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Ambedkar to Kanshi Ram, Lohia to Vajpayee, a look at Lucknow mega memorials for icons

December 16, 2025 1:36 pm

PM Modi is likely to inaugurate Rashtriya Prerna Sthal in Lucknow on December 25, that houses 65-ft-tall statues of Vajpayee, Shyama Prasad Mookerjee and Deen Dayal Upadhaya besides a museum and galleries

Sachchidanand Sinha's death has snapped the last living link of the Lohia stream of socialism

November 24, 2025 12:20 pm

A multilingual intellectual and principled activist, Sinha journeyed from mill worker to editor of Mankind, shaping debates on democracy, imperialism, and social justice

A history of Congress and the OBCs, from first quota demands to Mandal challenge

August 04, 2025 11:42 am

Over the decades, the Congress party has missed several opportunities to reach out to OBCs in North India. It has also failed to claim credit for policy changes beneficial to OBCs that Congress governments initiated

Uproar over rising fee in private schools in Delhi has revived a question: How can education be made accessible without compromising on quality? (Illustration by C R Sasikumar)

More regulation on private schools is bad idea

April 25, 2025 7:09 am

The notion that the failure of government schools can be overcome by higher regulatory cholesterol for private schools ignores rising costs, including higher teacher salaries, skyrocketing construction costs, and increasing land prices.

Yogendra Yadav Writes: The Ram Manohar Lohia we need

March 25, 2025 1:10 pm

His political thinking offers an ideological resource that is desperately needed to defend our republic today

Many decades after his passing and even in a drastically different political landscape, parties have continued to echo Ram Manohar Lohia's espousal of social justice.

This word means: Lohiaite

March 23, 2025 9:49 pm

Every day, 500 words on a word (or expression) that has appeared in The Indian Express.

How Lohia’s new Socialism shaped his social justice politics

March 23, 2025 1:59 pm

Ram Manohar Lohia’s Socialism synthesised Marxist economics with Gandhian ethics. But how did he envision materialising democratic decentralisation and social justice?