RSS and the Emergency – 3 Articles
‘The Emergency and the Sangh Parivar’s Tacit Support to Indira Gandhi’; ‘RSS and the Emergency’; and: ‘Amid Preamble Debate, a Review of Jana Sangh’s Role in Retaining Emergency-Era Amendments’.
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The Emergency’s True Legacy: How JP’s Naivety Empowered the RSS
Fifty years after Indira Gandhi imposed the Emergency, history is turning a harsher gaze not just on her authoritarian turn but on Jayaprakash Narayan’s fateful alliance with Sangh. Legitimised by JP’s misjudgment, the RSS has wrecked India’s democracy, institutions and political culture.
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The Language Debate; Ambedkar and Periyar on Language – 2 Articles
‘Language Shaming and the Avoidable Burden of the Three-Language Formula’: The three-language formula is a political project that burdens India’s schoolchildren. Also: ‘What Ambedkar and Periyar Teach Us About Maharashtra’s Hindi Debate’.
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Deported in Silence: Mass Expulsion of Alleged Bangladeshis Without Due Process
Since May 7, over 2,000 individuals—mostly Bengali-speaking migrants—have been rounded up and covertly deported, bypassing legal safeguards. Growing backlash from courts and state governments has begun to challenge the legality, profiling and human cost of this.
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India’s Groundwater Running Dry – 2 Articles
‘As India’s Groundwater Runs Dry, Calls for Reform Grow’: The worsening water crisis highlights an urgent need for better groundwater governance in India. Also: ‘Scientists Raise Alarm as Rural Water Supply Goes from Depths to Debt’.
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Foreign University Delusions – 2 Articles
‘The Great Indian University Illusion’: India dreams of Ivy Leagues while gutting public universities and pricing out its best minds. A knowledge economy without knowledge is just PR. Also: ‘The Real Challenges of Foreign Campuses’.
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Inequality in Land Ownership and Flawed Land Reforms
Today India produces 34.6 crore tons of food grains and 30 crore litres of milk thanks to the hard work of our farmers. Yet, Indian farmer families are highly indebted and distressed.
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Interview: Lessons from an Analysis of UP Social Data on the Necessity of a Caste Census
As anti-reservation sentiments grow, only data, facts and accurate information can provide solutions, says professor in demography Srinivas Goli.
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Delhi’s Street Vendors Aren’t ‘Illegal’ – Sweeping Evictions Violate Rights, Crush Livelihoods
Nearly 20,000 stalls in Delhi have been removed since the beginning of May, according to the National Association of Street Vendors of India. Many of the evicted vendors possess “certificates of vending” – official documents that validate their right to sell goods in designated areas.
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Fragile Peace, War, and the People on the Border
The most recent round of India-Pakistan hostilities reaffirmed a stark truth—for border residents, war is a zero-sum game. They gain nothing, but lose their safety, property, livelihoods, and even lives.
