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RBI’s $51 Billion Forex Reserve Fall and $200 Billion Forward Liabilities: What the Rupee Defence Reveals

India's reserves fell $51.1 billion in four weeks to 2 October 2026, while the RBI's net forward dollar liabilities reached around $200 billion in August. Currency intervention, valuation losses and earlier swap-driven inflows tell a more complicated story than claims of deliberate public deception.

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The Snake and the Mice: How Promises of Safety Can Turn People Against Each Other

A Hindi fable about a snake that promises to eat only weak mice shows how selective harm and personal safety can make a community cooperate with its own destruction. Political research helps explain the real mechanisms—and limits—of this warning.

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The Rats in the Well: How a ‘Divide Trap’ Turns Shared Danger into Conflict

A Hindi reel tells of rats lured into a well, turned against each other and released by the farmer. Its allegory raises a real question: how can competition and manufactured hostility distract people from the conditions trapping them, and what does research say about escaping that cycle?

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Mukesh Chandrakar’s Killing: The Bijapur Road Investigation and the Risks Facing Independent Journalists

Independent journalist Mukesh Chandrakar reported on alleged road construction irregularities in Bijapur before he was murdered in January 2025. Police later charged four men, alleging retaliation for his reporting. His case exposes how vulnerable local reporters can be when scrutinising powerful contractors.

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Why Cats, Night Sweeping, Nail Cutting and Lemon-Chilli Became Omens — and Where the Reel’s Science Goes Wrong

A viral reel offers practical explanations for five familiar Indian beliefs. Some reflect plausible safety or dust concerns, but their claimed histories remain unproved—and a 94% bacteria reduction study did not test an ordinary ghee diya.

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Malappuram and Patna: What District Income Figures Really Show About Kerala and Bihar

A widely shared comparison places Kerala’s lowest-income district above Bihar’s richest. Official 2023–24 figures tell a more complicated story: Malappuram and Patna illustrate both India’s regional economic gap and why the year and price measure matter.

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The Parrots, Two Bowls and a Cage: How Political Rivalry Can Distract from Public Accountability

A Hindi political parable shows parrots abandoning their escape to fight over red and blue food bowls. It raises a democratic question: when rival groups compare what others receive, who is holding power accountable? Research supports the risk, but not every claim of deliberate division.

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The 1945 Agrani Ravana Cartoon: Godse’s Newspaper, Savarkar’s Funding and the Politics of Demonising Gandhi

A Dussehra cartoon attributed to Nathuram Godse’s Agrani depicted Gandhi and other nationalist leaders as Ravana. The newspaper’s documented links to Savarkar illuminate a bitter ideological conflict, but the cartoon does not establish responsibility for Gandhi’s later murder.

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Have mob violence, bulldozer demolitions and public failures become normalised in India? What the evidence shows

A viral political list names lynchings, rapists being celebrated, demolitions, disasters and restrictions on dissent under the BJP–RSS. Court rulings and official records substantiate serious examples, but do not prove every charge or a single cause. The central question is how authorities and society respond when abuses occur.

Open Post: Have mob violence, bulldozer demolitions and public failures become normalised in India? What the evidence shows

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