Explore Plato's life, his philosophical impact, and his travels to Sicily, along with key ideas on justice and the ideal ...

The government, Opposition parties argued, hasn’t explained how it will deal with situations when a ruling party loses majority in a State or at the Centre. Congress president Mallikarjun ...

B.R. Ambedkar explained the purpose of Article 355, keeping in mind the federal character of our polity, that if the Centre is to interfere in the State’s administration under Article 356 ...

ANC/DA agreement made GNU possible. The reason why it was possible to create the Government of National Unity (GNU) and why it has an element of stability is that the two major minority parties, the ...

Com. Sitaram Yechury’s demise is a big blow to Indian democracy and secular polity in general and the revolutionary movement of the working class in particular. As general secretary of the CPM ...

In his 2015 state of the Union Address ... We see the same bias today in use of terms like “national divorce” as if the polity known as “the United States” were some sort of family unit. We are then ...

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