The question is not simply how much we spend on defence, but what we understand defence and security to mean, says SIMON BRIGNELL
IN recent years, Hindutva politics has caused long-term damage to India and Indians.
The so called 56-inch macho PM, the propaganda master, manufactures and survives all political crises including the current mismanagement of the coronavirus pandemic in India.
In spite of deaths and destitutions, the social, cultural, economic and religious base of Hindutva is intact.
Indian students have fought for the right to education, schooling us all in the process. Comrades from the Students’ Federation of India (SFI) — UK comment on the resistance and its ripples here
After Zohran Mamdani’s electoral win, BHABANI SHANKAR NAYAK points to the forgotten role of US communists in New York’s radical politics
Modi has rolled out the carpet for the Taliban in New Delhi — and we shouldn’t be surprised. They have more in common than you might think, argues Bhabani Shankar Nayak
Following the resignation of Nepali Prime Minister KP Oli amid mass youth-driven protests, different narratives have circulated which simplify and misrepresent the complexities and reality on the ground in Nepal at the roots of this crisis, argue VIJAY PRASHAD and ATUL CHANDRA



