Purple revolution a model for rural communities
There are moments in a nation’s journey when a quiet transformation in a remote corner becomes a symbol of national resurgence.
There are moments in a nation’s journey when a quiet transformation in a remote corner becomes a symbol of national resurgence.
Wars have often accelerated technological change. The machine gun altered infantry tactics, the tank transformed mobility, and air power redefined strategic reach.
President Donald Trump’s trade policy has acquired a second life. After the US Supreme Court curtailed key elements of the architecture that defined much of his economic agenda, the White House has returned with a familiar instrument wrapped in a different justification.
On 28 February 2026, the war that diplomats had spent two years rehearsing began. American and Israeli aircraft struck Iranian nuclear and missile installations; Iran’s Supreme Leader was killed, and by 2 March the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps had formally closed the Strait of Hormuz to merchant traffic, laying mines and warning off shipping.
Global warming policies were expected to drive a rapid shift toward a renewables-based energy system dominated by wind and solar.
In the run-up to polling in West Bengal, a constitutional paradox has quietly taken shape, one that exposes the limits of legal remedies when they collide with electoral time.
India’s policy imagination consistently outstrips its capacity to deliver. From flagship welfare schemes to ambitious infrastructure programmes, the country designs transformative policy with striking regularity and then watches much of it lose fidelity between the drafting table and the last mile.
Delhi has done a lot right with its draft Electric Vehicle (EV) Policy 2026.
It was over five decades back in 1972 that hundreds of dacoits, or baagis as they are called locally, voluntarily surrendered in Chambal valley of central India as part of a wider and inspirational social initiative for significant, beneficial, and durable social change achieved by non-violence.
China’s latest growth numbers offer reassurance at first glance, but they obscure a more uncomfortable reality: the world’s second-largest economy is increasingly reliant on external demand at precisely the moment when the global environment is turning hostile.
