OPINION

Digital Hate, Now A Profitable Commodity

MOHAN J.DUTTA

Communicative capital, the consolidation of communicativeinfrastructures to drive profiteering, forms the face of twenty-first century neoliberalism. From Facebook to Amazon, digital communication is one of the most profitable sites of capitalist expansion.

Communicative capital is intertwined with financial and technological capital, drawing on the global networks of finance and simultaneously creating new sites and spaces for financialization.

Communicative capital works thro

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OPINION

Does The 20th Amendment Threaten Pluralism in Sri Lanka?

Jehan Perera

The draft 20th Amendment to the constitution is a tribute to the faith placed in President Gotabaya Rajapaksa by the members of the government and the general population. This proposed change in the supreme law of the country will provide him with virtually unfettered powers and dominance over parliament and all other institutions of state. The transfer of power away from parliament and to the president is reflective of the trust and confidence placed in the President Rajapaksa by the framers of

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ARTICLE

Centre Shirks Responsibility, "Abandons States" For Political Gain

Shikha Mukerjee

The dog-fight between the Centre and the states on financial resource sharing is moving toward a deeper and bigger crisis that would have catastrophic consequences. This is because the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government at the Centre has chosen to brawl over money rather than coordinate with states to manage the health crisis and its effect on peoples' lives.

By opting to effectively abandon states and asking them to find their own solutions to the difficulties following the pa

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ARTICLE

Anti-CAA Movement: How The 'OutSider' Discourse Dismisses Dissent

Akash Bhattacharya, Kriti Budhiraja

The Delhi Police investigation into the Delhi pogrom appears to draw a causal link between the protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), National Register of Citizens (NRC), and the associated National Population Register (NPR), and the deadly violence of February. Much ink has been spilt questioning this causality and asserting the democratic right to protest. Less has been said about another claim: the role of "outsiders" in hatching the so-called "riot conspira

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JUDICIAL APPOINTMENTS: RETROSPECT AND PROSPECT

Our Constitution has taken up the charge of transforming a hierarchical society into a modern equalitarian democracy. In a Parliamentary democracy based on a written Constitution, it is the role of the Judiciary (predominantly the Supreme Court) to interpret it. The court itself has supposed the role of the guardian and interpreter of the Constitution of India. For the purpose of interpretation, the independence of the Judiciary from any external source, including the political executive needs t...

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Issue in foreign Policy

CURRENT STRATEGIC RELATIONS OF CHINA AND PAKISTAN

Parthu Venkatesh P

Since 1951, Pakistan is the only country in South Asia after India to have diplomatic relations with People's Republic of China (PRC). The two states have time-tested relations and are known as the all-weather friends. China had provided tactical support to Pakistan during the 1965 war with India in which it was defeated. China had also helped Pakistan in the Wake of Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in. However, in February 2006, while addressing the Pakistan-China Business Forum, former President...

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Issue in foreign Policy

Are America's International Commitments trustworthy?

Nayan Anand

Since the inception of his term as the 45th President of the United States of America, Donald Trump has been a favourite of the media. Be his kooky Tweets that take the internet by storm or his determined approach towards putting America first, Trump sure knows how to catch the eyeballs of both world leaders and the public alike. In the past few months, Trump went a step ahead to shake the world by his strong messages of 'America First' policy. In the same regard, the global power landscape saw ...

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Gender

Right to Freedom of Choice, Right to Abortion: Ireland's new Abortion Referendum

Nayan Anand

Introduction

The recent time can be attributed to both progress and protests alike. Caught up in the progressive third wave of feminism, there are women all over the world now coming out on the streets to fight and demand basic rights that have been denied to them. Be it the abrogation of the infamous Triple Talaq rule or the dynamic demand for changes in the abortion laws of Ireland, positive changes in the gender scenario are now foreseeable. Speaking about one such vic...

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