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Reports and tributes after the passing away of the historian Bipan Chandra in Delhi

The trajectory of civil-military ties will remain dialectical. It may be push and pull, two steps forward one step back, but it’s not back to square one.

Corruption in NREGA works has steadily declined in recent years. There are important lessons here that need to be extended to other domains

In the backdrop of intesifying assaults on people’s movements and freedom of expression, people of grassroots struggles, eminent intellectuals and academicians, and civil society activists are converging in New Delhi this weekend to highlight and discuss the challenges to the Indian democracy.

WAF reminds the dharna democrats that democracy is a long term, incremental process, and not the result of a particular election. Street Spectacles while legitimate for protesting grievances can never be a substitute for Parliamentary representation with its built-in self-correctives. The many Islamist militant and sectarian groups in Pakistan are evidence of the difference between street power and parliamentary representation and the worth of both.