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• Prison And Civilising Punishment | Sunita Samal

  5 July 2025, by Sunita Samal

  Abstract: In the civilised world, from the mid-19th century, there has been no place for excessive, brutalising public punishments such as stoning, amputation, mutilation, and so on. Civilised people do not want to see that sort of thing. A functioning democracy itself has become one that has, for example, high levels of health care and literacy rates and low levels of infant mortality. Furthermore, it is likely to have strict provisions on child labour as well as a low rate of cruelty to (…)

• Thoughts on 2025 Debates over the 1975 Emergency | Radhakanta Barik

  5 July 2025, by Radhakanta Barik

  The Hindutva politics is playing hide and seek game with the emergency and their stories they want to repeat. As their past is inglorious and present is not so bright and future depends on

• Bangladesh Teeters: Yunus

  5 July 2025

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• Indira hatao campaign since 1970 forced her to impose Emergency | Faraz Ahmad

  5 July 2025, by Faraz Ahmad

  On lune 4, 1984, Indian Army launched an assault on Harminder Sahib in Amritsar, imposing state wide curfew with no newspaper allowed to publish, or newsmen to venture out of their homes. I was an Indian Express reporter in Chandigarh then. Apart from Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, much-decorated PVSM, AVSM Major General. Shubeg Singh, who had joined forces with the Sikh militants out of pique for being implicated on trumped up charges in false cases and discharged at the fag-end of his (…)

• Dark Shadows of Emergency! | Subhash Gatade

  5 July 2025, by Subhash Gatade

  How they have become arsenal for the majoritarian Hindutva forces to convert the sovereign, independent, secular, socialist republic into a Hindu Rashtra.
  [ 25 th June 2025 happened to be the fiftieth year of the internal emergency imposed by the then Indira Gandhi regime. Much has changed during all these years but till date we are still far away from a balanced review of that period.
  What really prompted Indira Gandhi to declare emergency , whether drive for personal power was the key (…)

• Reading Michel Foucault in the Time of Chaos | Arup Kumar Sen

  5 July 2025, by Arup Kumar Sen

  We are witnessing escalating onslaught on the Islamic countries after Donald Trump came to power in America. In the ongoing brutal attacks by Israel on the Palestinian people in the Gaza strip, Trump threatened that the US could

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  Bunker Roy

  5 July 2025, by Bharat Dogra

  Bunker Roy, who turns 80 today on 30 June, 2025 has been among the most creative and inspiring personalities of voluntary organizations all over the world. During the last six decades he has contributed so much innovative development work that it is adequate for several lifetimes, and several of the ideas he took forward became trend-setters for important development initiatives.
  After education in the Doon School and St Stephens college (and in addition becoming a squash champion), Bunker (…)

• Seeing the Unseen: The Silent Tyranny of Gender Norms | Apoorva Pandey

  5 July 2025

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• Trump

  5 July 2025, by Soma S. Marla

  US senate has just passed the "One Big, Beautiful Bill" . Inflation Reduction Act and end to tax credits in the bill may potentially slash incentives to programs for solar, wind, Electrical Vehicles. Environmentalists and climate experts say, the bill kills clean energy projects in United States and possibly a big blow to energy transition to rescue the over heated planet. This bill comes at a time when the earth has recently crossed 1.5 degrees Celsius, a warning threshold above (…)

• Understanding Munir

  5 July 2025, by M R Narayan Swamy

  The United States and Pakistan are akin to lovers whose relationship is always in doubt.
  Drawn by differing self-interests, the two countries have had a patron-client affinity right from the early 1950s because Pakistan was willing to play a role which Jawaharlal Nehru