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Chrispin Mwakideu
Gambia Faces Key Test for Democracy in Decisive Election
03 Dec 2021
Gambian voters will cast their votes on December 4 in a hotly contested presidential election. Observers view the polls as a crucial litmus test of Gambia's democracy.
Anurag Tiwary
Citizens’ Failure: Making Sense of Police Brutality in India
31 Oct 2021
With the increasing call to defund the police globally, the role of police in India is being questioned and reexamined.
Wasi Manazir
Ever-Growing Catalogue of Hate Crimes in India
06 Oct 2021
While crimes motivated by religious reasons are not a new phenomenon, the impunity on display after murders and assaults over the last few years is stunning.
Anurag Tiwary
Straying from Constitutional Values: India’s Democracy is at a Crossroads
02 Oct 2021
The various factors that have undermined the democratic ethos of our country, and have set us on a path different from what the Constituent Assembly had envisioned.
PTI
In her First Meeting with Modi, Kamala Harris Calls for Protecting Democracies at Home and World
24 Sep 2021
“It is imperative that we defend democratic principles and institutions within our respective countries and around the world,” the US Vice-President told the PM.
Sanjay Kumar
Lest We Forget: The Shocking Crimes of Imperialism
23 Sep 2021
Developments in Afghanistan show how liberal narratives depoliticise discourses on freedom, civil rights and democracy to justify imperialism.
Pragya Singh
Why a Canadian City Remembers Gauri Lankesh and India Does Not
05 Sep 2021
Supremacists roam with impunity after killing rationalists and dissenters in India.
S.N. Sahu
Secularism and Democracy Requires the Power of Truth, Not Any Religion, to Survive
02 Sep 2021
Exposing the hollowness of the claim by Gujarat Deputy Chief Minister and Bharatiya Janta Party leader Nitin Patel that secularism in India wouldn’t survive without its Hindu majority.
Shailesh Gandhi
Transparent Selection of Information Commissioners Need of the Hour
28 Aug 2021
With several information commissioners lacking understanding of the RTI Act or interest in transparency, the selection criteria of information commissioners (ICs) should be made transparent and…
Mohammad Sajjad
Indian Muslim Un-Intelligentsia on Taliban Takeover in Afghanistan
24 Aug 2021
It is hypocrisy if India’s Muslim intelligentsia does not put its weight behind pluralism, justice, secularism and democracy in Afghanistan. After all, they want nothing less in India.