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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

As war clouds gather on our horizon, they are taking an expedient course and vacating the barricades of the anti-war movement. Indeed, the dismal scene today is so disheartening because unlike in 1962 ...

The way people from Pahalgam faced the threats from terrorists and saved the tourists by taking them to their homes and taking them to hospitals needs a new dimension in Indian politics. Hindutva ...

A long due read – One Dimensional Man by Herbert Marcuse, aroused my interest in Consumerism; mostly a detailed read of the ‘advanced industrial society’ and its varied aspects, and more so about the ...

Thirdly, there are reports that the ceasefire was worked out following back-channel talks between the Indian and the Pakistani side, with rumours of former Pakistani PM Nawaz Sharif pressuring his ...