You can suppress an armed uprising with police and courts. You cannot suppress six thousand people who have found their God again without anyone’s permission. That is what truly terrified the Church about Birsa Munda: not his bow and arrow, but his ability to make his people feel whole without a missionary’s approval.
A NITI Aayog assessment this February found that, under a net‑zero scenario, mineral demand will be 51% higher than under current policy. In other words, dependence deepens, not eases, precisely as India races to build EVs, batteries, defence platforms and renewable capacity.
The JPSC scam is a textbook illustration of how bureaucratic inefficiency and corruption allow the infestation of multilayered networks of exam mafia and shady private firms wrapped like a parasite around the very machinery that is tasked with selecting the officers and staff for running the government.
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