The Ministry of Power, Government of India published Draft Electricity (Amendment) Bill-2025 on October 9. Various central government departments and state governments have been asked to send their comments to the ministry within 30 days. When one examines this Bill, along with the justifications provided by the Centre in a 57-page document, the danger lurking for the country, the people, and the power sector becomes clear.

The announcement of the latest ceasefire in Gaza in early October 2025 was a rare moment of relief for the lakhs of Palestinians besieged for nearly two years, enduring daily bombardments, hunger and displacement. It offered some respite, some stoppage to the relentless killing, some hope of aid trucks entering into Gaza and the wounded receiving treatment. But that pause has proved fragile. Israeli forces have, true to their wont, carried out strikes and incursions post the deal. Humanitarian aid remains woefully restricted.

THE core principle of Rabindranath Tagore's "We Are All Kings in this Kingdom" (Amra sabai Raja amader ei Rajar rajotwe) that each person is a sovereign ruler in a true democracy is finding contemporary expression in the United States. While the U.S. government is imposing its imperialist aggression from Gaza to Venezuela, its citizens have taken to the streets in a renewed wave of protest against the Trump administration.

Within months of Narendra Modi forming the Union government in 2014, then Education Minister Smriti Irani was reportedly holding closed door meetings with leaders of several shadowy RSS affiliated organisations. A report in the Indian Express on November 23, 2014, revealed that six such meetings had been held in six months since the Modi government took over.  The same report quoted an unnamed participant in these meetings saying that RSS sah sar-karyavah, Suresh Soni said that during NDA I (the Vajpayee Government of 1999-2004), there was little work done but “lot of propaganda”.

Our visit to the province of Hubei province of China was very rewarding. The world’s largest hydroelectric project, the Three Gorges Dam, has been built on the Yangtze River in the Hubei province. Its primary goals are to prevent the floods that regularly trouble riverside communities, to generate electricity on a massive scale, and to facilitate the passage of large ships along the river, apart from other benefits. The astonishing sight of massive cargo vessels and passenger ships crossing the dam is a major attraction, drawing tourists from all corners of the globe.