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Bhagat Singh is probably the only one from amongst our freedom struggle heroes, who can be celebrated by both—India and Pakistan. It is possible because he stood for a non-sectarian and egalitarian world.
‘The Law and Reality: Are Dalits Not Dalits if They Convert to Christianity or Islam?’: Could the Supreme Court have ended up engineering a profound collision between theories of constitutional jurisprudence and the bloody, dirt-caked realities of rural India? Also: ‘Explainer: What the Law Says on “Scheduled Caste” Status of Christians and Muslims’.
‘Withdraw Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill, 2026 Now’; ‘The Curious Logic of the Transgender Persons Amendment Bill’; ‘The Transgender Bill Doesn’t Amend Rights, It Erases Us’; ‘Satrangi Salaam: A Community-Led Protest Against the Amended Transgender Law’; ‘Petition Urges President to Withhold Assent to the Regressive Bill’.
‘Rainbow Representation Reaches India: A New Moment in Democratic Politics’. Also: ‘The History of LGBTQIA+ Leaders’: The melting of homo-ostracism is not just a victory for the LGBTQIA+ community; it is a victory for the principle that in a true democracy, the only thing that should be “incompatible with tradition” is the exclusion of its own citizens.
‘Noose Tightens, Alarmingly, Around Our Digital Freedoms’: MeitY’s draft IT rules are only one piece of the puzzle of digital authoritarianism in India. Also: ‘Is the Freedom to Express Oneself in India Going Down the Toilet?’.
In “Speaking of History”, historian Romila Thapar and history enthusiast Namit Arora stage a conversation on caste, method, and early India, but the exchange also reveals the limits of pop history when it brushes against serious scholarship.
A land that gave the world its first lesson in the conscience of power deserves more than a footnote in its own nation’s story.
‘Invisible Hands, Unrecognized Labour: India’s Domestic Workers and the Limits of Women’s Empowerment’; ‘Women Without Work: Capitalism, Care Labour and India’s Failed Growth Model’: India has one of the lowest female labour force participation rates among major economies.
The Prime Minister went to Jerusalem for partnership gains, leaving the country’s plural memory and Palestinian solidarity behind. Days later, Israel and the US struck Iran. India’s West Asia balancing act may never be the same.
Simply put, the US exposed the present Indian ruling elite as frauds and comprador elements—basically, cowards and cynics. At one point, when Trump’s theatrics reached the high noon, he even boasted he could “end” Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s political career.
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