The harbinger of freedom of conscience in India
Long before constitutional guarantees or modern rights charters, India witnessed a defining assertion of freedom of conscience. It came not from a monarch, parliament or court, but from the scaffold at Delhi's Chandni Chowk on 24 November 1675, when Guru Tegh Bahadur, the ninth Sikh Guru, chose martyrdom to defend...
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Scientific nationalism: Reuniting science, culture, and conscience
24 November 2025 | A Ashvathaman -
Clean India requires change in mindset and policy
24 November 2025 | Kajleen Kaur -
An Advaitic Critique of Marxism
22 November 2025 | Acharya Prashant -
The Chaitanyanand case and the perils of blind faith exposed nationwide now
22 November 2025 | Atul Sehgal -
Why India must treat terrorism as a national disaster
21 November 2025 | Satendra Singh -
New pension dilemma: Why the 2025 validation law has stirred anxiety
21 November 2025 | VK Bahuguna -
Odisha: How one girl’s choice is challenging child marriage
21 November 2025 | Swapna Majumdar
Bihar elections: The crash and collapse of Congress
The reasons for the recent Congress’s miserable performance in the Bihar Assembly elections are readily discernible in two succinct statements— one by Prime Minister Modi and the other by the Congress commissar Jairam Ramesh. In just one trope, PM Modi succinctly encapsulated all that is wrong with the Grand Old Party...
The forgotten Indian theory now powerfully driving the quantum age
A hundred years ago, a young physics teacher in Calcutta quietly rewrote the way nature counts. On November 20, the idea he discovered, known as Bose-Einstein statistics-turns 101. It is not the kind of anniversary that usually makes headlines. There are no rockets launching or satellites blinking in the sky....
A major yet preventable health risk for pregnant women
Anaemia continues to be a major health risk for pregnant women in India. According to the National Health Survey-5 (2019-21), nearly 57 per cent of women aged 15-49 in India are anaemic, compared with 25 per cent of men in the same age group. Among pregnant women in this group, 52.2...
Bihar’s verdict and the emerging grammar of Indian politics
The people of Bihar have delivered a mandate whose weight goes well beyond the arithmetic of seats. The National Democratic Alliance has won 202 of the 243 seats in the Legislative Assembly, while the Bharatiya Janata Party alone has secured 89 seats, its best ever performance in the state. The...
Red Fort blast signals a dangerous new phase in India’s fight against terror
On November 10th , after a decade, India experienced its first terror attack on its heartland, starting from the capital, which killed 13 and injured more than 20. The largest bomb strike in India since the 2006 Mumbai train bombings has nearly blurred the red lines of terror against India....
Catalysing innovation in India’s ESDM ecosystem
Electropreneur Park (EP), Bhubaneswar, has emerged as a transformative force in India’s innovation landscape, particularly within the Electronics System Design and Manufacturing (ESDM) domain. The Software Technology Parks of India (STPI) has set up the EP Bhubaneswar Centre of Entrepreneurship (CoE), with key stakeholders such as the Electronics & IT Department,...
Pakistan: The making of a new military state
While Pakistan and Bangladesh wrestle with their fragile relationship under the interim government led by Yunus, the International Tribunal is set to deliver its verdict on Monday, November 17, formally exposing the alleged “sins” of Sheikh Hasina’s rule. Hasina may face the harshest consequences imaginable, and her potential extradition from...
