A recent Delhi high court order – giving a green light to the gatekeeping of knowledge by global commercial publishers and ordering the shut down of Sci-Hub and LibGen as “rogue websites” or “shadow libraries” – raises serious questions about India’s true commitment to scientific temper. From Shadow Libraries to Citizen Science: Defending the Constitutional Duty of Inquiry - The Wire 

by Najad P. and Ablaz Mohammed Schemnad

20/09/2025

Deteriorating Financial Situation of the People https://www.counterview.net/2025/09/supreme-court-outsourcing-jobs-in.html Sept 19 2025   The court emphasized that "as a constitutional employer, the State must live up to higher standards and organize its permanent workforce on a sanctioned structure, budget for legitimate appointments, and implement judicial directives with complete sincerity. Delay in fulfilling these obligations is not mere negligence, but a deliberate pattern of denial that destroys the livelihood and dignity of these employees."  Today, it is imperative that the problems of contract workers are not seen merely from the perspective of "temporary employment" but that a permanent solution is found by considering them the backbone of the system. 

II. Deteriorating Financial Situation of the People
September 19, 2025 https://rupeindia.wordpress.com/2025/09/19/ii-deteriorating-financial-situation-of-the-people/  the RBI does bear direct responsibility for the rapid growth of predatory microfinance from 2022. To understand why we term microfinance ‘predatory’, we need only recall the microfinance crisis of 2009-10, which resulted in mass distress, a number of suicides, and a protest movement in Andhra Pradesh. In its wake, the RBI was forced to place a number of restrictions on microfinance institutions (MFIs) to prevent the abuses which had led to the crisis.

The more socially oppressed sections are more dependent on informal sector loans, and this dependence has been increasing. The share of debt of Dalit households from commercial banks fell sharply during the period of post-1991 ‘liberalisation’; “The vacuum thus created was filled in by professional moneylenders. While professional moneylenders did emerge in 2002 as an important source of credit for other rural households as well, their hold over Dalit households was much stronger. The expansion of informal debt meant an increased and onerous interest burden on rural Dalit households