By Bharat Dogra   The Kherwara block in Udaipur district has emerged as a significant center for pasture regeneration initiatives. Jaan Mohammad has been closely involved in several important efforts in this area. Speaking about his experience of working on around 75 hectares of land in Valibol village, he recalls that in some areas, the regenerated greenery became so dense that it was difficult to walk through the trees.

By Ravi Ranjan*  ​“It is only due to great merit accumulated from past lives that a poet occasionally finds such a knowledgeable critic who truly understands the labor involved in poetic composition—who carefully analyzes the methods of word arrangement, delights in unique aphorisms and insights, savours the dense nectar of poetic rasa, and uncovers the hidden purport of the work.” — Rājaśekhara, “Kāvyamīmāṃsā”

By A Representative   A senior Indian ecologist and long-time United Nations environmental negotiator, Dr. S. Faizi of Thiruvananthapuram, has written to António Guterres, urging the United Nations to launch a high-level investigation into alleged links between certain current and former UN officials and the late American financier Jeffrey Epstein, following disclosures of email communications by the U.S. Department of Justice.

By Bhabani Shankar Nayak*  India's historical foreign policy maintained a notable duality: offering sanctuary to persecuted Jewish communities dating back centuries, while simultaneously supporting Palestinian self-determination as an expression of its broader anti-colonial foreign policy commitments. The gradual shift in Indian foreign policy under Hindutva-aligned governance — moving toward a strategic partnership with Israel while reducing substantive engagement with the Palestinian cause — raises legitimate questions about ideological motivation and geopolitical consequence.

By Vijay Prashad, Ubai al-Aboudi   In January 2026, the Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem published a grim update to its earlier work, titled Living Hell: The Israeli Prison System as a Network of Torture Camps. This report documents the horrific conditions faced by Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails and detention facilities, revealing structural brutality that must be understood not as isolated injustice but as part of a broader system of violence and exclusion directed against the Palestinian people.

By Harsh Thakor*  Sergei Vasilyevich Gerasimov (September 14, 1885 – April 20, 1964) was a Soviet artist, professor, academician, and teacher. His work was posthumously awarded the Lenin Prize, the highest artistic honour of the USSR. His paintings traced the development of socialist realism in the visual arts while retaining qualities drawn from impressionism. Gerasimov reconciled a lyrical approach to nature with the demands of Soviet socialist ideology.

By Rosamma Thomas  Thousands of workers at the Indian Oil Corporation refinery in Panipat, Haryana, went on strike beginning February 23, 2026. They faced a police lathi charge, and the Central Industrial Security Force fired into the air to control the crowd.

By Venkatesh Nayak*  Our elected representatives seek information on a wide variety of topics from the Union Government when Parliament is in session. Ministers respond verbally on the floor of the House to only a handful of them. These are called Starred Questions. In response to the Unstarred Questions, which run into thousands, the Government only tables written replies without responding to them verbally. The text of the MPs' queries and the concerned ministry/department's replies are uploaded on the respective House websites. 

By Ram Puniyani  Choosing one’s religion is both a social and a legal right guaranteed by the Indian Constitution. Yet organisations that pursue politics in the name of religion often refuse to accept this fundamental principle. Dr. Mohan Bhagwat, the Sarsanghachalak of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), has repeatedly asserted that all people living in this country are Hindus. At the same time, he has expressed concern that the Hindu population is declining due to conversions to Islam and Christianity, even suggesting that Hindu couples should have three children to address this “worrying” trend.