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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
‘Cuba Is Not Afraid’; ‘Democracy Under Siege: Popular Participation and Socialist Renewal in Cuba in a Time of Crisis’; ‘What I Saw in Cuba Was Resilience’; ‘Cuba Will Survive: A Diary’; ‘“Cuba Is Not Alone”: Inspiring Days of Solidarity in Havana’; ‘A Continental Call from Africa: Standing with Cuba Against Imperialist Aggression’.
Bhagat Singh is probably the only one from amongst our freedom struggle heroes, who can be celebrated by both—India and Pakistan. It is possible because he stood for a non-sectarian and egalitarian world.
Just 3 weeks of war can’t cause such a dramatic worsening of our current account balance; it is the anticipation of worsening that has led to exodus of finance from India and the rupee’s decline.
‘Wealth of India’s Top Five Billionaires Rose 400% in Six Years: Report’; ‘Inequality Is a Political Choice. A New Wealth Tracker Shows How India Could Do Better.’ Also: Executive Summary of the report, Wealth Tracker India 2026.
‘The Law and Reality: Are Dalits Not Dalits if They Convert to Christianity or Islam?’: Could the Supreme Court have ended up engineering a profound collision between theories of constitutional jurisprudence and the bloody, dirt-caked realities of rural India? Also: ‘Explainer: What the Law Says on “Scheduled Caste” Status of Christians and Muslims’.
‘Withdraw Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill, 2026 Now’; ‘The Curious Logic of the Transgender Persons Amendment Bill’; ‘The Transgender Bill Doesn’t Amend Rights, It Erases Us’; ‘Satrangi Salaam: A Community-Led Protest Against the Amended Transgender Law’; ‘Petition Urges President to Withhold Assent to the Regressive Bill’.
‘Rainbow Representation Reaches India: A New Moment in Democratic Politics’. Also: ‘The History of LGBTQIA+ Leaders’: The melting of homo-ostracism is not just a victory for the LGBTQIA+ community; it is a victory for the principle that in a true democracy, the only thing that should be “incompatible with tradition” is the exclusion of its own citizens.
‘Noose Tightens, Alarmingly, Around Our Digital Freedoms’: MeitY’s draft IT rules are only one piece of the puzzle of digital authoritarianism in India. Also: ‘Is the Freedom to Express Oneself in India Going Down the Toilet?’.
‘Is Modi Govt Fast-Tracking Women’s Reservation Bill to Push Delimitation, Which It Is Finding Tough to Sell?’. Also: ‘The Many Angles to Implementing Women’s Reservation in Politics’: Is women’s reservation being used to push Lok Sabha expansion to 816? The Nari Vandan Adhiniyam must not be instrumentalised.
‘Lost Land and the State’s Warped Priorities: Why Adivasis Are Resisting in Odisha’; ‘Tijmali: An Undeclared Conflict Zone?’; ‘Stop Attacks on Villagers Resisting Mining in Rayagada and Kalahandi Districts of Odisha!’.
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