2025

* Ladakh: Sonam Wangchuk is being targeted for raising people

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) alone has the material resources and paraphernalia to manipulate, if need be the course of elections in India.
After the BJP faced a shock defeat in the 2004 general elections leading upto the Prime Ministership going to Dr Manmohan Singh, instead of L.K. Advani as he had presumed, even though the difference of seats won by the Congress which emerged as the single largest party in the 15th Lok Sabha and the outgoing ruling party the BJP was very narrow

A movement has been going on in Ladakh to protect its fragile ecosystem and its cultural identity by raising a demand for inclusion of Ladakh in the VI Schedule of the Indian Constitution since the last two years. The Bhartiya Janata Party had in its election manifesto for 2019 Lok Sabha elections included this as the third item for Ladakh region. The BJP also made the same promise in Autonomous Hill Development Council elections in 2020. But now it has gone back on the promise. Sonam (…)

Very recently, the market regulator, SEBI,

September 15, 2025
A tragedy that called for healing was met with rhetoric instead of statesmanship
Two years ago, we had travelled as a medical team of Indian Doctors for Peace and Development (IDPD) to Manipur to assess the health status of the people. We visited Imphal, where the Meitei population is predominant, and Kangpokpi, largely inhabited by Kukis. What we saw was heart breaking. Families displaced from their homes were crowded into refugee camps without any privacy. Children (…)

Mohan Bhagwat has been in the news for the last few months. First, he vaguely hinted that people should retire at the age of 75 years. This was taken as a hint for Modi to relinquish power when he turns 75 this September. Then in his three lectures in Vigyan Bhavan he clarified that he did not mean so. His own 75th birthday was celebrated on 12 September 2025. The remarkable thing of the event was the presence of Sri Sri Ravishankar (SSR), supposed to be the spiritual Guru and major person (…)

Farmer suicides in Telangana are not just statistics

Abstract
This article seeks to review how and to what extent the claim by DESH, a well-known Bengali literary magazine in India published by ANANDA, on the eve of its first appearance, to be the mouthpiece of oppressed poor and downtrodden would be justified in the backdrop of colonial historiography and culture.
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Introduction
In the preface to Desh Subarna Jayanti Prabhandha Sankalon (Golden Jubilee Collection of Essays, Desh(Ananda Publication, 1983),Sagarmaya Ghosh, the (…)

Introduction:
The ongoing debate surrounding the removal and editing of references to the partition of India in history textbooks is an indicator of a strategic initiative to reshape historical narratives in line with contemporary political agendas, particularly targeting students and youth. A close look at the section of the content of "Partition Horror" in the NCERT textbook reveals it to be little more than a collection of fabrications, inaccuracies and a blatant distortion of (…)

Music is food for the soul. I, like all music enthusiasts and connoisseurs, have always had a song to justify my moods and situations. But it is seldom that a song, and particularly its lyrics, leaves a lasting impact on you. One such song was and is