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Monthly Archives: August, 2026

UPI went digital. Now cash goes plastic.

If you'd told someone five years ago that India, the country running the world's...

Process reforms vs big bang

Micro changes are delivering macro results

What Rahul Gandhi gets wrong about patriarchy

In the humid evening air of Pune’s AISSMS College ground on 22 August 2026,...

How India’s critical media actually works

Funding, serving interests and the politics behind independent media

Being Gen Z isn’t a free pass to do anything

In the high-altitude, strategically sensitive terrain of Ladakh, near the Minimarg checkpoint on the...

Is this the end to illegal coaching centres?

In a residential neighbourhood of Jaipur, coaching centres have been running for years in...

Why Vande Mataram remains contested even after 80 years

God and Caesar, church and state, spiritual authority and temporal authority, have been a...

Foreign-funded NGOs, fuelled activism

India’s debate over foreign funding is often portrayed in global forums as a binary...

Pakistan’s fourfather problem

Why this Islamic republic has struggled with its identity

The solution to India’s floods

Assam’s Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has said: 'Declaring floods a national problem is...

Why is Japan quietly building an industrial corridor through India’s Northeast?

For most of the coverage cycle around Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's July visit...

The hypocrisy of the US

FARA is sovereignty, FCRA is persecution? The theo-politics of American pressure on India

Introduction to Vedanta

The Vedas are neither books nor the utterances of persons, but the accumulated treasury...

Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam’s supporters will never tell you about these people

Alok Tiwari. Deepak Kumar. Dinesh Kumar. Ratan Lal. Naresh Kumar Saini. Vinod Kumar. Ankit...