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Congress published one of its most detailed manifestos in 2024. We examine five major promises against their implementation record where they have governed, and against independent economic analysis.
Indian intellectual life in the 19th and early 20th centuries was enormously varied — reformist, conservative, revivalist, rationalist, syncretic. Reducing it to a prologue to Nehruvian secularism or RSS nationalism misrepresents a richer reality.
A data-driven examination of Left Wing Extremism's geographical spread, decline and current status — using MHA district classifications, NCRB violence data and security force deployment records.
Indian temple architecture is not merely decorative or devotional. It is a system of spatial philosophy that encodes specific cosmological, mathematical and theological positions in structural form. An examination of the evidence.
The BJP has repeatedly cited employment statistics as evidence of economic success. We examine the claims against CMIE, PLFS and RBI data. What do the numbers actually show?
An analysis of how Maoist and Naxal ideological vocabulary entered Indian universities, media commentary, NGO discourse and social media — and how to distinguish genuine academic inquiry from ideological recruitment.
A fact-check of the widely circulated claim that 40,000 tribals have been killed in counter-Naxal operations. What do NCRB data, court records and parliamentary responses actually show?
India's civilisational heritage — Sanskrit, temple traditions, classical philosophy, festival culture — is not merely historical decoration. It is a functioning intellectual and social system that deserves serious engagement, not defensive apology.