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”.

ON October 6, the announcement of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine brought three scientists who had discovered the mechanism of immune system restraint to the attention of the world. Shimon Sakaguchi of Japan, along with Mary Brunkow and Fred Ramsdell of the United States, shared the award. Their findings identified a group of guardian cells that maintain peace within the body, preventing our immune system from attacking our own cells.

MADHYA PRADESH is in the news for many reasons these days. But these discussions are so tragic for the state that they have silenced the children’s laughter that once echoed in many homes. Now, there is mourning in those homes. There are the sighs and cries of family members. This situation has been created by commission (bribe) lust. At the time of writing, 26 innocent children have died, one after another.The question is: could these innocent lives have been saved? Could mothers' laps be prevented from becoming empty?

NEO-liberal capitalism has an immanent tendency towards stagnation, which arises because of the operation of two factors: the first is the growth in income inequality that it continuously spawns; since the poor consume the bulk of their incomes while the rich “save” (that is, do not consume) most  of it, consumption demand, and hence overall aggregate demand, tends to fall below the growth of producible output, resulting in a rise in unemployment and unutilized capacity that drives the economy down.This continuous tendency towards a rise in income inequality arises from the fact that, owing

THE Ekalavya episode in Mahabharata is widely known. But it is sought to be embedded in the narrative of valour of Pandavas and their shining tales of struggle for justice. Dronacharya’s extreme act of cruelty on Ekalavya’s incessant effort to accomplish mastery over martial prowess sticks out as a jarring note in the grand narrative of the timeless epic. The modern exponents of Hindutva, in their pernicious act of reconstructing the Indian past, remain busy in rebranding the grotesque caste driven social hierarchy as ‘mother of democracy’.