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“I belong to a generation that is fortunate enough to have met many men and women who fought in the Indian freedom movement. The one who left the deepest impression on me is Lakshmi Sahgal. She lived in the present and planned for struggles in the future,” says the author.
Unlike Europe, the speakers of hundreds of different languages in India agreed to belong to a single nation because the Constitution promised them freedom of expression, making it mandatory on the state to encourage languages ‘without harming other languages’.
‛Speech at the INDIA Alliance Conclave on June 8’; ‛Rahul Gandhi’s Call for Resistance Echoes Gandhi’s Vision of Swaraj’: The abiding relevance of Rahul’s idea of resistance in the wake of the BJP capturing the institutions of the State and mounting anger of people flow from Mahatma Gandhi’s idea of Swaraj, one aspect of which is anchored in resistance.
‛Trump’s Iran Disaster an Even Bigger US Strategic Defeat Than Vietnam: Expert’: Paul Musgrave says that the damage done to the United States’ reputation and credibility in the wake of the Iran war are significantly more severe than anything the country suffered in the wake of Vietnam. Also: ‛Iran Defeated the US Empire. What Happens Next?’.
‛Gaza Post-Ceasefire Death Toll Surpasses 1,000 Amid Ongoing Israeli Attacks: What We Know’; ‛Israel Killed More Palestinians in the Occupied West Bank During the Gaza Genocide Than in the Previous 17 Years: Oxfam’.
Newsreports disclose that ground-level enumerators are being systematically pressured by senior officials to alter, revise, and falsify data that accurately reflects the lived conditions of India’s most marginalised citizens, and to replace truthful enumeration with figures that serve the political interests of the ruling dispensation.
‛Nehru and Modi: An Odious Comparison’; ‛Modi’s Obsession with Headline Management Won’t Buy Him the Immortality That He Craves’; ‛Why the RSS’s Vishwaguru Vision Collapses Under Its Own Hypocrisy’.
True sovereignty demands the independence to call out hostile actions against one’s citizens, regardless of the perpetrator’s geopolitical stature. PM Modi’s absolute silence exposes how deeply constrained Indian foreign policy has become by its strategic embrace of Washington.
Failing to remove the Essential Commodities Act through the farm laws due to the farmers’ agitation, the Modi Government is now adopting a different strategy. The FCI is contracting out food grain storage to private companies – Adani Agri Logistics Ltd and Leap India Food & Logistics Private Limited.
‛Bulldozers at Midnight: The Jadavpur Eviction and the Resistance That Refused to Yield’; ‛Bonbibi vs the BJP’: Bengal has a long culture of shared identities, layered histories and mixed rituals; all that is entering a political era powered by Hindutva consolidation and growing suspicion toward the Muslim other. Will secular Bengal survive?
Official SIR data from 14 States and UTs does not fully add up. The SIR exercise began with 61.38 crore existing electors in all states. After 5.29 crore final deletions and 1.87 crore additions through Forms 6 and 6A, the final roll should have been 57.96 crore electors. However, the published roll shows only 55.17 crore electors, leaving an unexplained gap of 2.79 crore!
After a decade-long gap, India turned back to long-term coal power contracts in 2024. Some states tailored the tender conditions. The Adani Group won big.
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