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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’.
Among Einstein’s biographers—there are hundreds of them—and in the mainstream media, his extensive political writings on Israel and Zionism have been, at best, swept under the rug, or at worst, completely distorted, identifying him as a supporter of the State of Israel.
In assuming a syncretic name while defending a Muslim man, Deepak Kumar affirmed the possibility of a dynamic, internally plural identity, sustained by a collective memory of interreligious sociability as intrinsic to the good life of a society.
‛Why a Question and Satire Unsettled Modi’: A Norwegian journalist’s question to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the viral rise of the “Cockroach Janata Party” shook his government’s tightly controlled political narrative last week. Also: ‛Cockroach Janta Party Memes Have Sent Everyone’s Antennae Tingling’.
Seventy-three days into the Iran war, the Prime Minister asked Indians to cut fuel, defer foreign travel, postpone gold, reduce edible oil, revive work-from-home, and buy Indian. The question is why this crisis arrived so unprepared for, after eleven years of Make in India, Atmanirbhar Bharat, and Aatmanirbharta.
Prudence demands that Delhi tread wearily, as variables are at work and we have no real reason to annoy the Saudi Kingdom, which hosts the single biggest concentration of NRIs in entire West Asia. Only fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
The statistics released by the government paint a troubling picture. From 2019 to 2023, India arrested 10,440 individuals using its strictest anti-terror law, but only 335 were convicted. This number was shared by the Union Home Ministry itself during a session in Parliament in December 2025.
More than 600 citizens and civil society groups wrote to Chief Justice of India Surya Kant on Friday, May 22, taking exception to his remarks on May 11 criticising environmentalists for filing petitions in courts and for suggesting that they are stalling development. ‘Environmentalist’ is not a term to delegitimise efforts to protect India’s natural…
‛Hate Speech Gets a New Safe Zone’: The Supreme Court’s April 29 judgment condemns coded incitement in theory while clearing its most powerful practitioners in practice, all the while calling it “judicial restraint”. Also: ‛Is SC’s “Existing Law” Argument on Hate Speech Enough?’.
Seventy-five years after the Constitution came into force, India’s first uniform civil code laws have emerged—but as instruments of Hindutva rather than gender justice. Weaponised to stigmatise Muslims and expand state surveillance, they betray the constitutional vision of equity.
‛School Closures, Student Deaths, Children Out of School: The State of Public Education’; ‛Niti Aayog Flags Poor Student Retention, Learning Outcomes in Report’; ‛Government Report Reveals Stark Infrastructure Gap in Indian Schools’; ‛57% Schools Have Functional Computers, 53% Have Internet Access: Education Ministry’.
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