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If India flailing or failed? And is federalism saving some Indians from the Union government’s collapse?

Gulak, IPOB and a Nation Besieged Gulak, IPOB and a Nation Besieged In his piece on Tuesday, ‘The Death of Ahmed Gulak’, Dr Reuben Abati attested to the character of the late Special Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan with whom he worked. He also spoke about the danger his gruesome murder portends, especially at this period in our nation. I didn’t know Gulak as well as Reuben, but I found the deceased politician and lawyer a very friendly man with whom I enjoyed a good laugh whenever ...

Despite his oft-stated resolve to repel Vladimir Putin’s anti-Western campaign, President Joe Biden is in danger of being hoodwinked by the Kremlin.

ISSUE DATE: May 17, 2021 UPDATED: May 8, 2021 20:55 IST India Today Magazine Issue May 17, 2021 On May 16, 2014, Narendra Modi powered himself and his party to a historic win, marking a return to a single-party majority after 25 years of coalition governments. His feat was a result not just of his stirring oratory but also because he held out hope at a time the Manmohan Singh-led UPA government was embroiled in corruption scandals and afflicted by a paralysis of governance. On May 13, 2013, we ...

Amjed Jaaved With over 2, 38,000 COVID-19 patients already dead (official estimate) since March 2020, India presents a horrible picture. About 4000 people are dying every day.Experts are skeptical of the government’s figures of cumulative and daily deaths. They point out that most COVID-19 deaths remain unreported and unrecorded. Murad Banaji, a senior lecturer in mathematics at Middlesex University agrees, ‘80% of India’s COVID-19 deaths are  are missing and have not  been picked up by...

Moscows war on history Janusz Bugajski © Provided by Washington Examiner In the wake of Russia’s Victory Day military parade on May 9, Russian lawmakers plan to ban any comparisons between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. The parade marks the 76 th anniversary of the end of World War Two and, as is traditional, will be held in Red Square. The bill follows President Vladimir Putin’s orders to prohibit publicly equating the role of the two collaborationist powers during t...

On today’s episode of The Backstory, host Lee Stranahan and co-host John Kiriakou discussed current events, including closing arguments in the Derek Chauvin trial...

A less cold war with Russia Print this article The Russian government is escalating its confrontations with the West in order to test the Biden administrations resolve. Contrary to some assertions, however, we are not witnessing a second Cold War. The Cold War was essentially a stalemate until the Soviet empire imploded. Instead, President Vladimir Putin is engaged in an intimidating international offensive to regain world stature, reconstruct a Muscovite empire, and divide the West. Russia is...

  If the ever-present Farage represents this broken country best, for his denialism, his racism and his blazored bigotry, it also points to how the media operates through what Mark Fisher called: “the solitary urinal of male subjectivity.” And so the British media is in full meltdown. Ian Murray, executive director of the Society of Editors, has resigned after publishing a ridiculous articles saying that it was untrue that sections of the UK press were bigoted, claiming “It is not accept...

The terrible reality is this “failed state” is Nicola Sturgeon’s Scotland. Almost 14 years after the SNP took power, the state of Scotland is woeful. It is an amazing irony it has taken an allegedly politically motivated attempt to put Alex Salmond behind bars for Scots to finally wake up to what is happening. For Salmond to imply the state of Scottish governance makes it unfit to be independent is astonishing. The SNP has relied on the perpetual constitutional debate over independence. B...