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  God’s shadow over Mizoram peace | M.R. Narayan Swamy

  15 August, by M R Narayan Swamy

  BOOK REVIEW
  From Guerrilla Fighter to Chief Minister: A Memoir by Zoramthanga
  Penguin/Eight; Pages: xvi + 443; Price: Rs 599 In an age when politicians take credit for everything they do even while spending the tax payers’ money, it is heartening to see a guerrilla-turned-political leader give full marks to God for turning Mizoram from one of the most disturbed regions into India’s most peaceful state.
  Zoramthanga, a pioneer of the once feared Mizo National Front (MNF) who was later (…)

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  Arun Shourie Tears Apart ‘Veer’ Savarkar and his Myths | M.R. Narayan Swamy

  15 August

  BOOK REVIEW The New Icon: Savarkar and the Facts by Arun Shourie
  Penguin/Viking Pages: xviii + 543; Price: Rs 999 Vinayak Damodar Savarkar bragged, exaggerated and even lied. When the Congress battled the British, he did not mind collaborating with the colonial masters. He was adept in spewing hate. Scholar and veteran journalist Arun Shourie says one has to in fact search hard for revolutionary acts that can be traced back to Savarkar. It is such a man who got the sobriquet ‘Veer’ (Brave) (…)

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  The Plumber Farooq’s bicycle at Mrs Mangaliks’ garden in Lucknow (July 10, 2026) | Photo by Pooja Thakur

  15 August
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  Video: Prof. Prabhu Mohapatra speaks on Dr. Umar Khalid’s Book "Fractured Communities" at Press Club

  15 August

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  Prof. Prabhu Mohapatra speaks on Dr. Umar Khalid’s Book "Fractured Communities" at Press Club by Samim Asgor Ali JNU https://youtu.be/HCnr92TWZbE?si=IG3-XMnZOVebi4oN

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  Video: From Law Reform to Legal Practice: Where are We on Women’s Inheritance Claims? by Prof. Bina Agarwal

  15 August

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  From Law Reform to Legal Practice: Where are We on Women’s Inheritance Claims? by Prof. Bina Agarwal by Debates BA https://youtu.be/VFxYi639XQA?si=5CkFHsJZSdWcnRZZ

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  Music: Piotr Ilitch Tchaïkovski - Casse-noisette, 1892 | Dir. Peter Wohlert Berlin Symphony Orchestra

  15 August

  The Nutcracker Suite Full Album Play
  The Nutcracker Suite Full Album: Tchaikovsky by Geographic Mapping Technologies, LLC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mis0O8CZk90

• The 100-year Project: Planned Steps to Subvert Education | Papri Sen Sri Raman

  30 July, by Papri Sen Sri Raman

  GUEST EDITORIAL
  Like a flock of passing locusts clouding the sky of prosperity for the farmer, perhaps revolution came and left… the destruction it left in its wake is a template for the uncertain future of protest politics, the rise of ‘ridicule’ as a political strategy and the loss of fear as tool of governance. For now, democracy has survived. Won? No.
  Unlike Asian neighbours Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bangladesh, the Jantar Mantar protest has, however achieved far less than what the media (…)

• Hindutva got the cracks in its pyramid | Radhakanta Barik

  30 July, by Radhakanta Barik

  Modi and Shah Regime are based on fear and suppression of masses. Modi felt himself the king and Shah is commander in chief. Both showed cruelty towards the citizens of India. They started campaign of hatred against the Muslims and they used bulldozer against the innocent people. Modi Shah brought the public property into the market for auction. It is carefully crafted in such a manner that all these public properties have gone to Adani and Ambani. Education has been pushed to medieval times (…)

• The Jantar Mantar Protests Were All About Accountability — A Must For Education Bodies, Police Forces And Courts | Indira Jaising, Pratik Patnaik

  30 July

  July 28, 2026
  ‘kaise akash mein surakh nahin ho sakta, ek patthar to tabiyat se uchhalo yaaro’ –-Dushyant Kumar
  They Lifted A Book and made a hole in the sky.
  Remember the young woman in Mumbai who stood with her arms flung wide and brought a police van to a halt? Remember the young woman at Jantar Mantar, thin from many days without food, lifting the Constitution of India above her head, not in anger, but in the way one lifts a lamp.
  For weeks they had been told to lower it, to fold (…)

• The Cockroaches Came Together | Varna Sri Raman

  30 July, by Varna Sri Raman

  A judge’s insult became a political party, a sit-in at Jantar Mantar, and a march on Parliament that met lathis and tear gas on the first day of the Monsoon Session.
  Underneath the satire sits an examination agency that has produced two leak scandals in three years, and a labour market that offered 8,868 railway posts to 1.22 crore applicants.
  The student crowd is the oldest recurring actor in Indian politics, and the state’s playbook against it has changed less since 1974 than the (…)