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The ninth part of a series of articles on ‘India’s Education Journey from Macaulay to NEP’. This article discusses the opening up of India’s higher education sector to foreign universities under the NEP-2020.
Book Review: ‘Adivasi or Vanvasi: Tribal India and the Politics of Hindutva’, by Kamal Nayan Choubey. Choubey’s study reveals how the VKA uses service delivery to advance a larger agenda: dissolving tribal identity into undifferentiated Hindu majority.
Driven by guilt rather than a quest to understand the past, the RSS and its pantheon uses history to pit India’s leaders against each other and oversimplify Partition.
A broad-based coalition of social organisations and unions has called for an immediate halt to the ongoing privatisation of Mumbai’s public hospitals and health services and also demanded the filling of vacant posts and strengthening of public health facilities to ensure equitable, quality care for all residents of Mumbai.
‘Gandhamardhan’s Long Battle: Mining Fears Return to Odisha’s Sacred Hills’: Four decades after tribal resistance drove BALCO away, Adivasi communities sense renewed threats of bauxite mining—while fighting for forest rights and livelihoods. Also: ‘Endless Monsoons, Endless Trials: An Update from Tijmali (Raygada-Kalahandi)’.
Justice Ajit Prakash Shah, former chairperson of Law Commission of India, expresses concerns over amendments in the RTI Act, 2005, saying they “destroy this delicate equilibrium”.
For the Indian woman, the family – the ‘man’s castle’ – has never been a safe harbour, never safe from violence.
Anand Teltumbde argues that caste enumeration entrenches hierarchy instead of dismantling it, and explains why the Modi government’s U-turn on a caste census is rooted in electoral arithmetic.
Migrant workers fuel India’s growth yet remain excluded from its rewards. Policy silences and regional inequalities sustain their exploitation, and caste hierarchies have been reconfigured within neoliberal urban economies to normalise their exclusion from the nation’s systems.
We speak of democracy, freedom, and justice—but sometimes nations betray their bravest voices. Sanjiv Bhatt, once a senior police officer who dared to speak uncomfortable truth about the 2002 Gujarat carnage, sits in prison. His crime? Not murder. Not corruption. But refusal to bow before power.
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