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• What Does Lowest Growth of Chhattisgarh

  15 February, by Arup Maharatna

  Abstract: The paper examines differentials in growth of population between scheduled tribes (ST) and scheduled castes (SC) in two adjacent states, namely Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh (MP) in central India by utilizing published official information/data. Rate of growth of population has been lowest in Chhattisgarh in this entire region. This is found to be proximately due to a higher rate at which the STs of Chhattisgarh are both dying, fleeing homeland to other places for survival, and (…)

• National Awards and the Feudal Mindset A Constitutional and Democratic Critique | Jos Chathukulam

  15 February, by Jos Chathukulam

  Abstract
  National awards such as the Bharat Ratna, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan,

• Modi has an excess of governance skills to make India a Hindu Rashtra | Faraz Ahmad

  15 February, by Faraz Ahmad

  February 21, 2026
  The other day I came across a video of Kapil Sibal, noted legal counsel to most dissenters against this Government, pronouncing the BJP government at the Centre and in so many states, as lacking the aptitude to govern and administer.
  I beg to disagree with Sibal. Be it Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his second in command Amit Shah or the numerous chief ministers in the BJP ruled states, led by Uttar Pradesh (UP) chief minister Aja Bisht, all have a clear vision and (…)

• Golem Stole the Naravane Manuscript | Papri Sen Sri Raman

  15 February, by Papri Sen Sri Raman

  LIKE MOST OTHERS in India, I became infatuated with Dan Brown books when reading the second book of the Robert Langdon series, The Da Vinci Code, which had this gripping account of medieval freemasonry. Before reading Brown, I had thought of Freemasons as just another cult. After The Da Vinci Code, I looked it up.
  Book 6 of the Langdon series is strategically called The Secret of Secrets. This one is labeled a

• Four Decades of Deeply Committed, Continuing Efforts for Construction Workers and Unorganized Sector Workers | Bharat Dogra

  15 February, by Bharat Dogra

  Despite the persistence of many-sided injustices and problems in unequal societies, democracy opens up several windows of opportunities which can be used by committed social activists, working with the help of respected mentors, to achieve significant rights for workers. This brings new hope to workers and the possibilities of replicating such efforts lead to more initiatives and greater hope. This in turn strengthens democracy and the various provisions of social justice in India

• Something is rotten in Aadhaar Based Digital Kingdom: India

  15 February, by Gopal Krishna

  Introduction
  If aadhaar based digital injustice, slavery and totalitarianism is not wrong, nothing is wrong.
  The question:Are we all going to continue to give our consent to voluntary servitude to the beneficial owners of the automatic identification and biometric profiling machines, or will we confront the naturalisation of the politics of obedience? raises the oldest political questions about knowledge, authority, power and human dignity. In his book The Politics Of Obedience: The (…)

• USA-India Trade Deal threatens livelihoods of Small Farmers | Soma Marla

  15 February, by Soma S. Marla

  On second of February US President Donald Trump announced that US and India have reached a trade deal under which India will stop buying oil from Russia and tariffs on Indian exports will be slashed from 50 to 18 percentage points, while Indian tariffs (customs duty) will come down to zero percent on all American goods. Our Commerce minister Piyush Goyal waited till evening on that day to applaud the announcement though the its terms were not disclosed fully and kept in secrecy. (…)

• A Telling Winter in Delhi: Banishing Dogs, Ignoring Air Pollution | Preeti Chauhan

  15 February, by Preeti Chauhan

  As the winter set in Delhi so did the smog, like every year for past many years though this year seems to be the longest and worst in terms of the AQI. The smog is more stubborn, the haze too visible and black to be ignored, it now can even be seen and felt indoors. Photos clicked by our phones capture the haze-depicting the pervasiveness of air pollution in Delhi. The Govt. response seem far too little and late to deal with Delhi

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  Obituary: Remembering Professor Andre Beteille | Adfer Rashid Shah

  15 February

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• Fear-Free Learning | Sunit Singh

  15 February

  When I entered a classroom of Vidyavanam (a primary school in Andhra Pradesh), I noticed four tables arranged in the room. Students from different grades were sitting together, with no strict seating arrangement, engaging in various activities. Some were playing, others were working on some tasks. There was no designated place for the teacher to sit. At one of the four tables, the teacher was guiding a few students to do an activity. Suddenly, one student, who was playing when the teacher (…)