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Across villages in India, protests erupted in December 2025 after the Narendra Modi-led BJP government scrapped one of the largest social safety nets in the world and replaced it with a watered-down version.
‛Manipur Needs No More Repression or Coercion. It Needs a Deeper Understanding’: It seems the idea of “foreign hand” has become an excuse for not seeing the internal causes for the ongoing violence in Manipur. Also: ‛How to End the Sufferings of the People of Manipur?’.
‛India’s Education Scam: From Fake Data, to Fake Degrees and Fake Claims’: When rankings, patents, and enrolment numbers to obtain government benefits become ends in themselves, products of such a system will lead to compromised competence in laboratories, courtrooms, hospitals, and boardrooms. Also: ‛Why Academic Freedom in India Hangs Between Attacks and Resistance’.
Private school fees are 10 times government school fees, and nearly four in ten secondary students pay for coaching on top.
‛Notifying Families, Policing Choice: Gujarat’s Proposed Marriage Rules Expand State Power Over Intimacy’: A proposed amendment to Gujarat’s marriage law requires that blood relatives and the public be informed before registration of marriage. Courts have repeatedly held such requirements unconstitutional. Also: ‛Intercaste Marriages and the Unfinished Law’.
‛Why PESA, a Birsa Munda Legacy, Remains India’s Unfulfilled Commitment to Its Tribal Peoples’: PESA sought to restore the traditional autonomy of tribal societies and empower them to use local resources according to their customs and needs. But this never suited today’s politicians, capitalists, and bureaucrats. Also: ‛Why Self-Governance for Tribal Communities Remains an Unfinished Agenda’.
The celebration of the Kshatriya identity by the RSS-BJP & certain representatives of communities like Marathas, Jats, Yadavs, Thevars, and Nairs illustrates the concept of ‘Kshatriyaisation’. This assertion of caste pride helps consolidate political support while reinforcing existing caste hierarchies.
The science is clear: trees cool cities, stabilise ecosystems, and save lives. Yet, across India, amid record-breaking heat, millions of trees are being removed, turning a climate crisis into a public health emergency even as State agencies clear the way for environmental safeguards to be bent or discarded.
This Earth Day three environmental experts share stories about times when environmental action succeeded in saving the planet—and explain why this can be done again.
The current failing effort to make Iran out to be a major threat to world peace starts the clock at 1979 in its propaganda effort to justify U.S. aggression against Teheran. This deliberately overlooks the events of 1953, when a joint U.S.-British effort overthrew the then secular Iranian government in order to take over the country’s oil industry.
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