2025

[fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEW[/blanc][/fond noir]
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Development Strategies and Governance in India:
Predicaments and Challenges
by Bala Ramulu Chinnala
Routledge
2025
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Reviewed by Srinivasulu Karli
Post-independent India

Biographer Vikram Sampath may be convinced that the ideologies of Mahatma Gandhi and Veer Savarkar remain the perfectly irreconcilable polar opposites that would never meet. But prolific writer and veteran academic Makarand R. Paranjape disagrees. The feud between the two men of history, he is equally confident, was actually a family quarrel as they were both fellow freedom fighters and professedly fellow Hindus.
And so, the unending antagonism between Gandhi and Savarkar needs a new (…)

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The Bihar Assembly Elections raised a plethora of debate throughout the country even before the proclamation of election was announced by the Election Commission of India. An attempt is made here to discuss the various dimensions of the polls. No specific effort is made at number crunching like the number of seats contested by the Parties/ coalitions, the percentage of votes they polled, caste-wise breakup etc. I must add that my analysis is not based on any field visit, as I am sitting far (…)

Until recent times JNU was known for its cosmopolitan outlook and as a site for healthy debates. While revisiting its history, one national daily observed:

The Union Ministry of Culture hosted a conference in New Delhi from September 11 to 13, 2025. Bringing together archaeologists, scientists, and experts from diverse fields to present findings on the undeciphered Harappan script, a mystery since its discovery in the 1920s. The search for decoding the Harappan script is not just an academic pursuit but one heavily shaped by political and cultural narratives in India. Various groups view the Harappan script as a means to counter the Aryan (…)

India-US relations is facing its worst crisis in recent times. The terms of global trade are being re-written in an unprecedented manner. The Liberation Day

Abstract
The 1,643-km Indo-Myanmar border is a contested terrain where India