By A Representative   A new wave of digital humanities (DH) work in India is shifting the focus away from university classrooms and English-language scholarship, instead prioritizing multilingual, community-driven archives that amplify subaltern voices . According to a review published in the Journal of Asian Studies , projects such as the People’s Archive of Rural India (PARI), the Oral History Narmada archive , and the Bhasha Research and Publication Centre are redefining how the country remembers its past — often without government funding or institutional support.

By A Representative   Shankar Sharma, Power & Climate Policy Analyst, has urged India’s top policymakers to reconsider the financial and ecological implications of the country’s energy transition strategy in light of recent global developments. In a letter dated April 10, 2026, addressed to the Union Ministers of Finance, Power, New & Renewable Energy, Environment, Forest & Climate Change, and the Vice Chair of NITI Aayog, with a copy to the Prime Minister, Sharma highlighted concerns over India’s ambitious plans for coal gasification and the Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR).

By Bhabani Shankar Nayak*  Family, as a social, economic, cultural, and religious institution, is the first site of indoctrination. From birth, children absorb values and ideas—some necessary, some reactionary, some progressive—depending on the household. This process of domestication, disguised as socialisation, often limits children’s hands, minds, and interactions. It creates a compliant culture in which individuals operate within boundaries drawn by older generations in the name of tradition. Before children reach the age of conscious choice, they are already embedded in value systems not of their making.

By Ravi Ranjan*  Badri Narayan occupies a unique position in contemporary Indian letters—a social scientist whose precision meets the quiet intensity of a poet. Having earned the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2022 for Tumdi Ke Sabda, Narayan has consistently legitimised folk traditions as rigorous academic data. In his poignant poem Machhalī (Fish), the drying of a village pond in Manikpur becomes far more than an ecological event—it unfolds as an elegy for a vanishing world where memory, nature, and human destiny intertwine.

By Carmen Navas Reyes   From the raids by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at U.S. airports to the approval of the controversial Return Regulation in the European Union, the world is witnessing an ‘ ICE-ization ‘ of migration policies. This ‘ICE-ization’ is characterized by the externalization of borders, prolonged detention, and the criminalization of undocumented individuals, which is generating an unprecedented human rights crisis that has already resulted in fatalities and complaints filed with international bodies.

By Harsh Thakor*  The history of revolution is incomplete without the women who transformed its very foundations. Across continents and centuries, figures like Isabel Rielo Rodríguez, Nathalie Le Mel, and Elisabeth Dmitrieff embodied the fusion of class struggle and feminist emancipation, proving that no revolution can succeed without dismantling patriarchy. Their journeys resonate deeply with the legacy of Anuradha Ghandy, whose life and work in India carried forward the same spirit of militant, proletarian feminism. Isabel Rielo Rodríguez: Feminism of the Trenches On April 9, 1989, Isabel Rielo Rodríguez passed away, symbolizing the end of a heroic generation that had stormed the Moncada Barracks and built a socialist alternative just ninety miles from imperialism’s core. As commander of the Mariana Grajales Women’s Platoon—the only all-women combat unit in Fidel Castro’s Rebel Army—Rielo shattered the myth of female frailty. At the Battle of Cerro Pelado in 1958, her platoon wit...

By Vidya Bhushan Rawat*  The peace initiative launched by Pope Leo XIV deserves wholehearted global support. At a time when the United States–led Western alliance appears captive to corporate interests that thrive on war, the Pope’s voice stands out as a moral compass. These interests, driven by profit rather than people, continue to push humanity toward catastrophe.

By Syed Ali Mujtaba*  When US President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that he would 'erase an entire civilization' if Iran did not agree to his terms, he did more than issue a threat — he unwittingly reopened one of the most contested frameworks in modern international relations: the Clash of Civilizations thesis .

By Bhabani Shankar Nayak*  On 15 December 2025, after a hectic day of academic exchanges and talks in the morning, followed by sightseeing in the afternoon, my body was exhausted, and it was difficult to keep my eyes open. My mind, however, was immersed in the cultural geography of Xi’an and the history of Shaanxi—the birthplace of Chinese civilisation.