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Sanjay Kumar, professor and co-director of the Lokniti-CSDS project.

Trust in Election Commission has gone down in last 5-7 years: Sanjay Kumar

Gyanesh Kumar, Chief Election Commissioner of India, in a press conference in New Delhi on August 17, 2025.

Gyanesh Kumar’s art of deflection

At his press conference, the CEC dismissed evidence of voter roll manipulation with bluster, leaving the Commission’s credibility at its lowest point.

Apoorvanand

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Members of the Democratic Youth Congress protest against the Modi government’s silence on US President Donald Trump’s tariff hike on Indian exports, on August 1, 2025.

SUM AND SUBSTANCE

Strongmen friendships do not safeguard nations

A tariff war will not wound Modi or Trump, but millions of Indian workers already on the edge.

Mitali Mukherjee

A US postage stamp commemorating Dunbar displayed at his house.

Paul Laurence Dunbar’s mask and the caged bird in Dalit resistance

The African American poet’s life of exclusion and hope resonates with Dalit literature and activism in 21st-century India.

Ilangovan Rajasekaran

Prime Minister Narendra Modi welcomed by the Indian diaspora in Washington, DC, on February 13.

The great Indian exodus

Behind Modi’s talk of Amrit Kaal, lakhs surrender passports each year—seeking stability, dignity, or just an easier tomorrow elsewhere.

Ashutosh Sharma

A march in Thiruvananthapuram in 2023 in protest against Israel’s genocide of Palestine.

India’s moment to lead the Global South on Palestine

India must choose justice over Western alliances in Gaza’s genocide and reclaim its moral compass.

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Often, entire families move to brick kiln sites from their native place looking for work.

Can India free its bonded labourers by 2030?

At an industrial tank manufacturing factory on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, on January 31. Several companies in the State do not adhere to government-mandated norms on hiring local people.

In Gujarat, big corporates flout local hiring norms with impunity

“In this world, the human—a person such as myself—is not at the centre,” writer Sumana Roy says. “I’m a minor figure there.”

We should not be bullied by ‘literary trends’: Sumana Roy

The Siliguri-born writer on growing up with a scarcity of books, and why writers must resist market-driven trends to stay true to their imagination.

This tigress was moved from Tipeshwar Wildlife Sanctuary in Maharashtra to Kawal Tiger Reserve in Telangana some years ago, a file photograph.

A reserve without a yes

Garhwali folk singer, Pawan Semwal.

How much dissent can a song afford?

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