There is a deeper systemic rot that goes far beyond seeing this crisis as an episodic event embedded in the NEET scandal. Deepanshu Mohan, 360info Sonipat: Exam paper leaks cause immense damage to the psychological state of India’s younger generation in pursuit of a better, more progressive future. The NEET exam scandal has emerged as an… Read More The NEET Exam Leaks Controversy And Its Implications For Indian Youth
Ravish Kumar: केदारनाथ धाम से 228 किलो सोना ग़ायब-शंकराचार्य 228 किलो सोना ग़ायब होने के आरोप के बाद क्या केंद्र सरकार जांच कराएगी? एक साल से सोना ग़ायब होने के आरोप लग रहे हैं। राज्य सरकार ने अपने स्तर पर जांच की है लेकिन शंकराचार्य ने नए सिरे से आरोप लगाकर इस मामले को नया… Read More केदारनाथ धाम से 228 किलो सोना ग़ायब: शंकराचार्य अविमुक्तेश्वरानंद
Everywhere stars rise to power as charismatic demagogues and risk-takers, but these very qualities breed in them an implacable desire to control all power and push away all they see as worthy replacements. Mrinal Pande Somewhere one had come across a story about ageing penguins. It said that a sleepy penguin may float atop the… Read More Yayati Syndrome: The Unreasonable Power Hunger of Ageing Men
NB: The entire spectrum of Indian politics was represented at the Ambani wedding, – an obscene spectacle of wealth ongoing for several months in a country marked by extreme economic disparity. As the chart below shows, Indian big business has been at the forefront of spreading hatred to promote our ruling dispensation. This is untrammelled… Read More Money, politics, and hypocrisy
Farmers and local NGOs say the indigenous rice varieties that are fast becoming extinct have unique nutrition, climate-resilience to ensure food security in increasingly unpredictable weather. Anumeha Yadav Sundargarh (Odisha), Latehar (Jharkhand): Deep inside the lush sal forest in Odisha’s Sundargarh, Albisia Lakda, an Adivasi farmer living in Subdega block had divided the rice crop on… Read More Grains of Life: How Chotanagpur’s Adivasis Are Reviving Native Varieties of Rice
Saba Naqvi; and P. Raman It is the centenary of the RSS next year, and it is an organisation that plays the long game. Towards that end, Prime Minister Narendra Modi was a great enabler of their ideological agenda. But now that the BJP has crashed in the nation’s two most populous States, Uttar Pradesh… Read More The RSS and Modi – Two Articles
Opposition Leader Rahul Gandhi lashed out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government in the Lok Sabha on Monday and said the NEET is not a professional examination but a commercial exam. He charged the Modi government treats Agniveers as “use-and-throw labour”. Addressing in the Lok Sabha on the motion of thanks for the president’s address,… Read More Agniveer ‘use-and-throw labour’ for govt; NEET a commercial exam
NB: The rendering permanent of an ’emergency’ was the Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt’s contribution to the jurisprudence of tyranny. For him, ‘sovereign is he who decides the state of exception‘; and politics was defined in its essence by the ‘friend-enemy distinction‘. I have developed this argument at length in my 2023 essay on the demolition… Read More Colonial Reality of India’s Criminal Laws Remains Despite the New Hindi Names
*PSF stands in solidarity with the teachers and staff at TISS* Statement issued by Progressive Students’ Forum, Date: 29 June 2024 After repeatedly targeting its students and curbing the campus democracy, the present TISS administration, under the BJP-led union government, has unleashed an attack on its employees as well. Recently, it has been learnt that… Read More Condemn the Mass Termination of around 100 Teaching and Non-Teaching Staff at TISS under the Union Government
NB: What is happening to Indian education is nothing short of organised crime. My heartfelt sympathy is due to the young people who are forced face so much tension and travail for absolutely no fault of theirs. It is not surprising that lacs of Indian students do their best, at great expense, to get educated… Read More Methodical destruction of the education system
After the truth-shower 