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Citizen’s Burden

When the government insists that an Indian passport is not proof of Indian citizenship, something more than a legal clarification is at stake.

War and Consent

The most enduring consequence of a war is often not what happens on the battlefield, but what it reveals about the institutions that authorise it.

Plutocracy gone crazy

At its zenith, England was known as a nation of shopkeepers, where trade followed the crown; this was however interchangeable ~ the East India Company accumulated an empire, many times the size of the mother country.

Jharkhand exposes several fault lines

Jharkhand welcomed its 12th Chief Minister, Champai Soren. The State faced a political crisis when its former Chief Minister, Hemant Soren, resigned before being arrested by the Enforcement Directorate on money laundering charges.

Nuanced approach

Finance Minister Nirmala Sithara- man's announcement that India aims to reduce its fiscal deficit to 5.1 per cent of GDP in 2024-25 sends a strong signal to investors.

Game-changer

The promise of AI is not merely about job displacement and creation but as a potential game- changer in public services.

Swamiji’s relevance

The 19th century Bengal Renaissance had been the force behind the influx of Western rationality and thought in India. Fed up with the superstition accumulated over the ages, educated Indians decided to do away completely with ‘religion‘. It is now fashionable to speak of ‘secular education‘ – where the word ‘secular‘ is interpreted to mean devoid of any particular religious beliefs whatsoever. But this apparently ‘neutral‘ stand has often sucked out the life-giving components from culture and education. In the attempt to remove the weeds from a plant, the very plant has been cut down, as it were