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• GST Reforms and Subaltern Voices | Leivon Victor Lamkang, Karamala Areesh Kumar

  11 October 2025

  The recent announcement of GST reforms by the finance minister, which was covered widely across multiple media outlets, has sparked different debates across the country. Much of this discussions and debate focus on what the informal sector perceives these changes to be, directly linking the potential benefits or disadvantages to be obtained by the subalterns. The article draws its conceptual framework from the subaltern propagated early on by Antonio Gramsci. He identifies this community (…)

• Cuttack Riot: A Wake-Up Call for the People of Odisha and India | Bhabani Shankar Nayak

  11 October 2025

  Communal harmony and brotherhood between Hindus, Muslims, and other religious communities define the synchronised secular culture of Cuttack as a city in Odisha. From Dargah Bazar and Pir Hat to Idgah Maidan, people have been witnesses to the making of the history of independent Odisha and India. People from all religious walks of life participated in shaping the secular culture during and before the anti-colonial struggles in the city. These places define secularism and communal harmony in (…)

• A quick take on Narendra Modi

  11 October 2025, by Suresh Khairnar

  On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Narendra Modi

• Odissa’s City of Cuttack stands for ’bhaichara’ tradition | Radhakanta Barik

  11 October 2025, by Radhakanta Barik

  Social harmony was woven into the social fabric of the city of Cuttack. The best example is Kadam Rasul where twenty Brahmin families live with the majority of Muslims and they share their marriage and birth day functions of their children. They have built a Masjid side by side of the Durga temple located in the same spot. This city space shows the integration of these two social groups into a complex whole of the city. This is where the city is popularly known in a social proverb given (…)

• T.J.S. George: The Editor Who Knew That Knowledge Was a Journalist

  11 October 2025

  There are men who write history,and there are those who quietly correct it. T.J.S. George belonged to the second kind

• Political Opinion: State And Non-State Actors |

  11 October 2025, by Sunita Samal

  The problem is whether political opinion should be defined at all. It is vital to keep in mind what lies behind the debate about the value of definition. It is settled that the protection based on political opinion is not limited to people who are members of a political party or who are engaged in electoral politics or who embraces in some way a particular political ideology. It is vital to keep in mind what lies behind the debate about the value of definition. Public opinion is what people (…)

• A Soldier

  11 October 2025, by Sagari Chhabra

  A young soldier walked,
  trudging up a hill;
  his heart filled with joy
  at the sight of a light
  emanating from his family

• Life and Thoughts of Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia | Raushan Kumar Sharma

  11 October 2025

  Early Life and Education
  Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia can be described as a Gandhian socialist and a visionary who worked for the upliftment of the poor and downtrodden of the country. Born in a Marwari Vaishya community to Heera Lal and Kumari Chanda on March 23, 1910, Lohia received his early education in his village and later matriculated in 1925 under the Bombay Board. Thereafter, he pursued higher education at Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar College in Kolkata, where he completed his B.A. degree. (…)

• Virtual Minister or Bureaucrat? Imagining India

  11 October 2025, by Jos Chathukulam

  Abstract Artificial Intelligence (AI) is advancing with great speed, scope and scale in the domain of governance. The concept of AI-assisted hybrid governance becomes significant in Public Administration as it avoids over-bureaucratisation and over-automation in the process of decision-making. In this article, the authors make an attempt to deliberate upon a topic

• Perils of becoming a post-literate society | Ash Narain Roy

  11 October 2025, by Ash Narain Roy