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US Round Up - The Great American Heist: How Corporate America Got Richer While the Workers Who Built It Got Poor

## *A Reckoning With the K-Shaped Republic* --- Well, let me go back to my time in US after writing a number of articles on home nation in the past two months. I returned from US after four years empty handed. If not for last minute tax refund which came as a savior, I am left with nothing. In fact, I suspended some of the payments on loans and came back without repaying in full. This in effect says I returned with negative account balance. What a tragedy. They say, I work as a CEO, I work as much as a head of a state - a common man, ordinary worker assuming responsibilities far greater than I can fit in. Did I get rewarded as much. Never. Despite earning three to four times as much as in India, me returning empty handed is a case in point of a poor man helping rich get richer while sacrifising his own meagre income serving the country. This period just hit home the point that American rich are tremendously aided by ordinary workers who doesn't get compensated or rewarded in a requ...
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The Game Which Isn't Played: Why India's Tech Industry Built a Fortune and Lost the Future

A few weeks back, I had written an article on 'Equality in action: How India's DEI programs benefitted everyone'. This is to hit home the point equality is a flowing theme on the ground and really practised for the benefit of everyone when world is looking with suspicion and anxiously worried at 'We, Our' buzzwords. Coincidentally around the same time a Chinese AI assistant called Kimi released its K3 model and it was making waves with parameters comparable to other best frontier models of the world. So I checked Kimi to write an article on equality when China is my favorite subject when propagating equality. Here I am, using Chinese model released at right time to propagate equality which should augur extremely good for equality itself and bring a notion of honesty for the cause, saying India is indeed a land of equality. Trust me, the notion of equality puts so many at ease and peace. I revealed this story to hit home the point that Chinese development of frontier...
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Filling the Huge Vacuum of Need: Why Bharat Must Take Up the Path of Hard, Honest and Historic CJP Protests

There is a particular kind of insult that becomes a banner. When the Chief Justice of India compared unemployed youth and social media activists to "cockroaches" and "parasites," he could not have imagined that a generation would pin the slur to its chest and walk with it to Jantar Mantar. In May 2026, digital strategist Abhijeet Dipke founded the Cockroach Janta Party as satire. By June, the joke had legs — and those legs were marching. What happened between 6 June and 25 July 2026 in the heart of New Delhi deserves to be studied, celebrated, and repeated. Because it worked. From Memes to Marches The CJP began where Gen Z lives: online. But it understood what most digital campaigns never do — a hashtag has never made a minister resign. A trending topic dissolves by evening. So the CJP did the harder thing: it logged off and showed up. Joined by student organisations — AISF, AISA, SFI — it pitched itself at Jantar Mantar, Delhi's historic street of dissent, dema...
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An Indian Educational Decade Like No Other: Looking Beyond the Setbacks and Bolstering the Progress, Reform Trajectory

Nations, like people, are tempted to judge themselves by their worst week. In late July 2026, Indian education had one. The NEET-UG paper leak, the cancelled exam, the protests at Jantar Mantar, a hunger strike that moved the country, and finally the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on July 25 — with Pralhad Joshi assigned additional charge of the ministry — made for the kind of headlines that tempt a nation to conclude its education system is broken. It is the wrong conclusion. A leak is a wound; it is not the body. And the body — built over twelve years of expansion, reform and rising global standing — is stronger than at any point in independent India's history. The task now is not to pull back in disappointment but to build forward on evidence. The evidence is considerable. The spine: a policy thirty-four years overdue Start with the National Education Policy 2020, the first comprehensive rewrite of India's education framework since 1986. It replac...
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Wellfare Through Investing in Mothers of School Students: Why Andhra Pradesh's Quiet Experiment in Educational Socialism Could be a Model for India

Every year, as   a new academic   session begins, the   Andhra Pradesh government   deposits   ₹15,000 into the bank account of the mother of every eligible school-going child   under its flagship   education support programme,   Thalliki Vandanam . The assistance is   intended to help   families meet the   recurring costs of   education—uniforms, shoes, textbooks, notebooks,   school bags, transport, examination fees and   other expenses that   often force poor   households to borrow   or even withdraw   children from school. Unlike many welfare   schemes that restrict   benefits to one   child in a   family,   Thalliki Vandanam extends support for every eligible child studying from Class I to Class XII in recognised government, aided and private schools.   This year alone, the programme is   expected to benefit  ...
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