India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) took a thrashing yesterday in elections to the state government in Delhi.
The Hindu supremacist and fanatically neoliberal party of Prime Minister Narendra Modi won just three seats out of 70, with the rest taken by the centre-left Aam Aadmi (Common Man) Party (AAP) of former tax official Arvind Kejriwal.
Victory for the self-styled anti-corruption party indicates how fed up Indians are with the endemic corruption of the BJP and the once omnipotent Congress party.
Following the resignation of Nepali Prime Minister KP Oli amid mass youth-driven protests, different narratives have circulated which simplify and misrepresent the complexities and reality on the ground in Nepal at the roots of this crisis, argue VIJAY PRASHAD and ATUL CHANDRA
Indian communist leader MA Baby considers the chilling escalation of violence against minorities and increasing impunity for their attackers under the Modi regime


