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Letter to the Editor: Identifying Indian Right

Strong nationalism is always a defining feature of our ideological leaning, says BJP spokesperson

In Karnataka's politics of identity, new CM Bommai has to strike balance

There is a land deal controversy to settle and river water disputes to negotiate but his first challenge will be forming a council of ministers that pleases everyone.

Did central planning end in July 1991?

Government picking winners is alive and well

Things India must do to be a functioning social democracy

If even a modest but growing social welfare package is to be affordable, the public sector has to perform or be disbanded so that the govt can shut down one of the two cash burners, writes T N Ninan

The ideology of social scientists: A complex balance

The conflict between liberty and equality is often central to ideological differences among social scientists

Sinofication of Buddhism: In Tibet, China wants more wealth, less Buddha

Beijing is investing heavily in Tibet, betting that new roads, jobs, better housing and improved access to education and healthcare will bring stability to the region.

Social democracy and capitalism: The fraught link

Different people mean different things when they talk of social democracy and its somewhat close kin, democratic socialism

Prospects of social democracy in a post-pandemic world

This should be seen as neither a straight prediction nor just wishful thinking, more a clear-eyed analysis of constraints and opportunities that social democrats may face or have to be prepared for

Plea in SC to remove 'socialist' and 'secular' from Constitution's preamble

The PIL said that the amendment made in 1976 was antithetical to the constitutional tenets as well as the historical and cultural theme of India

Modi, Williamson and Alesina

Williamson and Alesina were both economists who offered insights that India must follow over the next two decades. If it doesn't, it can resign itself to its current low-grade economic status.

Maoism: A Global History is a milestone in describing a harrowing legacy

Julia Lovell's book on Maoism is concerned with understanding the phenomenon of Maoism when it swept the globe, in some places politically and in most places ideologically and intellectually.

A question of answers

Book review of All the Wrong Turns: Perspectives on the Indian Economy

Capitalism reconsidered

Book review of CAPITAL AND IDEOLOGY

Towards a new 'road to serfdom'?

The classical liberal order is under threat from 'woke' progressives

Socialism's future may be its past

The spectre of socialism still evokes a fear of 'new totalitarianism'