This article is the first in Panthi's serial publication of Mirage Economy, a book by T. Ramakrishnan (Ramki), originally published on the author's blog. We are reproducing the series with permission to make these ideas accessible to a wider audience....
S. Santhosh, cultural theorist and faculty member at Ambedkar University Delhi, offers a striking philosophical reading of the recent Jantar Mantar protest. Moving beyond the immediate issues of paper leaks and recruitment delays, he argues that the movement transformed how...
Can Hindutva still be understood primarily through the framework of European fascism, or has it evolved into something different? In this provocative essay, political thinker K. Vinod Chandran argues that contemporary Hindutva has undergone a "Zionist" transformation, reshaping India's politics,...
What remains after the slogans fade and the crowds disperse? Victory, disappointment, hope, caution or all of them at once? The Jantar Mantar movement has generated one of the most significant public conversations in recent years. In this special feature,...
History teaches us a painful lesson. Democracies are not defeated only by dictators. They are weakened whenever citizens begin believing that one extraordinary individual can carry the hopes of millions. Every movement that forgets this lesson risks losing its soul....
Kerala is celebrated for its high human development, social justice and collective resilience. Yet beneath this progressive image lies a troubling pattern of alleged institutional corruption, political patronage and intimidation. Through interviews with victims, whistle-blowers and leading scholars, this investigation...
In the previous five parts of this conversation, Sudhir Shetty has built an ambitious case — for the Global Crisis as a civilisational predicament rather than a collection of problems, for thermodynamic limits as the binding constraint on industrial civilisation,...
In the previous four parts of this conversation, Sudhir Shetty established GCF's diagnostic foundations, thermodynamic evidence, political economy critique, and operational strategy. In this fifth part, he turns to the most personal dimensions of the framework: how young people can...
After examining the roots of the global civilisational crisis and the need for systemic transformation in the previous parts, Sudhir Shetty now turns to the practical question: who can lead the transition and through what strategy. He introduces the Islands...
Can democracy itself be measured? In this thought-provoking research proposal, Dr. Jos Chathukulam and Dr. A. M. Jose argue that Kerala needs a periodic Citizen's White Paper on Democratic Health and propose a Kerala Democratic Health Index (KDHI) to assess...
