The ideology of the Left took over the world in the early 20th century, especially after the Russian Revolution in 1917, when people across the world began to believe that a society based on equality was possible.
Some of the states most worried about falling fertility are precisely those that have long depended on workers from higher-fertility states to keep their factories, construction sites and cities running.
What my friend described so poetically two decades ago may explain how 1.4 billion Indians survive eating unhygienic food at millions of such eateries.
A teenager who becomes an addict, a family that spirals into poverty, a neighbourhood where a new criminal economy takes ground.
“Ask him what freedom has given him,” I said to my friend, with a sense of exasperation. The pathos of that moment would have shaken the conviction of even the most ardent optimist.
While some schools were preparing children to write code, a skill that would help create India’s storied middle class, the rest of us were learning computers through cybercafe chats and surfing sessions.
Ideology and Its Contradictions
No Easy Choices In Democracy
Integrated indigenous systems can often generate greater combat effectiveness than even superior foreign platforms operating in isolation.
It is difficult to predict whether the political order shaped by the BJP will endure as long as the Congress system did
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