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• "Civil Celebrities": Redefining Public Service in the Social Media Era | Disha

  15 February 2025, by Disha

  Abstract
  The emergence of "civil celebrities" has transformed how civil servants interact with the public in India. Traditionally known for their quiet dedication to governance, these officials are now becoming prominent figures on social media, sharing glimpses of both their professional achievements and personal milestones. This shift, driven by platforms like X (Twitter), Instagram, Facebook and YouTube, has blurred the line between public service and personal branding. While this (…)

• India’s First Metadata case: USAID’s role in India

  15 February 2025, by Gopal Krishna

  The

• Unravelling of Dystopian Reality In Trumpian World | Vijay Kumar

  15 February 2025, by Vijay Kumar

  As expected, Donald Trump, after his inauguration of second term, is unleashing the ferocious wave of unilateralism through flurry of orders. In fact, the Trump has declared a full-frontal war on rule-based multilateral world order.
  The announcement that he would claim Greenland from Denmark and Panama Canal from Panama, withdrawal from the resolution of Paris climate summit and World Health Organization (WHO) and the imposition of sanction on International Criminal Court (ICC) appear (…)

• End of love affair with the left? | Ash Narain Roy

  15 February 2025, by Ash Narain Roy

  Are 21st century ideologues suffering from a kind of ecotopia and a paralysis of imagination? We seem to be moving towards the slow decay of critical thinking. We don

• Life World of Ismat Chughtai: Some Snapshots | Arup Kumar Sen

  15 February 2025, by Arup Kumar Sen

  Ismat Chughtai was a rebel woman writer in the world of Urdu fiction. In his Foreword to Ismat

• Birth of a revolutionary movement in Yugoslavia (1969) | Fredy Perlman

  15 February 2025

  1969 pamphlet by Fredy Perlman on the beginnings of the 1968 revolutionary movement in Yugoslavia.
  "Heretics are always more dangerous than enemies," concluded a Yugoslav philosopher after analyzing the repression of Marxist intellectuals by the Marxist regime of Poland. (S. Stojanovic, in Student, Belgrade, April 9, 1968, p. 7.)
  In Yugoslavia, where "workers’ self-management" has become the official ideology, a new struggle for popular control has exposed the gap between the official (…)

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  CPI statement on mass killings in Chhattisgarh

  15 February 2025

  Communist Party of India
  New Delhi,
  February 11, 2025
  Press Release
  CPI on Mass Killings in Chhattisgarh
  The National Secretariat of the Communist Party of India issued today (February 11, 2025) the following statement:
  The recent encounter killings in Chhattisgarh, purportedly in the name of combating Maoist extremists, have raised serious concerns. Though the CPI has stark ideological differences with the Maoist extremists, the government’s approach of mass killings leaves no (…)

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  PUCL Statement on the Stampede at Maha Kumbh Mela on 29th January 2025

  15 February 2025

  People’s Union for Civil Liberties
  12th February, 2025
  PUCL demands that the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) chaired by the PM, make public their assessment of causes of stampede and suggestion of measures to be taken to ensure similar disaster doesn

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  Delhi Model: When good governance and trickle-up economics merged | M.R. Narayan Swamy

  15 February 2025, by M R Narayan Swamy

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  Review of Sohal’s The Muslim Secular | Raheel Bashir & Aamir Jamal Khan

  15 February 2025

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  The Muslim Secular: Parity and the Politics of India