Here's a teaser blurb for Wix CMS: India's population debate is loud, politically charged, and almost entirely missing its most important variable: women. Between calls to have more children and warnings to have fewer, reproductive policy has become performance — one that ignores maternal mortality, rampant anaemia, and the absence of genuine reproductive autonomy. The real question is not how many citizens India needs, but whether it is willing to invest in the survival and

The success of 53 Muslim candidates in the UPSC Civil Services Examination 2025 is an encouraging achievement that deserves recognition. Yet the numbers also reveal a larger structural gap. For a community that makes up nearly 15 percent of India’s population, representation in the country’s most powerful administrative institutions remains significantly lower.

Today the world observes the International Day to Combat Islamophobia, but the day passes with little public attention. Recognised by the United Nations after the Christchurch mosque shootings, the observance reflects a growing global debate on prejudice, politics and the challenge of confronting Islamophobia.

Iran’s endurance under decades of sanctions and isolation shows how societies can navigate prolonged adversity through patience, institutional strength and long term thinking. While the country has its own internal debates and challenges, its resilience offers a moment of reflection. For Indian Muslims, the lesson lies not in imitation but in cultivating confidence, strong institutions and economic empowerment while remaining mindful and steady in difficult times.

From prison under the Shah to the helm of the Islamic Republic, Ali Khamenei cast himself as a steadfast defender of Iran’s sovereignty, a leader who believed that dignity was preserved through resistance and resolve.

When a Vice-Chancellor questions Dalit autonomy or merit, it reflects more than a stray remark. It signals a deeper anxiety within savarna structures about independent Dalit political agency. As Dalit assertion becomes structural and irreversible, discomfort emerges not from a crisis of standards, but from the democratisation of power itself.

Galgotias is not the disease; it is a symptom. The deeper crisis lies in the steady commercialisation of private higher education, where universities increasingly compete for enrolment like corporations chasing market share. When growth targets eclipse academic purpose, students risk becoming customers and degrees risk becoming commodities. The problem, then, is not one campus — it is the logic that now governs too many of them.

I was suspended from Jamia for leading a students’ protest and told that people from middle-class backgrounds like mine had no right to protest. A letter was sent to my parents branding me “anti-academic”. Today, the same man lectures Muslims on democracy, while those who invite him seem unaware of what transpired at Jamia before 2014. Memory, however, does not forget.

In a political landscape shaped by ambiguity and post-2019 disillusionment, Agha Ruhullah Mehdi has emerged as a distinctive voice in Jammu and Kashmir. This essay examines how his consistent reliance on constitutional argument, willingness to dissent from his own party, and engagement with questions of memory, accountability, and civil liberties have repositioned him within the region’s political discourse.

The CAA did not create Muslim anger; it triggered it. What followed was not a single-issue protest but the release of decades of accumulated injustice, as Muslims took to the streets not to defend abstractions, but to assert their right to exist as equal citizens.

AIMIM’s gains in Seemanchal are not a setback for secularism but a reminder of its core promise: equal participation. The party’s rise reflects a marginalised community reclaiming political space after years of neglect. It exposes the complacency of secular parties that took Muslim support for granted. Rather than fragmenting secular politics, AIMIM pushes it to be more inclusive, accountable, and grounded in real representation.

The Poshan Tracker app was introduced to improve nutrition service delivery, but for Anganwadi workers it has meant added digital burdens, surveillance, and loss of autonomy. Instead of supporting their essential care work, the app reduces them to data clerks, highlighting how techno-centric governance can deepen exclusion rather than empower frontline workers or beneficiaries.

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