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• Making Sense of Quit India in the Current Context | Gouri Sankar Nag & Ajay Majumder

  9 August 2025

  Standing in 2025, i.e. 79 odd years since independence, it seems both perturbing and unsettling to introspect and reflect on where we find ourselves today. What kind of country we envisioned during the stormy freedom struggle, and the present depressive scenario where we have landed. The binary is too stark and disconcerting to acknowledge that it is nowhere near the noble idea of swaraj that Mahatma Gandhi contemplated or the idea of transformation envisaged by the martyrs like Ram Prasad (…)

• Quit India Movement in Lohia

  9 August 2025, by Prem Singh

  The Quit India Movement followed Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia even in the years after independence. After playing an underground role in the Quit India Movement for 21 months, Lohia was arrested in Bombay on 10 May 1944. He was imprisoned first in Lahore Fort and then in Agra. After being imprisoned for two years, Lohia was released in June 1946. Meanwhile, his father passes away, but Lohia did not accept coming out of jail on parole to perform his last-rites.
  Lohia writes on the 25th anniversary (…)

• Modi Era: India of Nightmares | L K Sharma

  9 August 2025, by L K Sharma

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  The fusion of religion and politics has adversely affected both spheres. A Leader won power in 2014 to protect Hinduism and Hindus. Ironically, Hindus lost self-confidence because they were constantly bombarded by politicians with the warning that they are endangered. The Polarisation Project which split society on religious lines also divided Hindus between the Hindutva warriors and liberal Hindus. The differences among the Hindus based on (…)

• Vanishing of Morality From India

  9 August 2025, by Vijay Kumar

  India

• Insecurity Dilemma Confronting the Gulf Region | Manoj Kumar Mishra

  9 August 2025

  The Gulf states are transitioning to post-oil economies diversifying their oil wealth to manufacturing, tourism and technology sectors with their increasing nascent interest in investing in Artificial Intelligence (AI). It is quite natural that these states seek a stable and peaceful Middle East so that they can attract investors and tourists. However, these states with none of their own mistakes have been wading through instabilities and fallouts of wars as Israel is seeking to redraw the (…)

• Audit Findings Confirm Construction Workers of Delhi Were Deprived of Welfare Provisions Mandated by Law for Years | Bharat Dogra

  9 August 2025, by Bharat Dogra

  In recent years in the course of several interviews I conducted in the slums, resettlement colonies and labor chowks (places where daily wage workers gather every morning to seek employment) of Delhi, I was distressed from hearing increasing complaints that the welfare benefits secured after campaigning for several years for helpful laws were being denied on a large scale to construction workers. While several construction workers, including women, never received these benefits, what was (…)

• Right Time To Build A New World Order | Soma Marla

  9 August 2025, by Soma S. Marla

  In wake of United States

• What is the point of celebrating 14th August Partition Day | Suresh Khairnar

  9 August 2025, by Suresh Khairnar

  On the coming 15th of August, even after 78 years of our independence, 28% of the population has to go from one place to another for employment to earn their livelihood. However, the current Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi repeatedly said in his election campaign that if I make you the Prime Minister, I will give employment to two crore unemployed people every year.
  This means that in the eleven years of his becoming the Prime Minister, 22 crore unemployed people should have been given (…)

• Delhi

  9 August 2025

  August 4, 2025
  Indian refiners are at high risk due to US penalty threats and the EU’s new sanctions on exports made from Russian crude.
  The US has threatened to impose an unspecified penalty in addition to 25 percent punitive tariffs [1] on India for its imports of Russian oil. To avoid these sanctions without harming India

• Malegaon Blast Judgement: Crime and (No) Punishment | Ram Puniyani

  9 August 2025, by Ram Puniyani

  The long-awaited verdict on the Malegaon blast of 2008 was delivered by a special court in Mumbai. The judgement has acquitted all seven accused in the Malegaon blasts case, which came as a blow to the victims and celebrations to the Hindutva camp. Many were anticipating this type of verdict and it was no surprise to them as during the period of last 17 years the investigating agencies did change the track, particularly after 2014. The blast was carried by a group which used a motorcycle. (…)