On Women Who Refused to Live in Silence and Be Consigned to Oblivion
Passages on women from Eduardo Galeano’s most recent work, “Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History”.
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Rabindranath Tagore: Poet of Resistance, Humanism and Freedom – 3 Articles
‛Rabindrasangeet in Revolt: Tagore’s Songs and the Politics of Famine’; ‛Bengal Between Tagore and Majoritarianism: The Battle Between Universal Humanism and Communal Nationalism’; ‛Living with Freedom: Rabindranath Tagore and the Courage to Keep the Mind Fearless’.
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Ambedkar and the Grammar of Justice
Against the Brahminical imagination that hardened socially contingent exclusion into a hereditary condition, B.R. Ambedkar proposed Navayana—a new Buddhism—an inheritance transformed by the demands of justice.
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Walking with Gandhi in Our Times
Gandhi’s transformative walks, particularly the contrasting Dandi and Noakhali marches, serve as profound reflections on the intersection of personal redemption and political action. The contemporary political landscape in India reveals a troubling disconnection from Gandhi’s principles of truth and nonviolence.
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Delimitation: The Real Agenda Behind BJP’s Push – 4 Articles
‛Explained: Why Uproar Over Delimitation, More LS Seats Using Women’s Quota as “Cover”’; ‛Christophe Jaffrelot on Delimitation and Modi Govt’s Plans for Centralised “Akhand Bharat”’; ‛Delimitation Could Create Permanent Winners and Losers in Representation’; ‛Ambedkar, Rajaji’s Fears of North-South Divide Resonate in Modi Govt’s Delimitation Agenda’.
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PM Modi Should Have Apologised to Women Much Earlier Over Bigger Failures – 3 Articles
‛Not for Failure to Push Bills Through Parliament, Modi Should Have Apologised to Women Over Bigger Failures’; ‛Please, Modi ji, Don’t Shed Tears for India’s Women’; ‛BJP’s “Men’s Reservation Bill” Defeated, But When Will Women’s Reservation Win?’.
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Noida: Workers Protest Against Low Wages, Poor Working Conditions – 4 Articles
‛Notes from Noida’; ‛The Workers Who Keep India’s Cities Running Have a Simple Message – Pay Us Living Wages’; ‛Noida: High Profits, Stagnant Wages, and a City on Edge’; ‛In India, Minimum Wages Exist Only on Paper’.
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Rural India Is Not Giving Up a Work Guarantee Without a Fight
Across villages in India, protests erupted in December 2025 after the Narendra Modi-led BJP government scrapped one of the largest social safety nets in the world and replaced it with a watered-down version.
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Understanding the Situation in Manipur – 2 Articles
‛Manipur Needs No More Repression or Coercion. It Needs a Deeper Understanding’: It seems the idea of “foreign hand” has become an excuse for not seeing the internal causes for the ongoing violence in Manipur. Also: ‛How to End the Sufferings of the People of Manipur?’.
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India’s Education Crisis: Fake Claims and Attacks on Academic Freedom – 2 Articles
‛India’s Education Scam: From Fake Data, to Fake Degrees and Fake Claims’: When rankings, patents, and enrolment numbers to obtain government benefits become ends in themselves, products of such a system will lead to compromised competence in laboratories, courtrooms, hospitals, and boardrooms. Also: ‛Why Academic Freedom in India Hangs Between Attacks and Resistance’.
