Political Punchline

The Act East Policy (AEP) has long been discussed in India’s foreign policy circles; it was upgraded from the Look East Policy (LEP) shortly after Narendra Modi was elected Prime Minister in 2014. Since then, India’s engagement has expanded beyond the Southeast Asian region to include the broader Indo-Pacific region as well as with East Asian countries. The AEP is India’s ambitious strategy for countering China’s influence in the Indo-Pacific region while bringing development to the North East Region (NER).  The NER has received particular attention during the policy implementation of AEP, which has increased connectivity. Although the region is troubled by the oppressive Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA), which has undermined the region’s democracy. The region has a long history of secessionism, ethnic conflicts, and widespread illegal drug trafficking from neighbouring countries. These challenges and the Hindutva project of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Rashtri...

Described by The Wall Street Journal as the “ the man Vladimir Putin fears most ” Alexei Anatolievich Navalny is currently Russia’s most popular opposition leader. Navalny has been attacked, jailed and detained several times. He is a trained lawyer, anti-corruption activists, and blogger. His blogging has highlighted the cronyism of the Russian oligarch’s and has vehemently criticized Vladimir Putin’s authoritarian regime. After getting recovered from a nerve agent attack. Navalny returned from Germany and was again arrested by the Russian authorities. Later, he was sentenced to prison for two and a half years which ignited a nationwide protest. Source: Reuters Navalny got into politics in 2000 after joining the liberal Yabloko party , a Russian liberal and generally pro-Western political party. During the period he voiced for ideals of liberalism. However, he was expelled from the party for nationalist activities and couldn’t bring any political mileage from that time. After fai...

A person worshipped by the rights as God and ridiculed by the left as extremist. Olavo de Carvalho, a self-taught philosopher, a former journalist, and a former communist was the architect of Brazil’s far right leader Jair Bolsonaro’s victory in the 2018 presidential election. Olavo was an inspiration not only to Bolsonaro but also for his two sons Flavio and Eduardo. The political crises before the 2018 elections had already impacted the state structures of Brazil. Mistrust of its presidency and national congress was growing among the peoples, democracy was is in peril, and the crises driven by intolerance and rising social polarization. Distrust between the government and citizens was deepening. It was then the far right began to rise not only in Brazil but across Latin America, which has put Brazil under the global spotlight, of following the global lurch to the right. Source: Brazil's president Jair Messias Bolsonaro,  Rio Negro Jair Messias Bolsonaro, a se...