The Union government is set to introduce the Viksit Bharat – Guarantee For Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) Bill to replace the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), ...

INDIA NEEDS A new formula to bring about a rational and fair method of representation in Parliament. Every seat needs to have a value. India is a federal country and has adopted parliamentary form of ...

The functioning of democracy depends upon the harmonious coordination of all the three organs of the state namely Legislature, Executive and Judiciary. The observations made by the PM-EAC member on ...

A welfare state modeled on ideals of social responsibility & respect for rights ceding ground to private business interests and cost cutting In the last session of Parliament as the year 2025 winds to ...

The Sanchar Saathi is the latest episode in the saga of Indian digital governance. It showcases a big shift from welfare-oriented digital platforms to more structural forms of state surveillance.

Allegations of large-scale ‘vote chori’ [Vote theft] are now at the centre of India’s political storm. The Opposition accuses the Election Commission and BJP of mass voter deletions, duplicate entries ...

I see it every day. Feminist advice for the current regime. Don’t, under any circumstances, have children right now. No matter how the regime tries to bribe you, no matter the social pressure, no ...

After the Congress no-show in the November 2025 Bihar assembly election, Rahul Gandhi has become the punching pad for his friends and foes alike. Everyone, irrespective of their political standing, is ...

PART II (Part I appeared as Why the RSS-BJP Juggernaut Needs a Political Seawall in the Dec 6, 2025 issue of Mainstream) Hans ran and ran, past the fields of tulips and past the windmills. His small ...

* Manufacturing Steel, Manufacturing Chaos: On the Capitalist Pressure to Extract in Odisha - Part 1 ; Ranjana Padhi * Obituary: James Watson (...) ...

The Armed Forces Special Powers Act of 1958 has been the most controversial component of the internal security apparatus in postcolonial India. In this essay we explore the application of this act ...

(This article is in two parts. Part One gives an overview of how steel production has scaled new heights in Odisha as India becomes the second largest steel producer in the world. It is almost twenty ...