2026

* SIR in West Bengal | Arup Kumar Sen
* Disaster Management funding: 16th Finance Commission report |G.V.Venugopala Sarma
* Savarkar

Why the US invested 94 times more in AI than India last year, why 62% of India’s top engineering talent emigrates, why every semiconductor fab proposal keeps collapsing, and what this means for an IT sector already shedding tens of thousands of jobs to the very technology India cannot build.
IN DECEMBER 2025, India’s IT Minister proudly tweeted that India had

Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls has become a contested terrain in West Bengal on the eve of the assembly elections in 2026. Already the names of a large of voters in the State have been deleted in the electoral rolls through this exercise. To put it in the words of The Hindu (February 9, 2026):

Many lofty principles are pronounced on how disaster risk management is holistic, not confined to response alone, has several activities before, during and after a disaster strikes and so on. The report of the 16th Finance Commission with reference to disaster management, recommends allocations to the tune of Rs 2.83 lakh crore for this sector for the period between 2026-27 and 2030-31. The following points are worth noting:
(i) It recommends enhancement of funds at the State level from Rs (…)

Abstract: The paper examines differentials in growth of population between scheduled tribes (ST) and scheduled castes (SC) in two adjacent states, namely Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh (MP) in central India by utilizing published official information/data. Rate of growth of population has been lowest in Chhattisgarh in this entire region. This is found to be proximately due to a higher rate at which the STs of Chhattisgarh are both dying, fleeing homeland to other places for survival, and (…)

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National awards such as the Bharat Ratna, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan,

February 21, 2026
The other day I came across a video of Kapil Sibal, noted legal counsel to most dissenters against this Government, pronouncing the BJP government at the Centre and in so many states, as lacking the aptitude to govern and administer.
I beg to disagree with Sibal. Be it Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his second in command Amit Shah or the numerous chief ministers in the BJP ruled states, led by Uttar Pradesh (UP) chief minister Aja Bisht, all have a clear vision and (…)

LIKE MOST OTHERS in India, I became infatuated with Dan Brown books when reading the second book of the Robert Langdon series, The Da Vinci Code, which had this gripping account of medieval freemasonry. Before reading Brown, I had thought of Freemasons as just another cult. After The Da Vinci Code, I looked it up.
Book 6 of the Langdon series is strategically called The Secret of Secrets. This one is labeled a

Despite the persistence of many-sided injustices and problems in unequal societies, democracy opens up several windows of opportunities which can be used by committed social activists, working with the help of respected mentors, to achieve significant rights for workers. This brings new hope to workers and the possibilities of replicating such efforts lead to more initiatives and greater hope. This in turn strengthens democracy and the various provisions of social justice in India

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If aadhaar based digital injustice, slavery and totalitarianism is not wrong, nothing is wrong.
The question:Are we all going to continue to give our consent to voluntary servitude to the beneficial owners of the automatic identification and biometric profiling machines, or will we confront the naturalisation of the politics of obedience? raises the oldest political questions about knowledge, authority, power and human dignity. In his book The Politics Of Obedience: The (…)