December 26, 2025 5:53 pm
One century after the Helgoland breakthrough, quantum principles have entered popular culture through the mythical Schrödinger cat. So profound was this work that every reigning doctrine — from communism and Buddhism to Vedanta — took positions on what quantum science means for its worldview
December 17, 2025 7:45 am
The conditions that once gave rise to communism — deep inequality, agrarian distress, precarious labour, the persistence of feudal values, and global economic turbulence — are sharper than ever. There is also renewed global interest in socialist and left-wing ideas, even in advanced economies
October 27, 2025 6:03 pm
The state’s Left legacy, the re-orientation of politics and economy under the ‘New Left’, the existing robust welfare system and a turnaround in the economy all contributed to this success
October 24, 2025 10:03 am
The activist, Saurav Banerjee, founder of a youth collective, was granted bail last week
May 02, 2025 8:01 pm
The alternative is not a return to classical neoliberalism, which itself nurtured inequality and imperialist domination, but an organised effort towards socialism — rooted in the legacies of Marx, Lenin and the revolutionary movements they inspired
December 29, 2024 3:02 pm
The "political friendship" between Dravidianism and communism may have taken the occasional break, M K Stalin said in an apparent reference to alliance regrouping, "but the ideological friendship will continue under all circumstances."
June 26, 2023 4:24 pm
On the centenary week of the USSR's official creation, a look at a famous quote from Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels that inspired the Soviet experiment. It also finds relevance in the World History section of the UPSC syllabus, under GS paper 1.
July 15, 2020 9:19 pm
Milous Jakes had been general secretary of the party for only two years before the Velvet Revolution led by the late writer, Vaclav Havel, ended 40 years of communist rule.
March 11, 2019 12:53 am
It is time to thank God for services provided and jettison the concept.
October 22, 2018 12:34 am
No belief system is worth veering to the extremes for. The political history of countries like Russia and Saudi Arabia bears testimony.


