Ranjan Solomon

FAO’s Agricola Medal for Modi: A Cruel Irony?

UN's Food and Agricultural Organisation 's honour for Modi sparks debate Over ‘Rewarding Failure’ HOW does an expert UN body such as the Food and...

Melony, Modi and Candy Diplomacy: The Crisis of Political Optics in India

WHO knew that Melody chocolates, those tiny rectangular pieces of sugary nostalgia that many Indians grew up enjoying, would unexpectedly enter the rough and...

The Great Escape: Gautam Adani, Corporate Power, and the Crisis of Indian Democracy

‘Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.’ (Honoré de Balzac) IN the 1963 classic film The Great Escape, Allied prisoners of war tunnel painstakingly beneath...

Oslo, Prime Minister Modi, and the Crisis of India’s Democratic Image

India does not become weaker when journalists ask difficult questions abroad. It becomes weaker when its representatives appear unable or unwilling to answer them PRIME...

When the Bench Shows Contempt for Activism, Democracy is Diminished

THE words of the Chief Justice of India are never ordinary words. They carry constitutional weight, moral authority, and institutional consequence. That is precisely...

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