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We believe democracy is in crisis partly because journalism is suffering. If people are not informed and educated, they make poor choices. Social media has shortened attention spans, peddled falsehoods and promoted polarization because of its attention-grabbing and profit-maximizing model.
As a nonprofit, we are free from owners and advertisers. We have swum against the tide when journalism is shrinking. In 2021, Pew Research Center found that newsroom employment fell by 26% between 2008 and 2020. It is for this reason that we have come up with a new crowdsourced, cost-effective model of journalism based on your donations to achieve our mission.
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India’s former foreign secretary Kanwal Sibal shares his reflections on the changing global balance of power. We are living at a time where the unipolar dominance of the US is coming into question with the Russia-Ukraine War increasing inflation and risks of nuclear conflict.
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Since 1954, the internal borders have changed more in India than in the rest of the world. The retired director of the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, which trains Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers, explains the story of the formation of new states and India’s changing internal borders.
The first major news is about our team. Abul-Hasanat Siddique and Anna Pivovarchuk have left the organization after years of service.
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