This year, Jawan and The Kerala Story both won National Awards. The irony was impossible to miss. One critiqued the system, the other endorsed its narratives. The dichotomy says more about India’s cultural schizophrenia than any film review ever could.
New CPI series will take 2024 as base year, will provide more accurate measure of inflation, spending on digital services. Expected to enhance representation and reliability, says Saurabh Garg.
The agreement, signed after meeting between Rajnath and US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on sidelines of ADMM-Plus in Kuala Lumpur, aims to deepen bilateral ties in the critical sector.
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.
I was eight years old in Calcutta when a family friend who supplied to government departments all over the country told my father that Kashmir was the most venal state he had to deal with. A similar situation obtains in the north east. Perhaps, where the Indian state feels it is less than entirely welcome, it allows local elites to milk the system, creating a class that has a stake in preserving the status quo.
I was eight years old in Calcutta when a family friend who supplied to government departments all over the country told my father that Kashmir was the most venal state he had to deal with. A similar situation obtains in the north east. Perhaps, where the Indian state feels it is less than entirely welcome, it allows local elites to milk the system, creating a class that has a stake in preserving the status quo.