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• Indira Gandhi’s early warning on RSS | Praveen Davar

  8 November 2025

  If the RSS had not committed the blunder of having a high-profile nationwide celebration of the completion of its 100 years, millions of Indians wouldn’t have known its true character and history. With access to several digital platforms and now AI, Gen Z knows how to uncover the untruth and discover the reality that cannot remain hidden for long, no matter how deep the propaganda aimed at misleading innocent people.
  Many facts about the RSS have come to light in the recent past in (…)

• Exhibitionist Religiosity and its Discontents | Manish Thakur, Nabanipa Bhattacharjee

  8 November 2025, by Nabanipa Bhattacharjee

  Contrary to what we may think, one

• Corruption in India: Political Apathy and Systemic Decay | S N Tripathy

  8 November 2025, by S N Tripathy

  Backdrop:
  Corruption in India remains a deeply entrenched and multidimensional problem that continues to undermine democratic governance, economic efficiency, and social justice. Defined broadly as the misuse of public power for private gain, corruption manifests in administrative inefficiency, political patronage, and a culture of impunity that spans from local bureaucracies to the highest levels of power. Despite a long-standing legal and institutional framework, including the Prevention (…)

• Reading the Deportation of Francesca Orsini | Arup Kumar Sen

  8 November 2025, by Arup Kumar Sen

  Francesca Orsini, a renowned scholar of Hindi and South Asian literature and professor emerita at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, was deported from Delhi airport on October 20, 2025, for her alleged violation of visa conditions. The PTI reported that a source in the Ministry of Home Affairs stated that Orsini has been on a

• System rigging & electoral manipulation for right-wing power in India | Radhakanta Barik

  8 November 2025, by Radhakanta Barik

  Trump speaking in the press conference with Modi told

• Mamdani, Socialism and Eugene Debs | M.R. Narayan Swamy

  8 November 2025, by M R Narayan Swamy

  Only a capitalist haven like the United States can quibble over what kind of a socialist you are.
  No wonder Zohran Mamdani is suddenly finding critics even among known admirers after the democratic socialist quoted the late dyed-in-the-wool socialist Eugene V. Debs after winning the high-octane New York mayoral election.
  Debs (1855-1926), a socialist, trade unionist and activist, was one of the founders of the Industrial Workers of the World and a five-time candidate of the Socialist (…)

• History Behind Mamdani

  8 November 2025

  As the dust of the recently concluded mayoral election settles in New York

• 2025 Bihar Assembly Election and Changing Contours of Social Justice Politics | Badre Alam Khan

  8 November 2025, by Badre Alam Khan

• Beyond Schumpeter: Institutional Foundations, Creative Destruction, and India

  8 November 2025, by A. M. Jose

  Abstract
  The 2025 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, awarded to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion, and Peter Howitt, highlights the institutional, cultural, and competitive foundations of innovation-driven economic growth. By extending Joseph Schumpeter

• Trump

  8 November 2025, by Soma S. Marla

  With the shutdown entering its sixth week, and with no visible end in sight, science is seriously disrupted in USA. The government shutdown will continue until Congress can pass a bill reopening it. U.S. science always suffers during government shutdowns. Funding lapses send government scientists home with no pay. Many experiments in labs are halted as Federal agencies suspend ongoing research, new grant proposals, review panels on hold, and stop collecting and analysing public (…)