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India’s Voter Roll Crisis and the Demand for Gyanesh Kumar’s Resignation!
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How the SIR dispute, internal objections at the Election Commission and a Gen Z protest call have turned a pre-poll process into a test of democratic trust.
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The High Price of Patriotism in a Kolkata Eatery!
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It seems these days that to love one’s country, one must first possess a booming voice, an aggressively pointed index finger, and a complete, glorious detachment from basic reason.
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ECI Press Note: Nine Correctives Fourteen Questions and the Accountability Gap
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The September 26 ECI reset improves future procedures but leaves key questions about past decisions unanswered
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The Chinese President Xi Jinping in his recent visit to USA has emphatically called for the human-in-the-loop Artificial Intelligence, meaning human controlled AI models and their operations. Artificial intelligence can widen access to knowledge and...
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From the Aravallis to Arunachal, and from Great Nicobar to Ladakh, big-ticket projects are being advanced through a system that counts megawatts, ports and contracts more readily than forests, water, consent and risk, finds Prof Ujjwal K Chowdhury.
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India's Big GDP Argument: What's Real, What's Rhetoric, What's Missing?
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Somewhere between a WhatsApp forward claiming India "faked" 7.8% growth and a government press release calling it a triumph, most Indians have quietly given up trying to understand their own economy's report card. That's...
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BRICS in New Delhi Big Promise Poor Delivery
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The New Delhi summit can be a spectacular diplomatic event and still produce a modest collective result. BRICS has real weight, a real development bank and a legitimate Global South grievance. But its members remain divided over the dollar,...
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India's Skills–Jobs Paradox: Certificates Without Chairs, Training Without Ladders
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India has built the world's most ambitious skilling bureaucracy. It has not yet built a labour market that rewards the skill. The error is conceptual: we treat training as the near-cause of employment. A...
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Vidyanand Bapat Has Lost His Way — He Should Stop Giving Interviews
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India can land a spacecraft on the Moon and still mistake freezer ice for a divine visitation. The next science mission is not only to communicate achievements, but to build citizens who can question, verify and use technology without surrendering judgment.
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