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Parties and alliances, and variegated caste and interest groups, are repositioning themselves to optimise their strengths in Bihar before the Assembly election which is due later this year. After the BJP’s victory in Haryana for a third time in a row and the NDA recouping its losses in the 2024 general election to return to … Read more

As ethnic leaders and stakeholders sat across negotiating tables in Delhi discussing a road map for peace in Manipur, I chose to travel in the opposite direction — into the heart of the troubled State. I needed to see for myself what the numbers, the reports, and the headlines could not convey. What I witnessed … Read more

History, textbook revisions As someone who wrote the Central Board of Secondary Education Class XII Board examinations, with history and political science as my subjects, the deletion of select topics and chapters by the National Council of Educational Research and Training in the guise of a “rationalisation of content in the textbooks” is appalling. Under … Read more

‘The government has defined hydrogen produced by electrolysers using electricity from solar and wind as green and has provided incentives’  | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto The goal of achieving a net-zero economy can be realised only by massive electrification of end uses of energy. Besides their use in generating electricity, fossil fuels are used to … Read more

Jasprit Bumrah bowls during day two of the fifth NRMA Insurance Test match of the Border Gavaskar trophy between Australia and India at the Sydney Cricket Ground on January 4, 2025 in Sydney, Australia. | Photo Credit: Getty Images Some five decades ago, after India had been swamped 0-3 in a Test series in England, … Read more

In April 2023, a power struggle between two generals pushed Sudan, which witnessed a revolution and a counter-revolutionary coup in the preceding years, into a devastating cycle of violence. The conflict has displaced nearly 13 million people, transformed cities, including the capital, Khartoum, into war zones, and triggered economic collapse, inducing the world’s first officially … Read more

At the centre of the controversy over 400 acres of land in Kancha Gachibowli are multiple stakeholders: the Telangana government, University of Hyderabad, students, environmental activists, and political parties. Each views the land differently — as resource, sanctuary, asset, or symbol. File | Photo Credit: PTI A blind spot is a gap in our field … Read more

Visitors at the Parliament House on September 20, 2023, the day of the debate on Women’s reservation bill in the Lok Sabha. | Photo Credit: PTI While current debates on delimitation focus on its impact on the federal balance of power, another historic rebalancing is contingent on it — the implementation of the Women’s Reservation … Read more

‘Much of the chaos in today’s world arises not because we forget history but because we seek to relive or reverse it’ | Photo Credit: The Hindu In March 2025, a wave of textbook revisions such as omitting or vilifying figures like Babur and Aurangzeb while glorifying select native rulers, coincided with rising public anger … Read more

India’s industrial production growth slowed to a six-month low in February to 2.9%, down from January’s 5.2% (revised estimates) and almost halved from last February’s 5.6%. This decline was broad-based, except for a marginal rise in power production of 3.6%, up from January’s 3.4%, but less than half of last February’s 7.6%. While mining witnessed … Read more