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The Supreme Court Turns Pro-People on Aravallis

India, Jan. 5 -- The Supreme Court, on December 29, 2025, in an unexpected but welcome move, suo motu stayed its November 20 order on the definition of the Aravalli Hills and Ranges. The November ruli... Read More


How the Court and Government Play Us for Fools

India, Jan. 5 -- The Aravalli range is dying a death by a thousand cuts. But the real tragedy isn't just the mining. It's the breathtaking hypocrisy of the very institutions sworn to protect this land... Read More


Oath in the Capital!

India, Jan. 5 -- While the rest of the world sits with diaries open and gym memberships renewed, resolving to drink more water and scroll less, something far more honest happens in the capital of Indi... Read More


Horrors Turn "Normal"

India, Jan. 5 -- Official Silence Is Shocking While Xi Jinping was at Mahabalipuram admiring Indian art and listening to Modi's 'political wisdom,' the People's Liberation Army was pushing the Chinese... Read More


MGNREGA to VB-GRAM-G: Denial of Right to Work

India, Jan. 5 -- It is a global fact that MGNREGA, that is, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) of 2005, was and is acclaimed as a global model for social security and... Read More


The Twenty Years of Ontological Wounds

India, Jan. 5 -- I was born like anyone else. Yet I was never treated like anyone else. The name Pariah was given to me. And its meaning was carved into my skin. I learned to walk alone. Quietly under... Read More


Christmas Violence: Not an Aberration, but a Serious Warning

India, Jan. 5 -- Christmas violence against Christians in India has ceased to be an aberration. Christmas now functions as a yearly test of India's constitutional commitment to religious freedom-and i... Read More


A Helpless Prime Minister Amid Rising Attacks on Christians?

India, Jan. 5 -- In recent years, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has repeatedly reached out to India's Christian community. On several occasions, especially around Christmas, he has visited churches, ho... Read More


Can a Grand Alliance Offer a Credible Alternative?

India, Jan. 5 -- If the impotency that characterises the presence of key institutions of rural governance is anything to go by, it is abundantly clear that political considerations have prevailed over... Read More


2025: A Year of Diminishing Empathy and Growing Insensitivity and Injustice

India, Jan. 5 -- The end of a year offers individuals, institutions, nations, and the global community an opportunity for introspection and learning from the experiences of the past twelve months. Lif... Read More