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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
A delay of two years, unreliable hate-crime statistics, and discarded sedition charges, the NCRB 2023 Report offers us marginal data on crime but plentiful data on social control.
‘Raids at Kashmir Times Office in Jammu; Editors Call it “Attempt to Silence” Independent Media’; ‘Kashmir Times: A Jammu Newspaper That Stood Up for the Valley’: Established in 1954, it is considered to be an influential and credible voice in Kashmir’s media landscape.
The tenth part of a series of articles on ‘India’s Education Journey from Macaulay to NEP’. Since universities are crucial spaces for questioning authority and expressing dissent, ever since the Modi Government came to power in 2014, it has launched a vicious assault on our universities to bring them under its ideological control. This article discusses this assault on our universities.
‘“Instant Help” to “Incessant Labour”: The Invisibility of Domestic Workers in Urban India’: A study of the impact of capitalist and patriarchal systems on the structural invisibility and devaluation of domestic workers in urban India. Also: ‘Karnataka: Domestic Workers Bill a Good Step, But Some Concerns Persist’.
The State runs on a democracy of lowered expectations, and Nitish Kumar’s victory shows he manages that low bar better than anyone else.
In Assam’s detention centre for suspected foreigners, the state wages an attritional assault against the lives of the detained. But that is only one part of a majoritatian fantasy to create a sinister ethno-racial utopia.
‘Consider Kashmir’: Kashmiris are fearful for their lives, their employment and the future of their children. It is necessary now more than ever to study the factors that point towards the volatility of Kashmir. Also: ‘A Conflict No One Asked For’.
India’s performance across the four dimensions of the GGG Index economic participation: educational attainment, health and survival, and political empowerment, tell a story of stalled momentum.
Over the past decade, the new normal has been an increasing decline in standards of judicial independence and integrity. As the 52nd chief justice retires, we reflect on his complicated legacy as a jurist, an administrator, and a Dalit chief justice in a withering democracy.
India’s coastal cities face an increasing risk of flooding, driven by a warming world and the now-frequent extreme weather events. While some cities are at a higher risk, this imperils the lives, livelihoods and critical infrastructure across the cities.
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