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...
Retired JNU economics professor Arun Kumar argues that the CPI(M)'s apparent ideological shift in Kerala is not merely an electoral tactic but the outcome of decades of global and national political changes. In this interview with Abhish K. Bose, he...
In the first two parts of this conversation, Sudhir Shetty established the Global Crisis Framework's diagnostic foundations — GIC as a living superorganism, the thermodynamic evidence for civilisational simplification, the Three Scenarios available to humanity, and the practical tools for...
In the second part of this interview, Sudhir Shetty, founder of the independent research initiative Global Crisis Response (GCR), examines the scientific foundations of the Global Crisis Framework (GCF). He explains why he believes humanity has entered a civilisational predicament...
