In India, the assault is ideological and motivated by religious zealotry. Since the current political regime assumed power, India’s ranking on the Academic Freedom Index, developed by the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Institute, has sharply declined. In its 2024 update, the report categorises India among countries where academic freedom is deemed ‘completely restricted’. The report suggested that ‘it is primarily anti-pluralist parties in the government that contribute to the decline in academic freedom’.
While the incumbent regime primarily targets social sciences and humanities to reduce them to inconsequential subjects, research in the sciences and medicine could not escape State scrutiny. They have been particularly effective in peddling pseudoscience and bringing its status on par with evidence-based modern science. They have also been successful in branding Hindu scriptural epistemology as ‘Indian Knowledge System’, and making it a part of the educational syllabus, legitimising Hindu metaphysics and mythology as science and history. At the same time, criticism from educators regarding the National Council of Educational Research and Training’s (NCERT) decision to remove Charles Darwin’s theory of biological evolution from the 10th-grade science textbook was dismissed, with the move being justified as part of a ‘curriculum rationalisation exercise.’
Why would the government advance bovine dung and urine as a panacea for ailments, including cancer? Why would ministries broadcast the misguided views of self-styled experts as scientific fact and confuse the public? The Ministry of AYUSH has been vigorously campaigning for research on cow products, which it believes have medicinal properties. Aside from some antiquated beliefs, these claims had nothing else by way of support, especially no peer-reviewed research or clinical tests. Researchers from major institutes recently gathered at a temple in Madhya Pradesh with their equipment to determine the efficacy of fire rituals in bringing rain. This tells a lot about the abandonment of scientific rationality in contemporary India to suit the whims of the establishment. Such instances reflect the diminishing quality of scientific research in India and draw our attention to how the state instrumentalises knowledge to serve political ends.
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Russia’s Balancing Act: Navigating the Indo-Pak Rift Post-Pahalgam https://www.orfonline.org/expert-speak/russia-s-balancing-act-navigating-the-indo-pak-rift-post-pahalgam the incident also signals a slight shift in Moscow’s approach to the Indo-Pak calculus, suggesting a marked neutrality in Russia’s diplomatic stance between New Delhi and Islamabad. This shift appears to be influenced by the growing Russia-West contestation as well as regional geopolitical realignments, which have elevated Pakistan’s importance in Russia’s strategic outlook..
Moscow’s careful and balanced navigation of India-Pakistan tensions is not new. In 2019, Russia struck a similar balance following the terrorist attacks in Pulwama. Much like after the Pahalgam attack, Russia was deliberately cautious in its choice of words.. Moscow has also prioritised its partnership with Islamabad in the context of developments in Afghanistan, operating on the assumption that Pakistan wields considerable influence over Afghan affairs.
FURIOUS India STRIKES BACK against Trump INSULTS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKej9hVh3PU MeidasTouch there's a few areas where India is pissed. Donald Trump continues to take credit for the ceasefire between India and Pakistan He says it over and over again Donald Trump says the reason the ceasefire happened was because Donald Trump dangled trade in front of India .
Another major issue is this crypto deal that Donald Trump's family did with Pakistan . They did a crypto deal with the Pakistan government about 6 days after the terrorist attacks in Kashmir.
Donald Trump continues to lie about the status of trade discussions and negotiations with India. And the Trump regime makes it sound like India's begging for a deal and India is so desperate to do this deal.
Donald Trump threatened Apple and he's been threatening them over and over again and Tim Cook saying do not build factories in India
Donald Trump's attack on American universities. there arehundreds of students uh foreign students from India with visas to study at Harvard University who are now psychologically tortured and feeling
horrible ..
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‘Indian diplomacy failed to convince world of Pakistan's sponsorship of terrorism’: Pawan K Varma May 23, 2025 ‘The fact that the international community, by and large, failed to acknowledge India as a victim of state-sponsored terrorism through Pakistan, shows that Indian diplomacy has not been successful in the recent India-Pakistan conflict,’ says former diplomat & Rajya Sabha MP, Pawan K Varma. He further asserts that the government needs to be more transparent about how the ceasefire with Pakistan was reached. “However, the UPA's policy of restraint was a complete failure, and riskier than the NDA policy of strategic retaliation.”
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https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/may/20/radical-translation-of-heart-lamp-by-banu-mushtaq-wins-international-booker-prize Ambika Mod read from ‘Heart Lamp’ | The Booker Prize https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2XZ8R2U_k4
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Absurd Case Against Ali Khan Mahmudabad & Perils Of Chilling Effect https://www.livelaw.in/articles/absurd-case-against-ali-khan-mahmudabad-perils-of-chilling-effect-292967 Kalpana Kannabiran 22 May 2025 Televised interviews with the complainant-chairperson sadly exposed a total lack of comprehension on her part, of the post – rendering her complaint malicious and false. Despite this, the Hon'ble Supreme Court, while granting interim bail has directed the constitution of a Special Investigation Team by the Director General of Police, Haryana, consisting of senior police officers to determine the 'meaning of the words' in the post; ordered surrender of his passport; and barred him from posting content on social media. While it is a relief to have him released from custody, the wide-ranging powers placed in the very same police establishment that arrested him is a cause for concern.
JD: I wonder what kind of petition can individual or an organisation like pucl file to tell the supreme court that it is failing in its duty to protect fundamental right if it is not able to protect us from such 'chilling effects' on our fundamental rights.
SS: This subject judgement is at least partly comparable with Supreme Court judgement on June 24 2022 ordering probe against Teesta Setalvad charging her with falsifying evidence in the Zakia Jafri case just out of the blue!
Here also the Court, virtually suo moto, visions "dog whistle" and orders constitution of an SIT to conduct an open-ended probe. This is too ominous.
Calls for a broad-based national campaign.
Rethinking Learning Spaces https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ca7usGiXzD0 | Pranith Simha | TEDxDantewada Reimagining learning spaces and empowering communities is key to transforming public education. Alternative approaches can create inclusive, democratic learning for tribal children. Pranith Simha is the Founder & Executive Director of Bachpan Banao, a grassroots organization revitalizing public education in Dantewada, Chhattisgarh. A dropout from IISER Pune, he found his calling in education through Disha, a student initiative for slum children. Since 2012, he has led transformative programs like Padhe Dantewada-Likhe Dantewada and Sapno Ki Shala, an alternative school promoting democratic learning. His latest work focuses on youth-led children’s libraries that foster creativity and safety.
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