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Search ArticlesIndia’s Independence Day is Time to Emphasise Unity and Caution in Difficult Times
As India observes Independence Day on 15 August, three aspects of the present day situation are particularly important for its people and leadership in the government as well as the opposition. Firstly there should be clear understanding on all sides that these are exceptionally difficult times in terms of the wider world situation which one hopes will improve soon but on the basis of the available facts appears more likely to deteriorate further.
Flags, Field Marshals, and Foreign Masters: Pakistan’s Independence Pageant
Every August 14, Pakistan performs sovereignty like a state auditioning for the role of itself. Flags breed on rooftops. Fighter jets carve patriotism into the sky. Politicians discover freedom for twenty-four hours. Generals appear beneath enough ribbons to upholster a sofa and assure 250 million people that Pakistan bows before no one.
FCRA- When Regulation Becomes a Weapon: Will India Lose Its Minority Institutions?
There are moments when a piece of legislation appears technical but is, in fact, deeply political. The Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, or FCRA, is one such law. On the surface, it concerns foreign money entering India. Every sovereign country has a legitimate interest in knowing who sends money into the country, who receives it, how it is used and whether it is being diverted for unlawful purposes. No serious defence of civil society requires the state to abandon financial accountability.
The Trust We Live By
The greatest success of any institution is that we rarely have to think about it. We simply trust it to do what it was created to do We transfer money believing it will reach the right account. We send our children to school expecting examinations to be conducted fairly. We board trains assuming they will arrive safely. We enter hospitals trusting professional judgement. We read the morning news believing someone has separated fact from rumour before it reaches us. None of this feels extraordinary.
Gaza Death Camp: West Ignoring 700,000 Gaza Deaths From Imposed Deprivation
Every day we see the shocking images of devastated Gaza and comprehend a high probability that infants and indeed ourselves could not survive the manifest deprivation from life-sustaining requisites. As estimated from data and methodology published in The Lancet, 875,000 Gazans have died from violence, 175,000, and deprivation, 700,000. However Western media ignore indirect deaths and some academics claim that indirect deaths are only 11% of the direct deaths from violence.
Israel Assassinates Gaza Police Chief in Fresh Violation of the Ceasefire
Israel assassinated the head of the Gaza governorate police, Colonel Jamal Abu Kumeil, in an airstrike that targeted his vehicle southwest of Gaza City, in a fresh violation of the ceasefire in force since October. The strike killed the senior officer as he traveled through the area, in the latest in a series of Israeli assassinations that have continued unbroken despite the truce.
The Fall of a Crusader: Tarun Tejpal, Tehelka, and Journalism’s Hardest Reckoning
When the Story Becomes Personal There are moments in a journalist’s life when a news story refuses to remain just another headline. It becomes intertwined with memory, conviction, and identity. The conviction of Tarun Tejpal by the Bombay High Court in the 2013 sexual assault case is one such moment. For many, the verdict marks the legal conclusion of one of India’s most closely watched cases involving media power and workplace sexual misconduct.
The Vanishing Government School: Caste, Class and the Quiet Dismantling of India’s Public Education Promise
Abstract Over the past decade, India has witnessed the closure or merger of more than 93,000 government schools, a transformation officially justified as administrative “rationalisation” and educational efficiency. Yet this process is unfolding unevenly, with its greatest consequences borne by Dalit, Adivasi, OBC and poor Muslim children who rely overwhelmingly on neighbourhood government schools.
What the Republic Must Remember
Independence is easy to commemorate because history has given it a date. Democracy is more difficult because it has no single anniversary. It has to be reproduced every day through institutions, elections, courts, legislatures, political parties, public administration and, ultimately, through the relationship between the citizen and the State. The Republic of India should therefore approach Independence Day with a question more demanding than whether the country has become stronger since 1947.
India Is Learning to Teach Languages Orally. Will It Learn to Listen to Its Oral Languages?
On July 2, CBSE issued its R3 Language Assessment Framework for Class IX. One feature deserves attention: the framework follows an “Oral-First Pedagogy” and gives 40 marks to listening and speaking. These skills are to be assessed through activities conducted across the academic session. (https://cbseacademic.nic.in/web_material/Circulars/2026/46_Circular_2026.pdf) Pedagogically, this makes sense. Children listen before they read. They speak before they write.