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• 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

• What India Gains (and loses) by Courting the Taliban | Girish Linganna

  11 October 2025

  by Girish Linganna
  (India Press Agency - October 10, 2025) In a move that would have seemed unthinkable just a few years ago, Taliban Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi arrived in New Delhi on October 9 for an eight-day official visit that marks a watershed moment in India’s foreign policy. His meetings with External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar, followed by visits to Islamic seminaries in Agra and Deoband, represent India’s most significant engagement yet with the Taliban regime. New (…)

• The rise of the mega-influencer | Phillip Dolitsky and Luke Moon

  11 October 2025

  October 2, 2025
  Mega-influencers shape the public imagination. And in a world where narratives matter more than facts, the imagination is where wars are won and lost.
  We are living in the late stages of an epistemological crisis. In our modern, AI-powered era, the very idea of truth

• The artificial political divide: How France

  11 October 2025

  October 6, 2025
  France

• Netanyahu shrinks amid Trump

  11 October 2025, by M R Narayan Swamy

  US President Donald Trump may be publicly telling Benjamin Netanyahu that the Gaza peace plan is his (Netanyahu

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  CPM Statement on the Attack on Chief Justice of India BR Gavai (Oct 6, 2025)

  11 October 2025

  CPI (M)
  October 6, 2025
  The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement:
  Condemn the Attack on CJI BR Gavai
  The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) strongly condemns the act of throwing a shoe at the Chief Justice of India, B.R. Gavai. It demands that immediate action be taken against the concerned advocate, who is registered with the Supreme Court Bar Association and has been apprehended.
  It is highly shocking and (…)

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  The speech by Vice Chancellor of Delhi University at odds with constitutional promise of free speech

  11 October 2025

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  AIKS Team Visits Punjab, Extends Relief to Punjab Flood Affected People

  11 October 2025

  8 October 2025
  A delegation of the All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) today visited the flood-hit regions of Tarn Taran, Amritsar and Gurdaspur in Punjab to provide relief to the people affected. The team noted that the floods in Punjab have been unprecedented and in the affected regions they have meant total loss of standing crop, with reports of over 5 lakh acres of agricultural land being submerged.
  People accused the AAP state government in Punjab and the Narendra Modi-led BJP-NDA (…)