Academic Freedom Is at Stake. We Must Stand in Solidarity With Professor Gilbert Sebastian.
Teachers have a right to have their opinion. They do not have to set aside their political opinions and ideologies before entering a classroom.
In Chhattisgarh, the Murder of an Adivasi Police Officer Shows the Warped Sense of Maoist Justice
By enacting kangaroo courts and executions, Naxalites are legitimising the extra-judicial methods the state uses against them.
On Good Friday, a Message for All Indians
Nations like individuals can only be made through the agony of the cross and in no other way. Joy comes not out of infliction of pain on others but out of pain voluntarily borne by oneself – said Gandhi.
‘Defend the Essential’: Ashoka’s Trustees Should Read this Note by Gandhi in 1940
If the institution cannot house a figure like Pratap Bhanu Mehta, then why does it exist?
By Playing Hindutva Politics, AAP Is Stirring Up Trouble
AAP has now decided that it is not enough to merely look Hindu. It seeks to replace the BJP by dipping into its poisonous Hindutva lexicon.
It’s Clear Why NewsClick Is Being Targeted, and Why it Was Viewed as a Threat
Platforms like NewsClick and the people involved in running it take risks because they want to make the freedom of expression substantive.
Farmers Are Still Focused on the Real Issues. We Shouldn’t Be Distracted Either.
A months-long agitation cannot be not delegitimised on the basis of one day. You need to have the clarity of Gandhi, the eternal resister to injustice, to refuse to give up the idea of civil resistance if a section of the resisters fails to fully restrain itself.
How Should We Remember December 6?
How can we hope to become one people if a single event or a date evokes two disparate and antagonistic memories in two sections of the country?
What Swaraj Meant to Gandhi – and Why the Government Wants to Bury that Vision of Freedom
The ideas of justice and the primacy of the individual form the bedrock of the Gandhian world view.
Left or Right, a Murder Is a Murder
Kerala CM and his comrades violated this sacred principle when they praised P.K. Kunjananthan, a man convicted of the murder of T.P. Chandrashekharan, an estranged party member.