Politics of Bhagat Singh’s trial
Biographical details of Bhagat Singh’s life have been the main concern of the very valuable work of many scholars and activists who want to portray him as a fearless revolutionary…
Prof. Pritam Singh
Significance of Lula’s victory for the world
by Pritam Singh and Niemeyer Almeida Filho In contrast to the isolationist foreign policy of the Bolsonaro regime, Lula stands out as one of the few global politicians to command…
Punjab’s economic loss from the 1947 independence and partition
Last month, there were celebrations of the 75th anniversary of India’s independence. August 1947 is indeed a month of celebration in India for liberation from British colonial rule (on 15th…
The Sangrur Lok Sabha By-election in Punjab: Upping the human rights issue
The Sangrur Lok Sabha by-election taking place on 23rd June, which might have seemed like an easy win for the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) before the tragic assassination of Sidhu…
The British Prime Minister, Oxford MPs and the Green Party MP on Farmers Protest in India.
As a development and environmental economist with interest in India and the Punjab, I have been writing and speaking on India’s three farming laws enacted in September 2020. As a…
Renaming India as Bharat: The longstanding Hindutva agenda
Though the Supreme Court refused to entertain on June 3 a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) for renaming India as ‘Bharat’ or ‘Hindustan’, it does not put an end to the…
Capital punishment, armed conflicts and terrorist actions amidst Coronavirus
When I read the news that the four men who were found guilty of the horrific rape crime in Delhi in 2012 were hanged to death in a Delhi prison,…
After Delhi violence, AAP weakens its potential in Punjab
Since the boost to AAP in national politics initially came from winning 4 parliamentary seats from Punjab during the 2014 General Election while everywhere else in the country most AAP…
A Punjab parliamentary seat of international significance
One broad generalisation which can be reasonably made about the 2019 General Election in India is that there is no wave of any kind countrywide unlike some of the previous…
Bihar Mahagathbandhan could have been better
When I heard the news of Bihar’s electoral alliance against BJP, I remembered a private conversation a few months back in Oxford with a member of India’s parliament who also…
South Asia Cloud Has A Silver Lining
A dark and menacing cloud of a possible war that had been hanging over India and Pakistan in the last few days was leading to despair and fatalism not only…
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