This article argues that the selected Indian media outlets have failed to develop a public sphere in the Habermasian sense , where rational-critical debate among private individua ...

The last king of Nepal was Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev. He ruled Nepal from 2001 to 2008, when the Nepalese Constituent Assembly declared the country a ‘federal democratic republic’ and abolished ...

While just now there is a widespread feeling of relief that a much bigger potential disaster has been averted due to the clinching of an early ceasefire, thanks to the wisdom displayed at a crucial ...

The Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) among the people who have seen gruesome scenes wakeup sweating after 20 years and need psychiatric care he further added. War should be the last option, ...

While the Indus Waters Treaty has survived three India-Pakistan wars, the pattern of interaction between the two countries on sharing the waters of the Indus Basin has been conflictual rather than ...

The sensational incident which the book recaps took place in May 1971, thanks to a thoroughly unscrupulous conman, Rustom Sohrab Nagarwala, and a foolish and naïve chief cashier at the State Bank of ...

At any event, both India and Pakistan announced ceasefire and while it took more than a few hours to actually bring it to a halt, war has ceased, all the same. But our reason for going to war with ...

Pratishtha Pandya * I AM SO GLAD, YOU ARE ASLEEP. I have asked your mother to recover your phone from your room and bin it. On your mother’s phone, I shall tell you why. Your ...

One of the saddest things about India’s lurch toward transforming as a national security state through the past decade since our late ‘peacenik prime minister’ Manmohan Singh handed over power has ...

The past few months have been emotionally and psychophysically draining – the burden of education and the apprehension of sinking into the clouds of oblivion can be disturbing beyond imagination. The ...

How do you rate a society that treats women so shabbily that they are branded as whores and prostitutes simply for playing ...