By Sunil Kumar*  The Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) was established in 1958, having previously operated as the Delhi Transport Undertaking (DTU). It was granted full corporate status in 1971, along with several forms of autonomy — including the ability to maintain a Board of Directors, purchase buses, hire staff, implement fare policies with government approval, and receive financial assistance. The state government can manage the corporation's finances and cover its losses. 

By A Representative   A new year-end review by the New Delhi-based research group Land Conflict Watch has revealed that land conflicts across India in 2025 have impacted a combined area larger than the state of Sikkim , stalled investments worth over double the central government’s annual agriculture budget, and affected nearly 3.6 million people.

By Jag Jivan*  A new study by a top consulting firm has found that India’s cleantech sector is entering a decisive growth phase, with strong policy backing, record capacity additions and surging investor interest, but facing mounting pressure on talent supply and rising compensation costs .

By Palla Trinadha Rao   A writ petition presently before the High Court of Andhra Pradesh has brought into focus an increasingly important question in the governance of tribal regions: can eco-tourism projects in Scheduled Areas be implemented without the consent of the Gram Sabha? The case concerns the establishment of a Community Based Eco-Tourism centre at Vanajangi village in Paderu Mandal of Alluri Sitarama Raju District, a region located within the Scheduled Areas of Andhra Pradesh. 

By A Representative    An Indian civil society coalition has strongly criticised the ongoing military confrontation involving the United States and Israel and called on the Indian government to abandon what it described as “disturbing silence” over the crisis. In a statement issued on March 6, the National Alliance of People’s Movements (NAPM) condemned what it termed an unlawful military assault on the Iran and urged the government of India to publicly support an immediate ceasefire and renewed diplomatic negotiations.

By Bhabani Shankar Nayak*  The so-called liberal henchmen of imperialism have begun to perpetuate the old binary in order to justify an unprovoked attack on Iran and the killing of its Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, along with other religious, civilian, and military leaders. These warmongering actions are being framed in the name of freedom, democracy, human rights, and women's rights, even as schools and hospitals are bombed, killing large numbers of schoolgirls and civilians. The unprecedented deaths and widespread destitution are part of an imperialist design to instil fear and force the surrender of people and their resources. Yet the people of Iran are resisting the combined onslaught of Israeli Zionists and American imperialists. There is no justification for the military actions of Israel and the United States against Iran, but liberal intellectuals are constructing a false binary — invoking the democratic rights and women's freedom of Iranians — to ...

By Bharat Dogra In the dusty lanes of Suveri village, nestled in the southern Rajasthan district of Udaipur, the past wasn't so long ago a story of quiet desperation. "Whenever we faced a family emergency, we had to borrow from private moneylenders," recalls Kamla, her gaze steady. "The interest rates were so high that it became impossible to escape the debt. Sometimes, the borrower even ended up losing their land." It was a cycle of dependency that trapped families for generations, a story whispered in households across the region.

By Ravi Ranjan*  In an age of literary noise—where novels compete for attention through sensationalism, where market forces dictate creative expression, and where the "roaring terror" of ideological posturing often drowns out authentic voices—the fiction of Vinod Kumar Shukla arrives like a quiet revolution. His is not the literature of grand gestures or political manifestos, but something far more radical: an "aesthetics of silence" that speaks volumes through what remains unsaid.

By Harsh Thakor*  Alexander Medvedkin (1900–1989) was a Soviet filmmaker whose career navigated the precarious and complex dichotomy between creative satire and state-mandated propaganda during the height of the power of Joseph Stalin. Known for his “Cine-Train,” a travelling film studio that carried cameras, editing facilities and projection equipment across the Soviet countryside, Medvedkin developed what Sergei Eisenstein once described as a “Bolshevik Chaplin” style. While his work was broadly aligned with the goals of the Soviet system, its honest and unsanitised portrayal of everyday life often brought it into disfavour with the Stalinist establishment. Medvedkin’s films explored the vibrancy and moral spirit of Marxist philosophy while probing the human dimensions generated within a socialist society. His work forged a synthesis between the contradictory impulses of artistic creativity and political stagnation. In essence, Medvedkin was a loyal communist, yet his...