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• Changing Nomenclature of Centrally Sponsored Schemes in India: Implications for Beneficiary Perception and Policy Effectiveness | Jos Chathukulam

  22 May, by Jos Chathukulam

  Abstract
  The evolution of Centrally Sponsored Schemes (CSS) in India reflects continuous efforts by the

• The Invisible Workforce That Keeps India’s Cities Running | Krishnan Agarwal

  22 May

  Every election season, when trains fill with Bengali workers heading home to vote, the cities like Delhi, Gurgaon, Bengaluru, Kochi, Mumbai and Pune they leave behind briefly halt their fast-paced life-style. All across Kerala, the work in gardens, orchards, orchid farms and cocoanut farms also come to a brief halt. The workers here are from rural Bengal, just like those in the big cities. This happens when elections happen in the north-eastern States, Bihar and Odisha too, and States like (…)

• Thesis and Antithesis of Cooperatives in Maharashtra: A Dialectical Perspective | Md Sahidul Islam and Rahul Thombare

  22 May

  Introduction
  The state of Maharashtra continues to witness the persistent agrarian distress and challenges in India. One of the grave agrarian crises is the farmers’ suicides. The state accounts for approximately 38% of all farm-sector suicides, the largest share of farmer suicide, in India. (Mohan, 2025). Historically, the state has witnessed persistent farmer suicides between 2015 and 2024; over 37,000 farmer suicides happened in Maharashtra, which exceeds over 3500 per year. This (…)

• Journey from Emergency to Digital Emergency Architecture, a monstrous legacy of Pranab Mukherjee: India

  22 May, by Gopal Krishna

  In your files village weather is rosy)
  But this data is fake, this claim is bookish
  — Adam Gondvi
  Had Adam Gondvi (1947-2011) been alive, he would say,

• Palestine on BRICS agenda | Jawed Naqvi

  22 May, by Jawed Naqvi

  AT the heart of the war on Iran is the issue of Palestine. That the BRICS foreign ministers

• Unseating Authoritarian Regime: Lessons from Hungary | Amal Mandal

  22 May

  An overwhelming 70% of seats for the two-year-old Tisza party led by Peter Magyar in the Hungarian parliamentary election 2026 is both momentous and instructive. Besides the drubbing of the 16-year-long entrenched authoritarian Orb

• Public Education in Soviet Russia | Anatoly Lunacharsky (1919)

  22 May

  ‘Public Education in Soviet Russia’ by Anatoly Lunacharsky from Communist International. Vol. 1 Nos. 2, 4, & 6. 1919.
  Aiming at the systematization of every and all state functions, the Soviet has fundamentally changed the competence and character of the government organ that under the old regime bore the name of Ministry of Public Education.
  1) This ministry formerly confined its activity chiefly to schools. A whole series of highly important cultural institutions were beyond its (…)

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  Review of Jayaramu’s Decoding Indian Politics | Girija K S

  22 May

  [fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
  Decoding Indian Politics by P S Jayaramu
  Writers Choice Publications Pvt Ltd., New Delhi.
  ISBN NO 978-93-49389-02-1
  No of pages: 260
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  This book is a compilation of articles written by Prof. P S Jayaramu, formerly Professor of Political science in Bangalore University. An ardent writer and a scholar of Political science and International relations, Professor Jayaramu has produced many students and has guided scholars, has been (…)

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  Reading Arundhati Roy Against My Will | Disha

  22 May, by Disha

  For most of my life I have read political writing with a sense of duty rather than desire. I read to stay informed, not to feel changed. The books I encountered often seemed to assume a reader who could absorb weight without needing warmth, and I finished them more knowledgeable, but no more connected to the world they described.
  When I picked up the memoir Mother Mary Comes To Me, I expected the same. I did not expect the book to reach the private interior of my reluctance or alter the (…)

• Historiographical singularity and democratic erosion in India | Zeeshan Ashraf

  22 May

  To the vast majority, who thought their past to be multicultural, tragic, and complex, the idea of glorification of the past along with historiographical singularity will always feel stimulating. What it attempts to demonstrate is the glorious achievements of the past and how drastically the deterioration of that position has taken place. This artistic formula has been adopted by almost all authoritarian, fascist, and democratically strained nations. The political leader, in order to appeal (…)