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• Can a driver run Indian taxi cooperative outplay Uber, Ola ride-hailing servcies | Satyendra Pandey, Pratik Modi

  13 September 2025

  August 12, 2025
  Backed by cooperatives, Bharat taxi aims to be a ride-hailing platform where drivers are not just service providers but also co-owners of the business.
  A new taxi service [1], backed by eight cooperatives, is set to change the way Indians book their rides.
  The service, registered as the Multi-State Sahakari Taxi Cooperative Ltd, is backed by the National Cooperative Development Corporation as well as seven other leading Indian cooperative institutions: Amul, NDDB, (…)

• On the need to address the Israeli attacks on the UN system | S Faizi

  13 September 2025, by S Faizi

  My letter to the UN on the need to act on the Israeli attacks on the UN system, using the relevant Rules of the UN GA Rules of Procedure, to circumvent the UN SC veto.
  Faizi
  Forwarded message ---------
  From: Faizi S <s.faizi111[at]gmail.com>
  Date: Sat, Sep 13, 2025 at 11:31?AM
  Subject: On the need to address the Israeli attacks on the UN system
  To: opga[at]un.org
  Cc: sg[at]un.org, secretariat[at]g77.org
  President
  United Nations General Assembly
  New York
  Copy: (…)

• Who will bell the Israeli cat? | Faraz Ahmad

  13 September 2025, by Faraz Ahmad

  The Zionist state of Israel bombed on September 9 Doha the capital of the Gulf island state of Qatar, a most trusted and dependable ally of the United States of America (USA) which also hosts a US air base at Ai Udeid to monitor and prevent any misadventure against US

• RSS at 100:

  13 September 2025, by Ram Puniyani

  Ram Puniyani
  RSS which was formed in 1925 is completing its hundred years on 2nd October 2025. Its politics has been Hindutva and it aims at Hindu Nation. Its pledge, an oath taken by its volunteers, commits them to remain loyal to Hindu nation. It set up shakhas at a rapid pace, shakha (branch) is the basic unit of RSS. In this shakha earlier young boys, and now people of all ages play Indian games like Kaddadi, Kho-Kho etc. They are given ideological training, which is called shakha (…)

• The learning gaps among the school children: What is happening in our schools and homes? | Rajeshwar Mishra

  13 September 2025

  The foreground - concerning calls!
  One may often come across concerning voices from among the teachers, students and parents about

• The Moran angst

  13 September 2025

  The Assamese media is flooded with news of

• Interrogating the Notion of

  13 September 2025, by Arup Kumar Sen

  The recent verdict of a division bench of the Delhi High Court on September 2, 2025, rejecting the bail pleas of human rights activist Umar Khalid and others in the 2020 Delhi riots case, has put the notion of

• Shireen | Sagari Chhabra

  13 September 2025, by Sagari Chhabra

  While I sat by the shores of the sea
  a delicious feeling overcame me;
  a shoal of fish began nibbling my toes
  imagining they were worms undertow.
  I sat still without a murmur
  savouring the swell of waves,
  the fish and the sea,
  in harmony with all of god

• In the Margins of Word: Categorizing Speech and the Crisis of Democratic Discourse in India? | Ayush Mazumdar

  13 September 2025

  Though the philosophical lineage of Socrates is often traced through his pupil Plato, I wonder whether the

• Rightwing-Rightwing Bhai Bhai : Who fears Javed Akhtar ? |

  13 September 2025, by Subhash Gatade

  A ’unity of purpose’ has been witnessed between Hindu and Muslim supremacists, who consider themselves the sole spokespersons of ’their community’.
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  "The devout man considers me an infidel, and the infidel thinks, (I’m) Muslim /
  the non-believer thinks I’m saint, and the saint considers me non-believer/
  After hearing both sides, I am amazed/
  I’m that subject which is difficult to understand/
  If someone is inclined to understand, then I am easy."
  — (…)