Discrimination Against Women, Muslims and SCs-STs Rising – Two Articles
Discrimination Against Women, Muslims and SCs-STs Rising: Oxfam; India Enters ‘Amrit Kaal’ with Growing Atrocities Against Dalits.
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NEP’s Focus on ‘Autonomy’: Are We Ushering in Academic Capitalism?; Also: Allahabad University Fee Hike Protests
Commentators see the National Education Policy 2020’s emphasis on choice, modularity and autonomy as disquieting because they see it as pushing the education system into a neoliberal governance mode; Also – Allahabad University Fee Hike by 400% – Protests Rage.
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Remembering Habib Tanvir on His Birth Centenary Year
To discuss Habib Tanvir is to talk about several styles, expressions, identities and ethos of theater simultaneously. The truth is that there are so many facets to Habib Tanveer’s acting and personality that it is impossible to include them all.
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Why Is the Great Project of Ecological Civilization Specific to China?
We don’t know if China will succeed in overcoming its immense ecological contradictions. But rather than worrying about China’s struggle to create an ecological civilization, I worry with it, and with the struggles of the Chinese people as a whole.
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Where Will the Nuclear Waste Go?
The very big problem: nuclear waste needs to be isolated from life for way more than 100,000 years.
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How a Brazilian Town Took a Bet on Basic Income
The seaside town of Maricá, Brazil, was struggling, but it had oil revenue. So the local government started a basic income program based on a local alternative currency.
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Social Stress Can Speed Up Immune System Aging – New Research
As people age, their immune systems naturally begin to decline. This may be an important part of such age-related health problems as cancer and cardiovascular disease. But not all immune systems age at the same rate. A recent study found that social stress is associated with signs of accelerated immune system aging.
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The Internationalist National Movement of India
The overall approach of the national movement towards foreign policy was that the immediate pragmatic interests made sense only when placed in a larger setting – of a vision of a world order based on peace and cooperation. This approach continued after independence.
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Dowry Was Banned 60 Years Ago. But Cases Are Rising, While Grieving Families Find Justice Harder Than Ever
More than 18 women die every day in India in violence related to demands for dowry, which was outlawed in 1961. The number of complaints against dowry demands and related violence rose 25% in 2021 over the previous year. The conviction rate has plunged, as many who complain eventually compromise.
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The Gujarati Women Who Taught This Reporter Courage
Bilkis Bano is among the many brave women of Gujarat who stood up to get justice for themselves as well as others. These women bore the worst of trauma caused by efforts to deny them justice or to prevent them securing justice for the others.
