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‛Press Freedom in India: “Caged Voices, Silenced Truths”’: On World Press Freedom Day 2026, the Free Speech Collective assembled a deeply layered account of repression, incarceration, and systemic silencing of jailed journalists like Rupesh Kumar Singh and Irfan Mehraj. Also: ‛Corporate Control and Political Pressure: The Twin Pillars of Media Decline in India’.
‛Why Chhattisgarh’s Midday Meal Workers Have Not Given Up Their Fight for Better Pay’: Their work is crucial for children’s wellbeing, but they earn less than Rs 70 a day. A two-month strike sought to secure them a daily wage of at least Rs 350. Also: ‘Govt Doesn’t Seem to Care for Those Taking Care of Country’s Mothers, Children’.
The 16th Finance Commission has avoided estimating the Vertical Fiscal Imbalance which would have given an idea of the gap in the States’ resources; elsewhere the Commission has made changes to the formula on distribution of tax revenue among States, not all of which are convincing.
The story from Odisha is not just a reminder about a brother and his dead sister. It is about the distance between policy and practice.
Against the Brahminical imagination that hardened socially contingent exclusion into a hereditary condition, B.R. Ambedkar proposed Navayana—a new Buddhism—an inheritance transformed by the demands of justice.
Gandhi’s transformative walks, particularly the contrasting Dandi and Noakhali marches, serve as profound reflections on the intersection of personal redemption and political action. The contemporary political landscape in India reveals a troubling disconnection from Gandhi’s principles of truth and nonviolence.
‛Explained: Why Uproar Over Delimitation, More LS Seats Using Women’s Quota as “Cover”’; ‛Christophe Jaffrelot on Delimitation and Modi Govt’s Plans for Centralised “Akhand Bharat”’; ‛Delimitation Could Create Permanent Winners and Losers in Representation’; ‛Ambedkar, Rajaji’s Fears of North-South Divide Resonate in Modi Govt’s Delimitation Agenda’.
‛Not for Failure to Push Bills Through Parliament, Modi Should Have Apologised to Women Over Bigger Failures’; ‛Please, Modi ji, Don’t Shed Tears for India’s Women’; ‛BJP’s “Men’s Reservation Bill” Defeated, But When Will Women’s Reservation Win?’.
The science is clear: trees cool cities, stabilise ecosystems, and save lives. Yet, across India, amid record-breaking heat, millions of trees are being removed, turning a climate crisis into a public health emergency even as State agencies clear the way for environmental safeguards to be bent or discarded.
To remember Neela Bhagwat is to remember a voice that refused to settle into a single identity or a single form.
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