Jantar Mantar protest has 'gone beyond angry youth'—Global media looks at CJP stir after Monday's police crackdown. Watch ThePrint #GlobalPulse with Vidhi Bhutra

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Militancy does not account for Punjab economy’s decline that commenced a decade after the cessation of violence. Three subtle, cumulative failures provide the explanation. Watch #Economix with ThePrint Consulting Editor (Economics) Bidisha Bhattacharya

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'Batalvi is the original sad boy, and arguably more quotable than poets twice as famous. Everything he wrote circles back to one thread: Longing or birha. He wrote on love that was lost or unfulfilled so vividly that it refuses to fade.'

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'Pradhan’s dismissal of the dharna on 21 July is part of a larger distaste that the BJP has tried to cultivate, since 2014, against dissent in any shape or form. Yet the self-declared defenders of Hindu civilisation might be better off reading the texts that their ecosystem has been churning into self-help books for business gurus'

Anirudh Kanisetti, author and historian, writes

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India wants to become a global medical-tourism hub and is the preferred destination for many from Africa and Central Asia. More than five lakh foreign nationals travelled to the country for treatment last year according to the government and the estimated medical-tourism market was at $8.7 billion in 2025. It is set to almost double to $16.2 billion by 2030.

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'From Irom Sharmila to Sonam Wangchuk, every govt fears giving in. It can’t admit protests work'- Watch this week's video blog by ThePrint Columnist Karanjeet Kaur

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'The government should come out with clear and credible evidence at the earliest about potential foreign funding for the protest.'

Seshadri Chari, former editor of ‘Organiser’, writes

'This generation is not protesting because one examination failed. It is protesting because it believes the system doesn’t want to stop failing. That is a far bigger crisis.'

Amana Begam, columnist, writes

'India’s history seems, for a moment, to take the government’s side. On November 25, 1949, not far from where those students were lathi-charged this week, BR Ambedkar gave the Constituent Assembly his last great speech. He warned that once constitutional methods of redress were available, there could be no place for the “bloody methods of revolution”, civil disobedience, non-cooperation or satyagraha, the road he called the “Grammar of Anarchy”.'

Pratik Patnaik, partner at Samvad Partners, writes

'For a bloody uprising that saw 1,400 fatalities and over 20,000 injuries, surely the gains should have been much more than this. '

Deep Halder writes

Elon Musk is no stranger to controversy and he might be bulletproof to insults by now but in a recent interview with The Economist, he denied that he is a racist.

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Opinion: 'In the 40 years to 1990-91, the economy had grown five-fold. Since the population grew two-and-a-half times in that period, income per head barely doubled, as a result. In comparison, in the 35 years since 1990-91, the economy has multiplied eight-fold. And since the population has grown by 70 per cent in the interim, per capita income has multiplied more than four-and-a-half times.'

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Jantar Mantar protest vs Gen Z protests in Nepal & Bangladesh, demand for Dharmendra Pradhan's resignation, Ken-Betwa protest, and more—in our weekly show #ShekharSeSawaal, Shekhar Gupta answers your questions with Apoorva Mandhani

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Going by its (Modi government's) method and record, it’s almost impossible that it will remove Dharmendra Pradhan... The Modi government won’t be seen doing anything under pressure. They blinked once, under the farmers’ protest. They won’t again.

ThePrint Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta

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“I am saddened by the events of the last 10 days. This is not a matter of personal prestige for me. The youth power of India is the real strength of this country. I will not let the youth of the country get trapped in the vicious cycle of confusion; this is my resolve,” Pradhan said in a post on X.

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RAF Inspector General Seema Dhundhia told the personnel and officers that such “excessive use of force” is not justified and that use of any force should be done in a graded manner, according to sources.

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'The PM was speaking to Gen Z through their language; Gen Z was answering back in its own language.'

Shruti Vyas, Delhi based journalist, writes

'As the police cleared out the lanes around Jantar Mantar, dismantled the stage of the CJP, the streets held on to the remnants of the protest — a single slipper, a broken phone, some stones allegedly pelted at both the protesters and police in separate instances, and several posters expressing anger towards the present dispensation.'

Alisha Dutta writes

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The Bangladesh Army has raised a new unit with four companies named after the first four Islamic Caliphs — Umar, Abu Bakr, Ali, and Uthman. ThePrint Columnist & Author Deep Halder explains

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Union Minister Pralhad Joshi has been given additional charge of the Ministry of Education, following the resignation of Dharmendra Pradhan amid protests over NEET exam paper leaks.