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Next year, the world’s largest NGO or non-governmental organisation marks its centenary. The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh was founded in 1925 at a single shakha in Nagpur and today, according to its website, has over 57,000 daily shakhas across India. RSS says it does not keep...

Almost 60 per cent of empanelled IAS officers just got the nod as secretaries and equivalents, and most of them are getting a five-year stint. This is Modi Sarkar’s way of providing long tenures to high-ranking officials so that they can sink their teeth into...

India had to bear with on an average two anti-Moslem hate speech events per day in 2023 and not surprisingly three in every four of those events – or 75 per cent – occurred in states ruled by the BJP. More significantly, the flurry of...

The All India Household Consumption Expenditure Survey 2022-23 report released on 24 February throws up interesting facts and figures about the patterns and preferences of different food items being consumed by rural and urban India. But, its timing and the main drift of the findings...

Two of the most prominent names in the Indian startup ecosystem – Paytm and Byju’s – are fighting their biggest battles for survival. While the former has faced regulatory crackdown from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) for “persistent non-compliances,” the latter has witnessed erosion...

I am writing this from the United States, where I attended an interesting solidarity meeting that I thought I should write about. It was interesting because it combined two struggles — that for secularism in democratic India and against imperialism in occupied Palestine. Hosted by...

The tension between US President Joe Biden and Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is growing to the extent that the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas may make even the seemingly impossible possible - the formation of a Palestinian state. In fact, reliable reports suggest...

The name Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, conjures up images of fearless revelations of government wrongdoings of monumental proportions and years of persecution thereafter. He represents the cause of journalism, especially in the digital age, and is looked upon as a hero in various...

The death of Alexei Navalny, the man Vladimir Putin feared the most, is not only mysterious but seems likely to be the end of political dissent in Russia. The fiercest pro-democracy voice in the despotic state has turned silent forever. The 47-year-old, who was serving...

India’s electoral bonds scheme has been declared illegal, a rare win in court for those resisting authoritarianism. But many elections including the last general one have been fought on these unlawful funds. It would have been appropriate to have heard and adjudicated on the issue...