2025

• Chhattisgarh: No grave to lay my head | John Dayal
  18 January, by John Dayal
  January 21, 2025
  Indian citizens, regardless of their religion, have freedom of dignity in life, and in death, assurances that are seldom kept
  In the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh, villagers, local authorities and even the state’s High  (...)
• UGC’s Draft Regulations—violative of rules and anti-federal | P.S. Jayaramu
  18 January, by P S Jayaramu
  January 16, 2025
  The University Grants Commission ( UGC) recently came up with a draft regulation which covers many important aspects connected with higher education and its governance statures. Its key features need o be dissected.
  At the  (...)
• Fifty days of Dallewal’s fast: The mode of resistance must change | Prem Singh
  18 January, by Prem Singh
  It is a good development that the Samyuykt Kisan Morcha (SKM) has indicated a supportive attitude towards the farmers’ resistance movement being carried out under the joint aegis of the Samyukt Kisan Morcha (non-political) and Kisan Mazdoor  (...)
• Congress must lead INDIA and its ouster from the bloc would prove to be disastrous for secular and liberal politics | Arun Srivastava
  18 January
  Jan 14, 2025
  A chorus for giving an unwept burial to the INDIA bloc, which till nine months back was perceived as the emancipator to the poor and oppressed and a challenger to the rightist ideology and a secular claimant to power, is  (...)
• Confronting India’s silent killer | Arkaprabha Sau
  18 January
  January 13, 2025
  Preventing silicosis demands integrating technological, public health and sustainable livelihood solutions.
  Sitting on his haunches in the midst of a massive pile of red sandstone blocks, 45-year-old Hemraj Kishore’s (name  (...)
• Tata Group hounds a whistleblower | Upal Chakraborty
  18 January, by Upal Chakraborty
  An intriguing criminal case (Case No. CRR 2540 of 2024) has come up in Calcutta High Court and is expected to unravel the unholy nexus between corporates, criminals, Govt officials and Police. Notices have been issued to the Govt of West Bengal,  (...)
• Escalation of Indian Surveillance in the Indo-Bangladesh Border | Arup Kumar Sen
  18 January, by Arup Kumar Sen
  The recent change in the political regime in Bangladesh has escalated Indo-Bangladesh border surveillance in West Bengal. Reports carried in The Indian Express bear testimony to it: “Tension has been brewing in the Indo-Bangladesh border area in  (...)
• Disability, A Lived Experience | Allen David Simon
  18 January
  Excluded, illtreated and left behind
  Although disability rights movement has not registered a presence in India, it has undoubtably made significant progress in the lives of persons with disability, pushing a more disabled-friendly policy  (...)
• Manmohan Singh’s Contribution to India’s Rightward Drift | Arun Kumar
  18 January, by Arun Kumar
  A shorter version of this article appeared in The Wire on January 5, 2025. Titled, ‘If Manmohan Singh had been more Firm, the Right may not have been as Dominant as it is Today’
  Glowing tributes have been paid to Dr. Manmohan Singh at his death.  (...)
• Battle of ideas, not battle of leaflets | Ash Narain Roy
  18 January, by Ash Narain Roy
  US President-elect Donald Trump’s “first buddy” Elon Musk has become what Guardian columnist Alexander Hurst calls a “one-man rogue state.” It is not clear who is basking in whose reflected glory. The tech billionaire is the de facto leader of the  (...)

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