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Need for a rural workers union, said Prakash Karat at first P Sundarayya Memorial Lecture

P Sundarayya, a pioneer of the peasant movement in India, had zeroed in on three main classes in the Indian countryside: landlords, agricultural workers, and a differentiated peasantry.

Between the brothel and Brindavan—Bengal art shows twin faces of Hindu widows after sati ban

Many Hindu women took up sex work to survive. And the resulting Sundari stereotype is one that you won't find in history books.

Delhi has a new think-tank for Narendra Modi Studies. Ex-AMU faculty, former critic is head

Jasim Mohammad, a bitter critic of Modi earlier, wants to establish a centre in every district of India. Paper submissions from JNU scholars are flooding his inbox.

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New insolvency frameworks to shorter timelines, how 2025 amendment bill proposes to transform IBC

New bill aims to fix key issues with IBC 2016, including delays & patchy implementation, and protect creditors, with window for genuine promoters to retain control of their companies.

First-of-its kind tri-services conference Ran Samvad to take place in Army War College next week

Billed as the military’s own version of Raisina Dialogue, the event will spotlight on tech-driven warfighting, lessons from Operation Sindoor and release of three new doctrines.

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?