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“A polymath is a person whose expertise spans a significant number of different subject areas. The term, derived from the ...
This blog is a continuation of my story "English proficiency for empowerment: Modi’s SCOPE vision contrasts Amit Shah’s ...
A global civil rights group, Civicus has taken strong exception to how critical commentaries during the “recent conflict” ...
While Union Home Minister Amit Shah may have asserted that soon a time would come when those speaking English in the country ...
The report specifies that compliance requirements include adherence to Renewable Purchase Obligations (RPOs), the Energy Conservation Act, 2001, tariff policies, environmental clearances, and grid ...
An action research report, “Invited Disaster: Khadi Floods in Surat City”, published by two civil rights groups, Paryavaran Suraksha Samiti and the People's Union for Civil Liberties, Surat, states ...
While I have known Jignesh Mevani, one of the dozen-odd Congress MLAs from Gujarat, ever since my Gandhinagar days—when he was a young activist aligned with well-known human rights lawyer Mukul ...
A global civil rights group, Civicus has taken strong exception to how critical commentaries during the “recent conflict” with Pakistan were censored in India, with journalists getting “targeted”. I ...
A follow-up to a similar survey carried out in 2004, the new survey — conducted in 2025 by Anandi (Area Networking and Development Initiatives or ASAA) — reveals that, even after two decades, total ...
Surely, it must be a personal loss for Modi and the BJP, but it is also a loss to those who do not belong to the party or its ideology—a person who was frank, soft-spoken, humble, had the capacity to ...
RP Gupta, a retired 1987-batch IAS officer from the Gujarat cadre, has found himself at the center of a growing controversy. During my tenure as the Times of India correspondent in Gandhinagar ...