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WHEN FAITH FREEZES THE EVIDENCE
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. 
India's 7.8% GDP Question: Claim, Trust & Reality
What the Q1 FY2026-27 print means after a new base year, a statistical fight, a jobs crisis and a geopolitical stress test India is almost certainly growing fast. The unresolved question is whether the growth is broad, job-rich and transparent enough to be believed by the people who are meant to benefit from it. 
When the Mountain Fell into the River
By Prof Ujjwal K Chowdhury
Blurb. A mountain of ice and rock collapsed into a Himalayan headwater and sent a wall of debris through Nepal’s Bhote Koshi–Trishuli corridor. The calamity... 
Safety First: Why Arunachal Must Reconsider Its Development Model
By Prof Ujjwal K. Chowdhury
THE PROPOSITION
Arunachal Pradesh does not have to choose between poverty and peril. It has to choose whether its rivers, forests and cultures will be... 
THE MOST DANGEROUS SURGICAL STRIKE
The Day the Prime Minister Decided to Face a Press Conference, A political satire on power, silence, microphones and the terrifying democratic weapon called a question 
The Republic Learns to Listen
By Prof Ujjwal K. Chowdhury
On 1 September, the Supreme Court dissolved the immediate legal fog around the summer's student protests. It ordered the closure, across India, of FIRs connected... 
Editorial | When Gen Z Made Power Answer: Why Dharmendra Pradhan Had to Resign
By Prof Ujjwal K Chowdhury
A Paper Leak Became a Crisis of Accountability
Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation as Union Education Minister on July 25, 2026, was not caused by one viral... 
The Exam Is Rigged, Not The Protest
Prof Ujjwal K Chowdhury explores India's student uprising against paper leaks - and the machinery trying to discredit it. 
Indian Democracy on Trial: The Footsteps of an Undeclared Emergency
From the tear gas and barricades of the July 20 “Sansad Chalo” march to the threatened forests of Great Nicobar, India’s citizens are increasingly being treated not as participants in democracy, but as problems to be controlled.
From Ice Stupas to a Youth Satyagraha : Sonam Wangchuk’s Next Mountain
Prof Ujjwal K Chowdhury
His forced hospitalisation has interrupted a historic fast, but it cannot be allowed to interrupt the struggle for examination integrity, educational justice and dignified opportunities for... About The Author
