Mao

In a new exhibition of Walter Bosshard's photographs, glimpses from Gandhi and Mao's revolutions

Walter Bosshard was the first European photojournalist to reach Mao Zedong. He is also known for his striking intimate portraits of Gandhi

Bhima Koregaon raids: 'Punished for being Varavara Rao's son-in-law,' says K Satyanarayana after police search his home

Satyanarayana was given no prior intimation regarding the raid and him along with his family were imprisoned inside the house for the whole day. The police confiscated the laptops, hard discs, pen drives and all the academic materials from his house and blocked his phone and email.

Kerala political killings are symptomatic of communist regimes' propensity to use violence as tool of state machinery

It should be a matter of concern for all the citizens of the country as to why violence such as that seen in Kerala happens only under communist regimes.

Donald Trump's 30 days in office: ​Bonhomie with Putin turns Nixon-Mao world order on its head

US President Donald Trump seems to be wrecking all the alliances friendships that the US created, over decades, while winning enemies all over the world. If he survives politically, this decade will end with far more troubled and disastrous world than he inherited.

Art professor kicked out from university in China for criticizing Mao online

A Chinese professor has been sacked after he criticised Chairman Mao Zedong on his 123rd birthday in an commentary he posted online that enraged leftists.

Chinese authorities send man behind bars for criticising land reforms

A man who wrote a social media post critical of China's decades-old land reform policies was sentenced to a year in prison, reports said.

Five decades after China's cultural revolution, a few regret and apologise

As a teenager, Wang Keming felt nothing but contempt for the older peasant his village singled out for collective persecution in 1970. Stirred by Mao Zedong's radical ideology and inured to the rampant violence of China's Cultural Revolution, he beat the man bloody and saw nothing wrong with it.

Kim Jong's purge puts him in company of Stalin, Hitler, Mao

For people familiar with the way that dictators such as Stalin, Hitler and Mao methodically ousted their opponents, the purging and execution of the No. 2 official in North Korea is nothing new.