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India’s Migrants: Exclusion by Design

Migrant workers fuel India’s growth yet remain excluded from its rewards. Policy silences and regional inequalities sustain their exploitation, and caste hierarchies have been reconfigured within…
▶08-Oct-2025
S. Irudaya Rajan, Arif Nizam

The Ganga is Drying Faster Than Ever

The Ganga is more than a river. It is a lifeline, a sacred symbol, and a cornerstone of South Asian civilisation. But it is drying faster than ever before, and the consequences of inaction are…
▶07-Oct-2025
Mehebub Sahana

Malayalam Cinema: New Voices, Enduring Questions

Malayalam cinema’s digital-era revival has earned acclaim, yet its fidelity to Kerala’s secular ideals remains uncertain. Dynamic and versatile, new-generation films often neglect history and dwell…
▶05-Oct-2025
C.S. Venkiteswaran

Reclaiming Arjuna from a Century of Obedience

The RSS has sought to replace Arjuna’s ethical hesitation with ritualised obedience, recasting the Bhagavad Gita to sanctify unthinking certainty. This is India’s present crisis, at the centenary of…
▶30-Sep-2025
Pradeep Bhargava

Lessons of Khadi from a Century Ago

Mahatma Gandhi saw justice and equity as indivisible from non-violence, linking mass politics with social reconstruction. Though often dismissed, his focus on khadi highlights democracy’s deeper task…
▶01-Oct-2025
Venu Madhav Govindu

Witch Hunts, Autocracy, and the Age of Algorithmic Empires

As cyber empires tighten control, digital platforms spread unseen violence that colonises the mind. Yet counter-movements are emerging—decentralised tools restoring openness, autonomy, and resistance…
▶29-Sep-2025
Asokakumar V.

Naming, Caste, and the Struggle for Equality

Dropping offensive terms for Dalits without dismantling caste changes appearances, not reality. True dignity arises when communities name themselves, shifting from state correction to self-…
▶25-Sep-2025
Sahil Hussain Choudhury

When Injustice Prevails

An examination of 8 well-known terror cases which resulted in acquittals reveals how innocent Muslims are arrested, often tortured, and then suffer prolonged trials. They are eventually acquitted by…
▶25-Sep-2025
Darab Farooqui

Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana: Real Welfare or Tokenism?

Despite substantially expanding the number of banks accounts , the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana delivers little real inclusion. Accounts serve mainly insurance sales, not credit or security. Weak…
▶19-Sep-2025
Kshipra Jain, Manish Sinsinwar

Gen-Z and Nepal’s Ongoing Struggle for Change

With unprecedented speed, violence, and destruction, the Gen-Z uprising in Nepal ended in euphoria with the government forced to resign and the appointment of an interim prime minister of the…
▶22-Sep-2025
Krishna P. Adhikari, David N. Gellner

The Bugs Fighting Superbugs

As antibiotics increasingly fail against dangerous bacterial infections, a century-old solution from the past, bacteriophage therapy, is making a comeback. India’s vast phage diversity offers a rare…
▶18-Sep-2025
Sudipta Mondal

Relocating Tigers, Displacing Tigers

In a wildlife reserve in Chhattisgarh, villagers see plans to relocate tigers as doubly unjust, displacing by force both humans and tigers into areas that they do not belong. The injustice to humans…
▶11-Sep-2025
Sharib Zeya