Losses by the long ruling Left Front in a series of local and national elections since 2008 cannot be explained without an understanding of the nature of

This paper attempts to analyse the pattern and determinants of fund utilisation under the Members of Parliament-Local Area Development Scheme by the Lok Sabha mps. It indicates that there are political business cycles in spending by mps.

Concerns about food security and apprehensions of future water scarcity are common to all the countries in the world. This paper focuses on the water issue between India and Bangladesh. Crisscrossed by the rivers and streams, Bangladesh is a water-abundant country with low-per capital water availability. Almost 94% of the water resources of the country originate beyond its borders, and that 54 rivers and streams flow into Bangladesh from India.

This essay integrates metaphysics, science, politics, political economy, and moral philosophy in order to explore the ways in which some Gandhian ideas, when given a genealogical reading in the dissenting thought of Early Modernity in Europe, might provide a deep basis for (a) diagnosing the religiosity of our own time, (b) making our secular ideals grounded in a more democratic mentality and cult

There is a clear alliance between the party of right reaction in West Bengal, the Trinamool Congress, and the Maoists as they try out a cynical strategy of violence to defeat the state