coordinator for Alternatives. Since the fall of 2011, Roger was involved in organizing the (...) -
4 May 2015, by Aditya Adhikari
Watching A City Crumble
A first person account of the earthquake and its aftershocks in Kathmandu. In the evening of April 25, the day that the 7.9 magnitude earthquake struck Nepal, I stood on the roof of my house (...) -
4 May 2015, by Asad Zaidi
Radical Storyteller
Six years ago, at the Summit of the Americas, Hugo Chavez, sprung a surprise on the unsuspecting Barack Obama by presenting him, with great fanfare, a copy of the original Spanish edition of (...) -
4 April 2015
People United Will Never Be Defeated!
Declaration of the Social Movements Assembly World Social Forum 2015 Tunisia, 27 March 2015 The Social Movements Assembly of the WSF 2015, Tunisia is the place where we come together through (...) -
4 April 2015, by Gideon Levy
Netanyahu Deserves the Israeli People, and They Deserve Him
The first conclusion that arose just minutes after the announcement of the exit polls was particularly discouraging: The nation must be replaced. Not another election for the country’s (...) -
4 April 2015, by Paul Weinberg
Bill C-51 Wants You to Stop Protesting in Support of Palestinians
One of the less discussed questions of the Harper government’s anti-terror bill, Bill C-51, is whether Palestinian rights advocates and advocates of boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) will (...) -
4 April 2015, by Pablo Solón
Behind the Climate Negotiating Text for COP21
The future lies in the past. What has happened will determine what will come. The idea that we can change everything and save the world at the last minute is exciting in movies but it does not (...) -
4 April 2015, by Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois
Quebec Police Don’t Live in a Bubble
When faced with a symbolically criminalized enemy, there’s only one possible attitude: all-out war. Last Thursday, a police officer from the Service de police de la ville de Québec (SPVQ) (...) -
4 April 2015, by Spyros Lapatsioras, John Milios and Dimitris P. Sotiropoulos
Syriza’s Only Choice: A Radical Step Forward
“One must know how to employ the kairos [right or opportune moment] of one’s forces at the right moment. It is easy to only lose a little, if one always keeps foremost in the mind the idea that (...) -
4 April 2015, by Sukumar Muralidharan
Free Speech, Fearless Listening and Fair Trial
How India’s Daughter has led to a bonfire of free speech Free speech is not about raging at the walls of an empty room. It also involves the right to be heard. And this freedom could (...) -
4 April 2015, by Immanuel Wallerstein
Antisystemic Movements and the Future of Capitalism
Unrevised version of talk at 39th Annual Meeting of the Political Economy of the World-System Conference, Berlin, Mar. 2015. The antisystemic movements now find themselves in the midst of a (...) -
4 April 2015, by SACW
Daya Varma (1929-2015)
Dr. Daya Varma, life-long communist, scientist, activist, dreamer, pharmacologist, professor emeritus at McGill University, Montreal, passed away on 22 March 2015 in St. John’s, Newfoundland, (...) -
1 March 2015, by Praful Bidwai
India: From a Politics of Hatred to a Politics of Hope
The Aam Aadmi Party has accomplished a stupendous political feat in India’s capital. Not only has it won more than half the total vote and 95 percent of all seats, which even the luckiest of (...) -
1 March 2015, by Stefan Christoff
A Surveillance Society And Criminalize Dissent
New ‘anti-terrorism’ legislation proposed by the Conservative government, Bill C-51, is a clear assault on free expression, creating an extensive legal framework for state authorities to (...) -
1 March 2015, by Messaoud Romdhani
Terrorism on Both Sides of the Mediterranean
On 6 February 2013, the Tunisian leftist leader Chokri Belaid was shot dead. Belaid had been very critical of the Islamist-led troika government and of violence perpetrated by radical Islamists. (...) -
1 March 2015, by Prashant Bhushan
Terrorizing Teesta Setalvad
The case of Teesta Setalvad is a chilling example of what can still happen to even highly acclaimed and well connected persons in this country if they take on those in authority The case of (...) -
1 March 2015, by Palestinian BDS National Committee
Disinformation and Repression Against BDS
Palestinian Civil Society Condemns Canadian Government Disinformation and Repression Against Boycott Movement The Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC), the largest coalition of (...) -
1 March 2015, by Uri Avnery
The Casino Republic
Who is the ruler of Israel? Prime Minister Biyamin Netayahu, of course. WRONG. The real ruler of Israel is one Sheldon Adelson, 81, American Jew, Casino king, who was rated as the (...) -
1 March 2015, by Grist staff
Why Low Oil Prices Could be a Great Thing
May Boeve, executive director of 350.org, recently interviewed Naomi Klein, activist and author of the book This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate (and a 350 board member), as part (...) -
1 March 2015, by Costas Douzinas
Syriza: The Greek Spring
The 2015 Greek elections mark the beginning of the end of a cycle that started in 1989 with the fall of the Berlin Wall. We are now witnessing the end of the "end of history" metanarrative. (...) -
1 March 2015, by Bernard Dreano
Letter from Paris
My friends and I, either in the past or more recently, all had some kind of personal and/or activist link with people among the victims... Dear Friends, As you know the terrorists killed (...) -
1 February 2015, by Stathis Kouvelakis
After Syriza’s Victory, Confrontation or Capitulation
Syriza’s Stathis Kouvelakis on why his party fell short of an absolute majority and the choices that lie ahead. Syriza’s electoral triumph has brought hope to the European radical left and (...) -
1 February 2015, by Glenn Greenwald
Free Speech for Western Apologists Only
France Arrests a Comedian For His Facebook Comments, Showing the Sham of the West’s “Free Speech” Celebration Forty-eight hours after hosting a massive march under the banner of free (...) -
1 February 2015, by Praful Bidwai
Did Obama Legitimize Extremist Violence With His Visit to India?
The president roped once-non-aligned India into a strategic alliance, but only by bolstering the Modi government, with its religious intolerance and pro-corporate policies. The combination (...) -
1 February 2015, by Mustafa Caglayan
Norman Finkelstein: Charlie Hebdo is Sadism, not Satire
World renowned political science professor says he has ’no sympathy’ for staff at Charlie Hebdo In Nazi Germany, there was an anti-Semitic weekly newspaper called Der Stürmer. Run by (...) -
1 February 2015, by Sukumar Muralidharan
Hand in Hand?
India inhabits a complex part of the geopolitical map, where the simple binaries of us and them break down, especially for the US The sole Indian journalist called on to address a question (...) -
1 February 2015, by Messaoud Romdhani
Women’s Empowerment: The Text and the Practice
Tunisia could pride itself on drafting the most advanced code of personal status in the region, forbidding polygamy, legalizing divorce, establishing equality between partners in the choice of (...) -
1 February 2015, by Medea Benjamin
Flogging for Blogging?
The U.S. government continues to turn a blind eye to the medieval forms of torture meted out by its Saudi allies. On January 9, two days after the massive Paris march condemning the brutal (...) -
1 February 2015, by Harsh Kapoor
Long Live Charlie Hebdo!
A letter to the left leaning in wake of Charlie Hebdo shootings of January 2015 The January 2015 terror attack on the Paris satirical weekly and its gross misinterpretation by people of Left (...) -
1 February 2015, by Leo Panitch
The Greek Election
As we enter the eighth year of the long-lingering global economic crisis, it is sobering indeed that it is only in Greece that a political party putting forward a clear, radical democratic (...) -
1 January 2015, by Pervez Hoodbhoy
It Wasn’t The Final Atrocity
THE gut-wrenching massacre in Peshawar’s Army Public School has left Pakistan aghast and sickened. All political leaders have called for unity against terrorism. But this is no watershed event (...) -
1 January 2015, by Ajmal Kamal
Litfests and Bookfairs – Two Worlds?
If you have attended this year the two events that mark the pinnacle of Karachi’s book culture – the Karachi Literature Festival and the Karachi International Book Fair – you may have noticed (...) -
1 January 2015, by Editorial, Economic and Political Weekly
Staring Down a Precipice
Lima ignored the urgent need to address climate change. They came, they talked, and they almost failed. That seems to be the trajectory of most of the conferences on climate change held (...) -
1 January 2015, by John Feffer
Carrots for Cuba, Sticks for North Korea
As one cold war thaws, another refreezes. Cuba and North Korea share a great deal in common. They are both led by dynastic rulers. They retain their nominal affiliation to revolutionary (...) -
1 January 2015, by Messaoud Romdhani
Tunisia: The Third Option For The Region
Despite hardships and breaches that marred the electoral campaign depriving scores of citizens, mainly outside the country, from their right to vote, the electoral process was rather successful. (...) -
1 December 2014, by Vacy Vlazna
Merkel’s Wall Of Hypocrisy
"The Berlin Wall, this symbol of state abuse cast in concrete, took millions of people to the limits of what is tolerable, and all too many beyond it.” On the 25th anniversary of the fall of (...) -
1 December 2014, by Pervez Hoodbhoy
Why Does Malala Yusufzai’s Nobel Bother So Many On The Left?
Arundhati Roy’s charm and lucidity have iconized her in the world of left-wing politics. But, asked by Laura Flanders what she made of the 2014 Nobel Prize, she appeared to beswallowing a live (...) -
1 December 2014, by Praful Bidwai
Why The Right To Dissent Is Indispensable: Romila Thapar Speaks Out
When Bharatiya Janata Party leader LK Advani famously said of the media during the Emergency that “when asked to bend, they crawled”, he received widespread praise from the intelligentsia and (...) -
1 December 2014, by Charlotte María Sáenz
Mexico’s Undead Rise Up
With 43 disappeared student teachers presumed dead, Mexican popular resistance is creating new alternatives to the militarized narco-state. “Alive they were taken, and alive we want them (...) -
1 December 2014, by Emran Feroz
US Journalist Blumenthal Sees Similarity in Islamic State And Israel
STUTTGART: When Gaza was attacked during the summer, Angela Merkel promised to “stand by the side of Israel.” The German chancellor has done much more than offer verbal support for Israel’s (...) -
1 December 2014, by Immanuel Wallerstein
"NATO: Danger to World Peace"
The official mythology is that between 1945 (or 1946) and 1989 (or 1991), the United States and the Soviet Union (USSR) confronted each other continuously - politically, militarily, and above (...) -
1 December 2014, by Shiv Visvanathan
Poetics of a Nation: Remembering Nehru
Jawaharlal Nehru cannot be seen merely as an object of history, a fragment of policy. He was a dream, a hope, a claim to innocence, an aesthetic, which gave to modernity a touch of elegance (...) -
1 December 2014, by Immanuel Wallerstein
"Syria: Turkish Ambivalence"
Amid the many and ever-evolving shifts of policies and geopolitical alliances in the various countries of the Middle East, one used to be at least sure what are the prime objectives of the major (...) -
1 December 2014, by Fr. Cedric Prakash sj
The Nanavati Commission: Another Hoax On The People Of India!
Finally, yesterday (November 18th 2014), exactly 12 years 8 months and 12 days after it was first constituted by the Gujarat Government on March 6th 2002 to probe the burning of the Godhra train (...) -
1 December 2014, by Eli Aminov
Israel’s Nation State Law: Jewish Sharia
The nation state law currently proposed by the government is yet another signal to Israel’s Palestinian citizens: Israel is for Jews! Prime Minister Netanyahu and his government are (...) -
1 December 2014, by Michelle Weinroth
In Memoriam: Jeanette (née Epstein) Weinroth: June 18, 1929 – October 18, 2014
"Let me not forget that I am the daughter of a woman who herself … never ceased to flower, untiringly, during three quarters of a century." Sidonie Colette A widely recognized public voice (...) -
2 November 2014, by Matthew Behrens
Reflections on a Violent Day in Ottawa
I often find it hard to feel empathy for Prime Minister Stephen Harper. But when I saw the grim picture of him talking on the phone following the end of his confinement in the locked down House (...) -
2 November 2014, by John Feffer
Recognizing Palestine
As more European governments line up to recognize a Palestinian state, Israel (and the U.S.) look more isolated than ever. In his recent meeting with President Obama, Israeli Prime Minister (...) -
2 November 2014, by Murray Dobbin
From Israel to ISIS: Harper’s ‘Orwellian’ Foreign Policy
It’s getting difficult to remember a time when the Canadian Parliament actually tried to make principled decisions regarding foreign policy and our place in the community of nations. But we (...) -
2 November 2014, by Jawed Naqvi
Have Indian Intellectuals Been Co-opted?
Increasingly of late, Prof Romila Thapar is required to assume the nearly impossible role of Emperor Akbar, who, according to the official plaque at his tomb near Agra, had “created a nation out (...) -
2 November 2014, by Stefan Christoff
Gunmen in Ottawa : Questioning Canadian militarism
Only minutes after shots rang outinside Canada’s parliament buildings and on the streets of Ottawa today, mainstream media quickly launched into fear-driven reporting, largely failing to look (...) -
2 November 2014, by Michel Warschawski
Unilateralism and Chutzpah
The word ’chutzpah’ cannot be translated into English. As an essential part of human behaviour, however, it has entered the daily language of many East Coast Americans or, more precisely, in its (...) -
2 November 2014, by Gustave Massiah
The Movement’s Strategic Challenges
Since the publication of Une stratégie altermondialiste, history has shifted into high gear. We can say that the hypotheses and proposals of the book have been confirmed, together with their (...) -
2 November 2014, by Sergio Yahni
Israel: First Gaza, Now Jerusalem
Just like against the Gaza Strip, Israel has launched an offensive against Jerusalem. And just like in the 1980’s under General Ariel Sharon, Israel is attempting to re-engineer Middle East (...) -
2 November 2014, by Idil isse
Glenn Greenwald in Montreal
This past month, Glenn Greenwald stopped by Montreal on his Canadian speaking tour. The Concordia University event was a fundraiser for the Freedom of the Press Foundation and began with a (...) -
1 October 2014
Russell Tribunal on Palestine
“The Gaza War (2014) under International Law: An Inquiry into Israel’s Crimes, Responsibility and the Response of the International Community” Extraordinary Session Brussels, 25 September (...) -
1 October 2014, by George Monbiot
Bomb Everyone
Humanitarian arguments, if consistently applied, could be used to flatten the entire Middle East Let’s bomb the Muslim world – all of it – to save the lives of its people. Surely this is the (...) -
1 October 2014, by Pablo Solon
How Did Leaders Respond to the People’s Climate March?
About 400,000 people went to the streets on September 21st to ask for real actions to address climate change. It was the greatest climate march in history. The UN Climate Summit organized by (...) -
1 October 2014, by Tariq Dana
The Misery of Palestinian Unity
Contrary to some optimistic expectations about positive internal political changes stemming from the recent Israeli war on Gaza, intra-Palestinian division continues to define and fragment the (...) -
1 October 2014, by Pervez Hoodbhoy
How TV Promoted Terrorism In Pakistan
IF today, with remote in hand, you randomly flip through channels on your TV, or browse through nearly two dozen online newspapers, you will see video clips or photos of Pakistan Air Force jets (...) -
1 October 2014, by Messaoud Romdhani
A Flawed Education System Could Jeopardize Democracy
“Young people must take it upon themselves to ensure that they receive the highest education so that they can represent us in the future.” Nelson Mandela The Tunisian Forum for Economic and (...) -
1 September 2014, by Michel LAMBERT
Peoples’ Social Forum 2014 and Beyond
Much has been said, for the most part very positive, about the incredible Peoples’ Social Forum, which took place from August 21st to 24th in Ottawa. Naomi Klein’s comment during her opening (...) -
1 September 2014, by Miriam Katawazi
Peoples’ Social Forum: 500 Workshops, 19 Assemblies, 5,000 Voices and a Declaration
After the Peoples’ Social Forum (PSF) ended this weekend, tents at the University of Ottawa were left empty. Booths covered with art and information that lined the once busy streets had (...) -
1 September 2014, by Alternative Information Center (AIC)
Palestinians support resistance in post-Gaza reality
This growing Palestinian support for resistance as the recent Gaza conflict evolved demonstrates the failure of Israeli tactics, which targeted Gaza’s civilian population in order to weaken (...) -
1 September 2014, by Elizabeth Austwick
Israel Ramps up Pressure on PFLP
Following Tuesday morning’s detention of 12 leaders from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), the party has declared that Israel is conducting a clear campaign against it. (...) -
1 September 2014, by Siddharth Varadarajan
The Futility of Not Talking to Pakistan
Modi has erred greatly by cancelling talks instead of pursuing an enlightened internal Kashmir policy India is perhaps the only major power in the world to regard dialogue with an adversary (...) -
1 September 2014, by David Mandel
Understanding the Civil War in Ukraine
The Ukrainian conflict, like most political phenomena, is multi-dimensional and highly complex. As such, it calls for a holistic – dialectical, if you wish – approach. But to judge by American (...) -
1 September 2014, by Messaoud Romdhani
Women in Tunisia: The Struggle for Equality is Not Over
On August 13, 2014, Tunisian women commemorated the 58th anniversary of the promulgation of the Personal Status Code (PSC) that transformed married and family life in Tunisia. In fact, the PSC (...) -
1 September 2014, by Roger Waters
Why Moral Perversity of U.S. Position in Gaza is Stunning
I think it’s safe to say that if U.S. neighborhoods were living under siege, folks like Rand Paul wouldn’t take it The carnage in Gaza continues after the latest collapse of cease-fire talks (...) -
1 August 2014, by Michael Reford
Casualties of a Conservative Government
Canada is still the calm, expansive landmass just above the United States. In recent memory, that idea is being increasingly challenged by Stephen Harper’s Progressive Conservative government. (...) -
1 August 2014, by Michael Bramadat-Willcock
Lac-Mégantic: One year later
As my childhood home of Lac-Mégantic reeled in the wake of the July 6, 2013 derailment that left its center destroyed, journalists flocked to the small town. After the explosion my family and I (...) -
1 August 2014, by Stefan Christoff
Trudeau Embraces Injustice, in Canada and Gaza
Justin Trudeau is failing to speak out against ongoing Israeli war crimes in Gaza, clearly illustrating a broader hypocritical and unprincipled political orientation. Although the dynasty (...) -
1 August 2014, by Eli Aminov
Renewed Slaughter in Gaza Ghetto
Another round of fighting, another massacre larger than its predecessor, another genocidal war and another failure. This is the future that the state of Jews promises for its citizens and (...) -
1 August 2014, by Messaoud Romdhani
Setting Path to Next Elections: Hardships and Challenges
One point to be made at the outset: Tunisian citizens are not queuing up to register for the next elections. Out of the roughly four million new eligible voters to cast their vote for the next (...) -
1 August 2014, by Belén Fernandez
Make Love and War
Back in 2007, the pages of Maxim magazine played host to a public relations effort to refurbish the image of the Israel Defense Forces, which had been tarnished by—among other nefarious (...) -
1 August 2014, by Norman Finkelstein
Do Palestinians Have the Legal Right to Resist the Israeli Blockade and Occupation?
On July 7, Israel unleashed Operation Protective Edge against Gaza. When it launched a ground invasion on July 18, Israel had already killed 230 Gazan Palestinians — of whom 75% (171) were (...) -
1 July 2014, by Bradley Castelli
Peoples’ Social Forum: Canada
The 2014 Peoples’ Social Forum will take place from August 21 to 24 this summer in Ottawa. The first ever pan-Canadian social forum is expected to draw some 10 000 participants from all over the (...) -
1 July 2014, by Nathalie Baptiste
Soccer Is Democratic. The World Cup Is Oligarchy.
It’s the biggest sporting event in the world. Fans from virtually every place on Earth don jerseys, scarves, and caps and head to the nearest bar to chug an ice-cold beer while passionately (...) -
1 July 2014, by Stefan Christoff
On ‘reasonability’ in activism and demanding the impossible
Over recent days in Montréal, after joining multiple activist discussions (including those at the Montréal Student Movement Convention), revolving around possible frameworks for asserting (...) -
1 July 2014, by Sudhish Kamath
The World Before Her: Two women, two worlds
Very rarely do we see the world through the eyes of the heroine in Indian cinema. Most of it, if not all, has been the hero’s journey. The heroine is always playing a supporting role or a (...) -
1 July 2014, by Rick Staggenborg
We Are All Palestinians Now- A Review Of Max Blumenthal’s Goliath
Jewish American reporter Max Blumenthal’s latest book is a must-read for anyone struggling to understand why Jewish Israelis support ultimately self-destructive policies of their government. (...) -
1 July 2014, by ICSSI
A Voice From Inside Mosul
Interview by the Iraqi Civil Society Solidarity Initiative (ICSSI), with an Iraqi human rights defender (“QC”) from Mosul – the 18th of June 2014 What is the situation now in the city of (...) -
1 May 2014, by Siddharth Varadarajan
The Cult of Cronyism
Who does Narendra Modi represent and what does his rise in Indian politics signify? Given the burden he carries of the 2002 anti-Muslim massacres, it is tempting to see the Gujarat chief (...) -
1 May 2014, by Siddharth Varadarajan
What Money Can Buy
Should we worry that Modi may be spending as much on advertising as Obama spent on his entire 2012 campaign? The 2014 election is a reminder of the one big loophole in India’s election rules (...) -
1 May 2014, by C.P. Chandrasekhar
Modi & Constraints Of Democracy
If India is not to be handed over to big business and a rabidly communal fringe, it is best to keep Narendra Modi out of the Prime Minister’s Office. ELECTIONS 2014 are remarkable for a (...) -
1 May 2014, by Harsh Kapoor
India: Big Business Taking Over Will be Undoing of Democracy
The run-up to the 2014 general elections in India has been an unprecedented demonstration of the massive infusion of money in electoral campaigning. A veritable carpet-bombing of India’s voters (...)