The 2026 delimitation risks widening India’s north–south divide by reducing southern representation. Reviving B.R. Ambedkar’s idea of smaller states could restore balance, fairness, and cooperative…
Narendra Modi's decade in power has seen an erosion of democracy alongside soaring inequality. While religious nationalism diverts public attention, the super-rich add to their wealth. Economic…
The EBCs have been the unsung heroes of Bihar’s economy. Yet, their political influence has not matched their numbers. The 2023 caste census changed the game, highlighting their demographic…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Exercises like the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls presage a state of affairs where documents and IDs can never prove sound identification and where citizenship of the ordinary resident…
