By Sandeep Pandey*   Shock is being expressed at Galgotias University being found presenting a Chinese-made robotic dog and a South Korean-made soccer-playing drone as its own creations at the recently held India AI Impact Summit 2026, a global event in New Delhi. Earlier, a UGC-listed journal had published a paper from the university titled “Corona Virus Killed by Sound Vibrations Produced by Thali or Ghanti: A Potential Hypothesis,” which became the subject of widespread ridicule. Following the robotic dog controversy coming to light, the university has withdrawn the paper. These incidents are symptoms of deeper problems afflicting the Indian education system in general. Galgotias merely bit off more than it could chew.

By A Representative   A group of 90 retired civil servants under the banner of the Constitutional Conduct Group (CCG) has written to Mritunjay Kumar Narayan, Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India, raising concerns over the timing, methodology and transparency of the upcoming 2027 Census.

By A Representative   A public commemoration marking six years since the February 2020 violence in North East Delhi was held at the Press Club of India on Sunday, bringing together survivors, jurists, political leaders, journalists and civil society members to reflect on questions of justice and accountability that remain unresolved. The event, titled “Lest We Forget: Remembering the February 2020 Delhi Communal Carnage,” was convened by the Constitutional Conduct Group and Karwan-e-Mohabbat. Organisers described the gathering as an act of collective remembrance and a call for renewed democratic vigilance.

By A Representative  As India celebrates the success of the AI Impact Summit 2026, a prominent policy voice is sounding the alarm over what he calls a dangerous gap in the national conversation: the enormous water and energy burden that artificial intelligence infrastructure will place on an already resource-stressed nation.

By Jag Jivan   Across the West, immigration has increasingly been framed as a cultural threat or a political liability, a stance most visibly associated with Donald Trump but echoed in varying degrees across Europe and other advanced economies. What this debate often ignores is a hard demographic and economic reality: without sustained immigration, much of the Western world faces a shrinking workforce, rising dependency ratios, and long-term stagnation.

By Vidya Bhushan Rawat*  Cuba currently faces the greatest challenge to its sovereignty and independence in decades. The brutal and repressive economic blockade, which violates all international norms and practices, is taking a heavy toll on the tiny island nation. While Donald Trump and his administration seek to strangle Cuba for its independent foreign policy, the rest of the world is expressing its solidarity. 

By Bhabani Shankar Nayak*  China is frequently described as an authoritarian state governed by the Communist Party of China (CPC). Such characterisations are advanced by various media outlets, think tanks, intellectuals, and affiliated institutions. These assessments draw, in part, on frameworks promoted by American political establishments, including the U.S. government and its agencies. For example, the unclassified document titled "The Elements of the China Challenge," published by the Policy Planning Staff in the Office of the U.S. Secretary of State, has been criticised by some scholars as presenting a one-sided account of China's political system. The narratives in this document provide a broader framework for discourse on China that is adopted and amplified by media organisations worldwide. Such narratives, critics argue, risk obscuring the complexity of China's development model and its relationship to prevailing global economic arrangements.

By Bharat Dogra   Big farms have been cornering a big share of US farmland while many middle level farms are losing out and small and young farmers face increasing difficulties, even as farm workers who make the whole system function remain dangerously exposed and historically marginalized communities continue to lose ground they once held. Sometimes public attention is focused on the incredibly huge land and farmland ownership of a few extremely rich persons or families. If only farmland is to be examined, then Bill Gates is often considered to be the biggest landowner with about 250,000 acres of farmland spread across about 17 states. There are several others with over 100,000 acres of farmland. However if one also includes those with timber interests or ranches, then landowners of over a million acres are also possible in the USA, with the Emmerson family owning about 2.4 million acres, John Malone about 2.2 million acres and Ted Turner about 2 million acres. However...

By Ravi Ranjan*  ​Alok Dhanwa stands as one of the most significant and distinctive voices in contemporary Hindi poetry, bridging the personal and the political with rare emotional depth and intellectual clarity. His work transforms everyday images—kites soaring at dawn, the slow sinking of a red sun, and twilight stretching into long godhūli —into profound meditations on memory, alienation, civilizational decline, and the stubborn human will to resist erasure.