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The Question of Cyber Sovereignty
India’s pursuit of cyber sovereignty will likely define the next decade. The ban of Tik Tok along with 59 other Chinese-made applications...
Feb 23, 20218 min read


Unravelling Backdoor appointments, the struggle of PSC rankholders and what ails Kerala Politics
The issue of ‘backdoor appointments’ to government and public sector jobs have animated politics in the state. What is the reality of the...
Feb 20, 20219 min read


Neopatrimonialism in India: the case of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar
Francis Fukuyama, the renowned political scientist notes in his book ‘Political Order and Political Decay’ that many Sub-Saharan African...
Jan 7, 20215 min read

The Great Red Resurgence
An Analysis of the 2020 Kerala Local Body Elections A jubilant Chief Minister Pinrayi Vijayan with other LDF leaders: Communist Party of...
Dec 22, 202012 min read


Can HR & CE Departments be secular?
No, they cannot. On the recent decision of the Karnataka High Court to dismiss two petitions challenging the appointment of two...
Dec 14, 20204 min read


The Inevitable Death of Two Front Politics in Kerala
K. Karunakaran (UDF) and E.K. Naynar (LDF) who were the scions of the two fronts in the 1980s and 1990s. Since the Assembly elections in...
Dec 12, 20205 min read


Communist Green, Gold and Red
Communist Green (Chromolaena odorata) an invasive plant species, seen in Road sides of Kerala The Communist Party of India (Marxist) has...
Sep 20, 20205 min read

The Great Indian Cyber wall?
The Government’s decision to block 59 ‘Chinese’ applications in India has prompted an assorted set of responses. The ban comes on the...
Jun 30, 20202 min read

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China: A paper tiger? [Guest Post]
China has recently heightened its rhetoric against Taiwan and has moved against Hong Kong’s autonomy, while initiating a standoff against...
May 29, 20203 min read


Streaming Platforms v. Cinemas: Winners & Losers in a Pandemic
Written by Aishwarya Ajayan & Ananth Krishna The decision by the producers of seven films, including those of major Bollywood release...
May 25, 20203 min read

Regarding Disaster Relief Fund allotment to Kerala
A brand new controversy has broken out regarding the allocation of disaster relief funds to States in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak....
Apr 4, 20202 min read

Lucifer – Realpolitik in a Superstar film
Lucifer, the Malayalam political action starring Mohanlal, has all the elements of a masala blockbuster (as it became the biggest earning...
Mar 16, 20204 min read

Analysing the 2019 Kerala Lok Sabha results
The 2019 General elections witnessed the incumbent dispensation being re-elected with a larger majority, a first for a non-Congress...
Jun 30, 20195 min read

The level of public discourse in India
It is a by word that gets quoted often, whenever an insolent or uncivil remark is made by a Politician, to say that this is a “new low in...
Mar 30, 20193 min read


Bad law and Democracy
A still from the film Gandhi (1982) “There are unjust laws as there are unjust men” ~ from the film Gandhi (1982) Background:This article...
Sep 23, 20184 min read


Reagan and Obama, on the same side.
It’s not a sight that we see often, but the Conservative Icon and the Liberal favorite fall on the same side of one issue:...
Jul 22, 20183 min read


Understanding ‘Shariat Courts’
The All India Muslim Personal Law Board recently announced that they are planning to open a Shariat ‘court’ in every single district in...
Jul 13, 20183 min read


Black Panther: Tradition v. Reform
I watched “Black Panther” the ‘critically acclaimed’ Marvel movie that was released a few weeks ago. It was quite an average superhero...
Mar 12, 20183 min read


Free markets and Women’s Empowerment
There are those who contend that feminism is incompatible with capitalism. But capitalist states have achieved many ‘feminist’ goals....
Mar 8, 20183 min read


Stronger State Intervention for women won’t work. Here’s why
The creation of a system that allows women the same set of opportunities cannot be achieved by state intervention. Why do I say that?...
Feb 20, 20186 min read