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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
While the budget outlay is stagnant in real terms, the FM has announced a hike in capital expenditure — of a whopping 37.4%. This is the third year in succession that she has announced a big hike in capex. She claims this “enhance growth potential and job creation”. Will it?
The decision to drop the Gandhi assassination from the NCERT’s history textbook just cannot extinguish the Mahatma’s memory.
The message flashed on my phone informing death of a Delhi University, Philosophy Assistant Professor, Samarveer Singh ‘by suicide’ in his rented accommodation near the University! They say if a country is to be sent downhill, destroy its academics …
The city of Calicut, or Kozhikode, has been a bastion of Hindu-Muslim unity for centuries where a syncretic Malayali identity trumps religious divisions.
Born in 1984 and about to turn 40 in 2024, the MST has known, since its inception, that government is like beans, it only works in a pressure cooker.
The movement against attacks on pension is showing great resilience, but needs to move towards general strikes in order to win.
In December 2023, the infamous Monroe Doctrine will be 200 years old. For some people, the name refers simply to a long and complex foreign policy document with constitutional status, but it is far more than that.
“Our origins are of the earth. And so there is in us a deeply seated response to the natural universe, which is part of our humanity,” writes Carson.
Three poems, on the occasion of International Workers’ Day.
The new ‘edition’ of textbooks released by the NCERT has deleted chapters on Mughal history and this raised a storm. History does not exist for the liking and disliking of individuals, it just is. It exists for us to learn from. If it offends someone, even better. Because then one is less likely to repeat it.
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