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  Attack on Director of Education and ruling party supporters in Uttrakhand | Statement by Uttarakhand Humanity Forum

  1 March

  [Feb 25, 2026]
  Press note
  Beating up of the Director of Education, the ruling party’s irritation.
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  Uttarakhand Humanity Forum strongly condemns the fatal attack on the Director of Primary Education and described the incident as the result of the brutality of the ruling party supporters. The forum has demanded strict action against the attackers.
  In a press note, the platform said that going to the government office with the crowd and damaging government property by fighting (…)

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  Music: March of the Jobless Corps

  1 March

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  March of the Jobless Corps

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  Documentary: For the People Despite the People: The Ataturk Revolution

  1 March

• India’s AI Deficit The World’s Largest Engineering Pipeline Produces Workers, Not Innovators | Varna Sri Raman

  15 February, by Varna Sri Raman

  Why the US invested 94 times more in AI than India last year, why 62% of India’s top engineering talent emigrates, why every semiconductor fab proposal keeps collapsing, and what this means for an IT sector already shedding tens of thousands of jobs to the very technology India cannot build.
  IN DECEMBER 2025, India’s IT Minister proudly tweeted that India had

• SIR in West Bengal: A Tool of Mass Exclusion | Arup Kumar Sen

  15 February, by Arup Kumar Sen

  Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls has become a contested terrain in West Bengal on the eve of the assembly elections in 2026. Already the names of a large of voters in the State have been deleted in the electoral rolls through this exercise. To put it in the words of The Hindu (February 9, 2026):

• Disaster Management funding: 16th Finance Commission report | G.V.Venugopala Sarma

  15 February, by G.V.Venugopala Sarma

  Many lofty principles are pronounced on how disaster risk management is holistic, not confined to response alone, has several activities before, during and after a disaster strikes and so on. The report of the 16th Finance Commission with reference to disaster management, recommends allocations to the tune of Rs 2.83 lakh crore for this sector for the period between 2026-27 and 2030-31. The following points are worth noting:
  (i) It recommends enhancement of funds at the State level from Rs (…)

• 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