Wagner boss Prigozhin's insurrection: 21st century Russia's Kornilov Affair?As his nation was fighting a major war, a Russian general came to the conclusion that the current political dispensation was incapable and ...
24 Jun, 2023, 08.38 PM IST
Assam doesn't want to set up PSUs anymore, says Himanta Biswa SarmaAssam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said that the government does not subscribe to socialism and public sector industry was the concep...
12 Sep, 2022, 07.41 PM IST
War protest: Statues fall as Europe purges Soviet monumentsRussia's war on Ukraine has given a renewed push to topple the last remaining Soviet monuments in nations that regained their sovereignty f...
31 Aug, 2022, 04.14 PM IST
View: How Putin satisfies inner 'my daddy strongest' and finding neo-Che issuesEven as it seems innocuous enough today, the commercial was a celebration of fathers, which starts with the leading question, 'Acche papa k...
27 Feb, 2022, 12.43 AM IST
Putin's take on history may lay groundwork for warWhat is now Ukraine was a contested region of shifting borders for centuries that did not come completely under Moscow's rule until late in...
22 Feb, 2022, 12.27 PM IST
History of hunger: A famine 100 years ago is key to understanding the Ukrainian crisisIt’s estimated that 3.9 million Ukrainians died of starvation due to the famine.
20 Feb, 2022, 09.26 AM IST
- Chinese Party Syndrome
Within its borders, China is working to create the perfect surveillance State, and its engineers of the soul are again trying to craft the ...
15 Oct, 2021, 11.22 PM IST
View: Communist defectors like Kanhaiya Kumar cannot revive a fading CongressHow this record makes him a potential saviour of the Congress escapes me. He was lucky the BJP made him a martyr, and grabbed the opportuni...
06 Oct, 2021, 12.01 AM IST
DMK criticises EC over order on campaigning in West BengalThe EC had invoked Article 324 of the Constitution to curtail the campaigning for the last phase of the election on May 19.
16 May, 2019, 03.34 PM IST
The story of food and football in RussiaAny major sporting event like the World Cup is, when conducted by an authoritarian state, an exercise in the bread-and-circuses approach to...
09 Jun, 2018, 11.00 PM IST
View: Get tough with goonda brigade in AligarhThe BJP is not alone in using goons. Other parties have used goons too. But as the ruling party in Delhi and Lucknow, the BJP has a special...
13 May, 2018, 11.00 AM IST
Marx, 200 Years LaterMarx had a devout following and he seemed to have been irritated by it, and he was forced to say that he was not a Marxist. Engels was the ...
11 May, 2018, 11.00 AM IST
Row after Tamil Nadu BJP leader H Raja says Periyar is nextSenior BJP leaders are reportedly not pleased with Raja’s post and his explanation that it was done inadvertently by somebody else has not ...
07 Mar, 2018, 07.18 AM IST
Authoritarian appetite: From Trump to Putin this is what world's most powerful people enjoy eatingFrom cobra stew to live lobsters, a look at the food preferences of some of the most powerful people in the world
31 Dec, 2016, 01.32 AM IST
Authoritarian appetite: From Trump to Putin this is what world's most powerful people enjoy eatingFrom cobra stew to live lobsters, a look at the food preferences of some of the most powerful people in the world
31 Dec, 2016, 01.30 AM IST
It's in India's best interest that Arvind Kejriwal doesn't actually wield powerHe plans to “ask people of Delhi” – via community meetings, text messages and widely distributed party pamphlets – whether his AAP should r...
18 Dec, 2013, 12.28 PM IST
- Why some countries prosper & others don’t
The authors talk about the nature of extractive institutions and how the legacy of a country’s colonial past affects its long-term prospect...
10 Jun, 2012, 05.18 AM IST