What is Democracy
Democracy means the rule of the people, rule by ordinary people rather than by a privileged few. Political actors from Robespierre and Blanqui to...
‘Democracy Is For Infidels’
Interview Conducted by Hasnain Kazim
How does Islamic State think? How do its followers see the world? SPIEGEL ONLINE met up with an Islamic State...
The end of history… 25 years on
It is 25 years now since the events of a revolutionary year. The Berlin Wall - a physical symbol of the Cold War -...
Nationalist Hysteria : Ukraine and Israel
The first time I saw a comparison of the war in East Ukraine with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was three weeks ago in an article...
person whose doctrine of nonviolence was based on brutal caste system
Arundhati Roy accuses Mahatma Gandhi of discrimination.
Arundhati Roy, the Booker prize winning author, has accused Mahatma Gandhi of discrimination and called for institutions bearing...
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Despite his designer clothes and BMW, Isla Vista shooting suspect Elliot Rodger was not from a wealthy family.
Rodger's father, a photographer and film director,...
‘The post-modern break’ and the de-legitimization of modern education
Mahesh Hapugoda
The classical modern society is mainly characterized by the notion of differentiation. It established important boundaries and distinctions that could make...
How Not To Fight Modi
What we see today is the banality of moralising: Progressive elites seem to assume that once they declare Narendra Modi evil, the rest...
Rahul Gandhi ; Family as Rhetoric in politics
Senior Congress leaders begin to shield Rahul Gandhi from any blame on how the party performs. Is this a bad strategy for the Congress?...
About 90’S – Ain’t I A Woman?
“It is obvious that many women have appropriated feminism to serve their own ends, especially those white women who have been at the forefront...
People cling onto identities… it is a world opposed to the encounter
What is an encounter?
It is a contingent, chance element of existence. Something happens to you that nothing among your existing world’s points of reference...
