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• Congress must lead INDIA and its ouster from the bloc would prove to be disastrous for secular and liberal politics | Arun Srivastava

  18 January 2025

  Jan 14, 2025
  A chorus for giving an unwept burial to the INDIA bloc, which till nine months back was perceived as the emancipator to the poor and oppressed and a challenger to the rightist ideology and a secular claimant to power, is reverberating the political circle. It is quite astonishing to see that the pitch of the chorus is not being raised by the saffron ecosystem. Instead leaders of the INDIA bloc, Arvind Kejriwal, Akhilesh Yadav, Mamata Banerjee, Omar Abdullah, Tejashvi Yadav (…)

• Confronting India

  18 January 2025

  January 13, 2025
  Preventing silicosis demands integrating technological, public health and sustainable livelihood solutions.
  Sitting on his haunches in the midst of a massive pile of red sandstone blocks, 45-year-old Hemraj Kishore

• Tata Group hounds a whistleblower | Upal Chakraborty

  18 January 2025, by Upal Chakraborty

  An intriguing criminal case (Case No. CRR 2540 of 2024) has come up in Calcutta High Court and is expected to unravel the unholy nexus between corporates, criminals, Govt officials and Police. Notices have been issued to the Govt of West Bengal, a Tata Group company, the insurance regulator IRDAI, the Chaudhary Charan Singh University (erstwhile Meerut University) and an individual by the name of Mr. Tarun Samant.
  The original FIR was registered in the year 2020 in the Park Street Police (…)

• Escalation of Indian Surveillance in the Indo-Bangladesh Border | Arup Kumar Sen

  18 January 2025, by Arup Kumar Sen

  The recent change in the political regime in Bangladesh has escalated Indo-Bangladesh border surveillance in West Bengal. Reports carried in The Indian Express bear testimony to it:

• Disability, A Lived Experience | Allen David Simon

  18 January 2025

  Excluded, illtreated and left behind
  Although disability rights movement has not registered a presence in India, it has undoubtably made significant progress in the lives of persons with disability, pushing a more disabled-friendly policy framework, with accessible to public spaces, rehabilitation programmes, disability support services

• Manmohan Singh

  18 January 2025, by Arun Kumar

  A shorter version of this article appeared in The Wire on January 5, 2025. Titled,

• Battle of ideas, not battle of leaflets | Ash Narain Roy

  18 January 2025, by Ash Narain Roy

  US President-elect Donald Trump

• Free Speech: A Matter of Debate | Suranjita Ray

  18 January 2025, by Suranjita Ray

  The recent news headlines on the display of the book

• Navigating the Irony of Exceptionalism and Status Dilemma in the India-US-China Strategic Triangle | Musssaib Rasool Mir, Santosh Kumar

  18 January 2025

  Abstract
  A complex interaction of exceptionalism and status dilemma

• A Christmas Carol For Our Times / Where Lies Hope | Sagari Chhabra

  18 January 2025, by Sagari Chhabra

  A Christmas Carol For Our Times
  Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer
  had a shiny nose,
  and in the dark
  every one swore it glowed!
  All the children made fun of Rudolph
  and his nose,
  so the story goes;
  never included him in their games,
  which is an utter shame.
  One day, Santa came
  and asked Rudolph
  if he would drive his very own sleigh.
  and the children sang,
  Rudolph the reindeer
  it