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Mass migration, archaic database: The demographic reality behind 13 crore voters ‘deleted’ in SIR

A detailed analysis of the ECI's Special Intensive Revision (SIR), explaining how unrecorded internal migrations and outdated data silos led to a massive administrative cleanup of India's electoral rolls.

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Punjab insurgency victims remembered through photographs, memorials and fading records while perpetrators retain public prominence

The victims that Punjab politics chose to forget

Local memorials, police webpages, press-freedom records and family recollections preserve fragments of those killed, while incomplete archives, political commemorations and cultural narratives continue shaping which victims remain visible and which gradually disappear from public memory.

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Future of shipbuilding in India

Shipbuilding for the future world: India’s navigation path

Rajendra Chola was not targeting the top-10 global position. He read the winds of change; he saw the ocean as a highway, and he projected power with all he had. He built his ships strong enough to accomplish his goals. If India is going to reclaim any part of that thousand-year-old legacy, we need to build ships that will accomplish ours.

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