Siyona Shaju

Sep 20, 2024 | countercurrents.org | VladislavB Sotirovic |Bharat Dogra |Siyona Shaju |Arun Mitra

Power in politicsPower is the ability to make people, states, movements, organizations, or things do what they would not otherwise have done. It is a matter of fact that politics is seen to be about might rather than right.  It can be said that, in essence, politics is power or, in other words, the ability of some international actor to get the desired results of his/her political behavior by using whatever instruments (legal or not, moral or not, etc.).

May 9, 2024 | countercurrents.org | VladislavB Sotirovic |Bharat Dogra |Siyona Shaju |Prem Singh

For overwhelming Western political analysts, journalists, scientists, etc., the disappearance of the USSR in 1990/91 was symbolized overdramatically by the physical destruction of the Berlin Wall followed by the removal/destruction of status/monuments devoted to the communist leaders and communist ideology.

Mar 7, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Bhabani Nayak |Aditya Modak |Rakesh Shukla |Siyona Shaju

There are numerous sources of political leadership in Indian politics, spanning from familial political legacies to issues rooted in economics, society, and culture. Political leadership emerges from various quarters, including familial lineages, socio-economic concerns, religious affiliations, ethnic identities, cultural movements, linguistic divisions, and ideological mobilizations.

Mar 7, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Rakesh Shukla |Akshay Bajad |Siyona Shaju |Bharat Dogra

Under the Constitution, Parliament is entrusted with the responsibility of making laws. At times an easier route to change the legal jurisprudence to sail with the interests of the establishment seems to be through the judiciary.  The Covid epidemic and the draconian powers under the Disaster Management Act were opportunistically used to repeal 29 legislations providing protection to workers like the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947, Factories Act and Minimum Wages Act.

Mar 7, 2024 | countercurrents.org | VladislavB Sotirovic |Bharat Dogra |Sumanta Banerjee |Siyona Shaju

IntroductionIn mainstream International Relations, there is a clear binary of hard and soft power; hard power is perceived by states to be more impactful, while soft power is more with regard to persuasion with the help of culture and ideology, where states use it to their advantage domestically or internationally. While attaining hard power is more straightforward, states must earn soft power and should have the ability to build upon it.