Assam & Mizoram CMs Clashed, But it’s Minorities Who Suffer in the Northeast
It’s the minorities who are used as a shield to advance the majority and the state’s interests and sovereignty.
Indian Women’s Hockey’s Fairytale Story Ridden with Personal Sacrifices
Every member in the Women’s Hockey Olympic Squad in Tokyo has been through personal struggles that can’t be measured in words.
For the BJP’s Failed Chanakyas, the Allure of Pegasus was Irresistible
From its apprenticeship days in Gandhinagar, the Modi crowd has had a fascination for unorthodox policemen and their unconventional – and often unlawful – repertoire of tricks and treats.
Why UP’s Population Control Bill Can Prove Disastrous for Women, Poor Families
The draft Bill will impact most adversely women across communities and classes, depriving them of their rights and rendering them even more vulnerable to ill health, social stigma and violence.
How a 19-Year-Old Found ‘Kairos’ at the Tikri Border
Nirvair Malhi, a 19-year-old high school graduate from Jalandhar, came to the Tikri border with the intention of visiting the protest for exactly a day. He has ended up staying there for the last seven months.
How Ambedkar Makes Us Richer
The Dalit feminist writer, Urmila Pawar, sums things up in her foreword by saying, “The more we see him (Dr. Ambedkar) in the round, the richer we become,” a point that can be made about no leader alive today.
Reading Rabindranath Tagore in Our Traumatic Times
The great Bengali poet, writer, thinker and artist, Rabindranath Tagore published a collection of short but deep observations on life world 100 years ago. The description of life and death in one of the stories in this collection relates closely to our everyday life in the post-COVID world.
News from ‘Kisan Sansad’; Farmers Launch ‘Mission UP’
Amidst Rain, Kisan Sansad Takes on Contract Farming; Women Farmers Hold ‘Kisan Sansad’; Farmers to Campaign Against BJP in Upcoming Polls.
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Whose History Is it Anyway?
A critical look at a report currently being considered by the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education pertaining to school history books. It unpacks the misplaced bases of comparison used in the report, and also examines the implications of its recommendations to erase or simplify histories of caste and gender.
Debate: Sudheendra Kulkarni on Bhagwat’s Speech of 4 July; and Two Responses
Opinion: Bhagwat’s Glasnost in RSS-Muslim Ties Is Welcome, But Can He Rein in Modi and Adityanath?; Counterview: The RSS’s Age-Old Agenda Is the Same, No Matter What Mohan Bhagwat Says; The Burden of Being ‘Bharatiya’ in Mohan Bhagwat’s Hindu Rashtra.