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Feb 24, 20215 min read
Why we should dissolve Puducherry
It makes little sense to continue administering a three pronged entity tied together by a vague “French” cultural identity. V....
Jan 7, 20215 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...
Dec 22, 202012 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 12, 20205 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...
Sep 20, 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...
Jan 19, 20186 min read
Stereotyping dissidents
Jordan Peterson, “controversial” clinical psychologist A recent interview of Jordan B Peterson, a clinical psychologist on Channel 4 news...
Apr 15, 20173 min read
Sedition,Tweets and journalism.
Some thoughts on the recent “controversy” Gautam Gambhir’s tweet. The tweet in question: The reaction to this tweet by journalists in the...
Mar 29, 20173 min read
A welcome break for Kerala
The Transport Minister of Kerala Shri A.K. Saseendran resigned on Sunday, just hours after a newly launched private channel aired an...
Feb 17, 20174 min read
The Liberal World Order, under crisis?
Nopes. Xi Jinping, the new leader of the ‘free world’ The results of the Brexit and the US Elections – combined with the rising tide of...
Dec 13, 20154 min read
Climate Change: The Politics
Responding to a question in the Democratic Presidential Debate, Bernie Sanders, an independent Senator form Vermont, responded that...