End of liberal international Order?
The liberal international order may not be dead, but it is dying. Multilateralism too is waning, if not on its last legs. Globalization from...
Latin America’s post-new left is constantly reinventing
When ideas fail, Goethe says, words come in very handy. Words make worlds. However, as Thucydides cautions, in wars, words lose their meaning. We...
Claudia Sheinbaum makes history
The historic victory of Dr Claudia Sheinbaum with a 32 points margin over the combined opposition candidate Xochitl Galvez signifies that Mexico, the world’s...
Is tech industry still a boys’ club?
Authors: Ash Narain Roy and Jisha Jacob*
The Nobel Prize, says the 2022 literature laureate Annie Ernaux, is an institution “for men.” She further says...
Is India witnessing an unfederal moment?
“A single constitution for a country of many and varied sub-nationalities,” said veteran Indian bureaucrat Nirmal Kumar Mukarji, was “a centralizing anachronism.” The tissues...
Tide may be turning for African literature
Authors: Ash Narain Roy and Aishwarya Parihar
Introduction
First the Latin American and later the Indian writers stormed the global literary scene and became a vibrant...
The elephant that didn’t become a lion
In 2014, Narendra Modi stormed the national and international stage like a rockstar. One of the first decisions of the nationalist BJP government was...
Is federalism a moat against autocracy?
The rogues’ gallery of autocratic rulers has been growing for some years now. It is no more an age of much-reviled ‘tinpot’ dictators. Today,...
Meritocracy in the Age of Mediocrity
Authors: Ash Narain Roy and Sophia Thomas*
Meritocracy, political theorist Hannah Arendt famously says, “contradicts the principle of equality. Without equality, it is no less...
Outburst of Rage or moral outrage?
“Failure,” so goes the Chinese proverb, “is not falling down but refusing to get up.” Did the Arab Spring really fail? Ten years after...