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Sunday, March 15, 2026
TopicLeft politics

Topic: Left politics

Between idealism & survival: The Left’s long life in Bihar & its electoral pragmatism

Despite criticism, pragmatism makes the Left endure in Bihar as seen in the 2020 poll results & that too at a time when its existence is restricted to small pockets in India.

JNU—the making and unmaking of an Indian university

JNU was meant to be an ‘entirely new type of university’ with a robust spirit of critique. Its anti-establishment character has, however, changed dramatically, especially in last 10 yrs.

Watch CutTheClutter: Trudeau’s resignation highlights a broader political trend—fall of the Left

In Episode 1584 of #CutTheClutter, ThePrint Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta examines reasons that led to Trudeau’s fall, a new face for Canada & why Left is losing ground in democracies.

Kerala Left is becoming indistinguishable from Right—turncoats, ideological erosion, hypocrisy

It is a fallacy to believe that Keralites are cut from some different cloth, that there is no scope for sectarian thought.

Why I didn’t call myself a JNU-ite for 37 yrs. But now something has changed: Yogendra Yadav

Even though I carried a jhola and had a beard, I didn’t associate with Left politics in JNU. Then a desperate Modi regime zeroed in on the university.

On Camera

Gulf conflict pushes Dubai diamond traders to eye Surat for rough stone auctions. But there are hurdles

Industry leaders say India’s complicated customs process and GST levies are deterrents for traders to come to Surat for auctions.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.