Exam Mess: Can IAF, PM Rebuild Trust ? / First NEET, now CUET: The growing crisis of trust in India’s entrance tests

Bharat Bhushan In the wake of the NEET-UG question paper leak, the state’s response has been astounding. The Union HRD Minister has said that the help of the Indian Air Force (IAF) will be sought for the secure transportation of examination question papers ahead of the re-exam on June 21. And the Supreme Court has… Read More Exam Mess: Can IAF, PM Rebuild Trust ? / First NEET, now CUET: The growing crisis of trust in India’s entrance tests

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HRIC Statement Calling for the Protection of Human Rights Defender Dong Guangping

HUMAN RIGHTS IN CHINA May 27, 2026 Human Rights in China (HRIC) urgently calls on the South Korean government and the international community to protect Chinese human rights defender Dong Guangping, who arrived in South Korea on the night of May 25 after crossing the Yellow Sea in an inflatable boat to seek political asylum. He… Read More HRIC Statement Calling for the Protection of Human Rights Defender Dong Guangping

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Hope Against Hope

Generations of organisers and dissidents have kept the Iranian struggle alive Sahar Delijani Source: EQUATOR A protest in Tehran against mandatory veiling, 1979 / Courtesy Hengameh Golestan and Archaeology of the Final Decade 1. A few hours after I was born, my mother and I were taken back to prison. It was September 1983, four… Read More Hope Against Hope

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LASZLO LADANY: The Communist Party of China and Marxism 1921-1985: A Self-Portrait (1988)

Presented below is the Foreword by ROBERT ELEGANT. And this is an excellent review: Simon Leys: The art of interpreting non-existent inscriptions written in invisible ink on a blank page. Book review As his seventieth year approached, Laszlo Ladany decided to retire from the strenuous tasks of periodical scholarship to which he had voluntarily subordinated himself since… Read More LASZLO LADANY: The Communist Party of China and Marxism 1921-1985: A Self-Portrait (1988)

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Book review: Souls in the Kalyug

Beyond remittances: A rare insight into the everyday lives of migrant workers Social anthropologist Shankar Ramaswami’s ‘Souls in the Kalyug’ is a rich, multi-layered text that provides a window into workers’ lives in India, including some hopeful strands within the destructive churnings of global capitalism.  Sapan BookshelfSouls in the Kalyug: The Politics and Cosmologies of Migrant… Read More Book review: Souls in the Kalyug

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CBSE’s evaluation tenders, analysed by a student from the 2025-26 batch (FB)

SOURCE: Facebook This is an unbelievable piece of work by Sarthak and something that requires amplification Let me explain what he found, in simple terms. Sarthak is a Class 12 student from the 2025-26 batch, one of the 17 lakh students whose answer sheets went through CBSE’s new On-Screen Marking system. He spent days reading… Read More CBSE’s evaluation tenders, analysed by a student from the 2025-26 batch (FB)

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Shobhit Mahajan: As AI replaces thinking, learning is eroding

The Tribune, 16 December, 2025 Chat GPT and Google Gemini are rapidly becoming the go-to places for students. That by itself is not surprising-after all generations of students have found ways to avoid rigor and skirt around academic engagement.  Champion Guides (which condensed the whole course into a pocket-sized paperback) were followed by short YouTube… Read More Shobhit Mahajan: As AI replaces thinking, learning is eroding

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Tyrants: A History of Power, Injustice, and Terror

Review by Patrick Malcolmson “In a time when tyranny is resurgent all over the globe, in a bewildering variety of forms – military and civilian, theocratic and kleptocratic, ideological and tribal – this book provides a synoptic historical and philosophic perspective that does full justice to the manifold phenomenon in all its range and complexity.”… Read More Tyrants: A History of Power, Injustice, and Terror

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Suhas Palshikar: Anatomy of India’s New Regime

NB: An instructive essay on our current dispensation. I would sum up this regime’s method as a confusion of wisdom with cunning; its speech as unending sophistry (लफ़्फ़ाज़ी); and its goal as the eradication of simple human decency from public life. DS India’s current regime rests on three interwoven factors: Hindutva, a captured civil society,… Read More Suhas Palshikar: Anatomy of India’s New Regime

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