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GS-1PUNJAB MILITANCY - HISTORICAL MEMORY AND POLITICAL GRIEVANCE

Satluj and the Silence After Khalra: Why Unfinished Accountability, Not Cinema, Reopens Punjab's Wounds

Diljit Dosanjh-starrer "Satluj" was released and swiftly pulled from ZEE5 after triggering political controversy in Punjab. Union Minister Ravneet Singh Bittu challenged the filmmakers to produce documentary evidence for the 25,000-body figure shown in the film, while an Indian Express opinion piece argues the film did not cause the controversy - decades of unresolved political grievance and incomplete institutional…

Sub TopicINSTITUTIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY AND PUNJAB'S UNRESOLVED…SourceTHE INDIAN EXPRESS
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GS-1DEMOGRAPHY - POPULATION POLICY AND FERTILITY TRENDS

Population Panic to Delimitation Peril: The Demographic Story India Keeps Missing

An Indian Express opinion piece pushes back on recent claims that India faces imminent depopulation, arguing that projections from the Institute for Health Metrics (IHME) rest on flawed assumptions and that the more urgent policy issue is how early fertility decline in southern states could cost them parliamentary seats once delimitation is based on current population rather than 1971 figures.

Sub TopicDEMOGRAPHIC ASYMMETRY AND POST-2026 DELIMITATIONSourceTHE INDIAN EXPRESS
UPSC Relevance9/10
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GS-1RELIGIOUS PLURALISM AND CONSTITUTIONAL VALUES

Yato Mat, Tato Path: The 1860s Root of India's Constitutional Pluralism

Amid renewed public anxiety over religious identity following political transitions, an Indian Express opinion piece by the honorary secretary of The Foundation of the Dalai Lama revisits the Bengal Renaissance's spiritual universalism - Ramakrishna's cross-faith sadhana and Vivekananda's Parliament of World Religions address - as the deeper civilisational root of Indian pluralism, distinct from any borrowed constitutional…

Sub TopicBENGAL RENAISSANCE ROOTS OF INDIAN SECULARISMSourceTHE INDIAN EXPRESS
UPSC Relevance8/10
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