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01/12/2025

Rubble where homes stood. Temples cracked open. Lanes sealed under dust and police barricades.

In the Prime Minister's own constituency, Varanasi’s oldest neighborhoods are being carved up in the name of “corridor development,” while the city’s soul lies in pieces.

Is this a restoration? Or is it erasure? Banarasis now watch their centuries-old soul disappear brick by brick, under dust, bulldozers, and silence.

Read the latest piece of our Ear to the Ground series via the link below!

Ear to the Ground is a special feature by The AIDEM that reports on offbeat field reports on people’s lives and livelihood issues. To read more stories, click here. In Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s own constituency, bulldozers have demolished not just buildings, but also Varanasi’s soul. From...

01/12/2025

ജമ്മുവിലെ അധികാരികൾ ഒരു പത്രപ്രവർത്തകനെ നിശബ്ദനാക്കാൻ ബുൾഡോസറുകൾ ഉപയോഗിച്ചപ്പോൾ, പൗരന്മാർ അനുകമ്പയോടെയാണ് പ്രതികരിച്ചത്. അധികാര ദുർവിനിയോഗത്തിന്റെ അപകടങ്ങൾ, രാജ്ഭവനുകൾക്ക് പിന്നിലെ രാഷ്ട്രീയ പദ്ധതികൾ, സംസ്ഥാനങ്ങളിലുടനീളം വികസിച്ചുകൊണ്ടിരിക്കുന്ന ഭരണഘടനാപരമായ തകർച്ച എന്നിവ ഈ വിശകലനം പരിശോധിക്കുന്നു.

എം കെ നാരായണമൂർത്തിയുടെ "കാലിഡോസ്കോപ്പ്" പരമ്പരയിലെ ഏറ്റവും പുതിയ ലേഖനം വായിക്കുക.

ലിങ്ക് കമൻറ് ബോക്സിൽ നൽകിയിട്ടുണ്ട്.

01/12/2025

India’s GDP may be above a trendline — but so are unemployment, hunger, and inequality. K. Sahadevan dissects why Jason Furman’s claim of “Covid recovery” is analytically shallow and structurally misleading.

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On 21 November 2025, Jason Furman, a prominent Harvard economist and former Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Obama, posted a chart on X (formerly Twitter) accompanied by the striking assertion: “India is the only major economy to have overcome the Covid-era collapse.” Th...

01/12/2025

From ancient sciences to English education, India’s knowledge systems have grown through exchange—not isolation. Writer and socio-political observer Ram Puniyani dwells on the debate on colonial education and explores how the debate is impacting contemporary Indian society.

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While delivering the Ramnath Goenka Lecture, Prime Minister Narendra Modi stated that India should take a ten-year pledge to root out the “colonial mindset.” In ten years, he noted, it will be two centuries since Lord Macaulay introduced the English-based pattern of education. According to Mr. M...

29/11/2025

Journalist KA Beena revisits a grassroots case study on Dalit lives she recorded from the hinterlands of Gujarat. This is part of a series of grassroots case studies that won Beena the prestigious Statesman award for Rural Reporting. The AIDEM presents this case study in two parts.

This is part 2 where a Dalit women Anita discusses her experience of facing casteism and discusses the lack of unity among the community she belongs to.

Read Part 2, here: https://theaidem.com/samras-panchayat-in-gujarat-part-2-that-girl-called-anita/

28/11/2025

इस एनालिसिस में, गौरव तिवारी यह जांचते हैं कि कैसे हाई-बजट कैंपेन मशीनरी ने असली पॉलिटिकल एंगेजमेंट की जगह ले ली है, जिससे पार्टियां ग्रासरूट वर्कर्स के बजाय कंसल्टेंट्स, इवेंट मैनेजर्स और डिजिटल टीमों पर डिपेंडेंट हो गई हैं।

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“मैं अपना समय क्यों बर्बाद करूँ जब मेरी कोई अहमियत ही नहीं है? रैली में लोगों को घंटों इंतज़ार कराया गया और तेजस्वी ...

27/11/2025

In this episode of GenderED, Dr Varsha Pillai speaks to Uthara Narayanan, Chief Changemaker of Buzz Woman as she shares her journey as a woman leader enabling financial freedom for women. Uthara Narayanan underscores the focus on reimagining systems to serve those left behind and highlights what it really takes to create meaningful impact in under-served communities.

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In this episode of GenderED, Dr Varsha Pillai speaks to Uthara Narayanan, Chief Changemaker of Buzz Woman as she shares her journey as a woman leader enablin...

27/11/2025

The spectacle in Ayodhya raises an uncomfortable question: Does today’s political Ram resemble the compassionate Ram of Tulsidas?

Raghvendra Dubey examines the gap between devotional theology and political symbolism.

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The hoisting of the saffron Dharma Dhwaj on the soaring shikhar of Ayodhya’s Ram Mandir by Prime Minister Narendra Modi—amid sacred chants and aarti—was accompanied by unmistakable sectarian rhetoric. Modi himself set the tone, describing the ceremony as the rectification of “historical inju...

26/11/2025

As India celebrates Constitution Day today, Justice Markandey Katju asks whether there is anything left to celebrate when constitutional promises lie in ruins. He regards the celebration as "a mere pantomime, burlesque, shenanigan, and a farce."

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I recently received an invitation from Justice Surya Kant, the incoming Chief Justice of India, to attend the Constitution Day function to be held on 26th November 2025 in the Auditorium of the Administrative Buildings Complex of the Supreme Court of India. The President of India, Draupadi Murmu, wi...

26/11/2025

From rattling balls to borrowed grounds, India’s blind cricketers train in conditions most elite athletes will never even imagine. Yet they return home with trophies, titles, and a level of consistency unmatched in Indian sport. This World Cup win cannot fade into silence — it must mark a national turning point.

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“The sound of the rattling plastic ball hitting Khula Sharir’s bat was the sound of a world championship being won, yet the silence of India’s media was deafening.”   On 23 November 2025, in Colombo, the Indian women’s blind cricket team did something no other squad had done before them. ...

26/11/2025

A cosmic drifter slips into our skies, and suddenly everyone’s arguing: scientists, doomsday prophets, even the podcast philosophers.

Devesh Dubey dives into the frenzy around 3I/ATLAS and asks the real question:

When the universe throws us a mystery, do we study it… or project our wildest theories onto it?

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What do we do when the universe sends us a message we can barely read, and may never see again? When a streak of ancient light cuts through our skies, demanding attention, suspicion, and awe in equal measure? As scientists scramble, theories collide: is this a relic of a forgotten star system, or a....