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‘Why Does India Still Need Nehru?’: In the huge and highly colourful pageant of modern Indian history, the Mahatma remains unquestionably the tallest figure; Nehru marches only a few steps behind him, yet streets ahead of everyone else. Also: ‘The Lasting Legacy of Non-Alignment Pioneered by India’s First Prime Minister’; ‘Towards a State of Sorrow-lessness: Let Us Build Nehru’s Asoka Rajya’.
‘“New York, This City Belongs to You”: Zohran Mamdani’s Victory Speech’; ‘Reflections on Mamdami’s Amazing Speech by a Southasian Senior But Not Silent Citizen’: Dear Prime Minister, Home Minister, and those in positions of power—will you listen to this remarkable young man? Will you acknowledge and celebrate his roots in this country?
‘What’s Wrong with BJP’s “Vande Mataram” Campaign’: The right-wing celebrates it precisely because of what secular leaders long denied: the song was born in a novel imagining Muslim annihilation. Also: ‘Bande Mataram Fits the BJP’s Agenda, But its History is Complicated’; ‘Behind the Official Celebration of Vande Mataram is a Reality That Can’t Be Ignored’.
‘Indian Women’s World Cup Winning Team: A Mosaic of Unity in Diversity’: The world champions personified the spirit of unity in diversity, reflecting the very essence of India. Also: ‘A Cricket Victory with Grace and Without Macho Displays of Hyper-nationalism’; ‘Jemimah, You Are the Republic’s Pride’.
For almost last 3 decades now, on every anniversary of the 1984 genocide of Sikhs in India, this author has been reminding the Nation how the Indian State and judiciary did not bother to identify and punish the perpetrators of this horrendous mass killing of the innocents of the second largest religious minority of our country.
The ninth part of a series of articles on ‘India’s Education Journey from Macaulay to NEP’. This article discusses the opening up of India’s higher education sector to foreign universities under the NEP-2020.
Book Review: ‘Adivasi or Vanvasi: Tribal India and the Politics of Hindutva’, by Kamal Nayan Choubey. Choubey’s study reveals how the VKA uses service delivery to advance a larger agenda: dissolving tribal identity into undifferentiated Hindu majority.
Driven by guilt rather than a quest to understand the past, the RSS and its pantheon uses history to pit India’s leaders against each other and oversimplify Partition.
‘Gandhamardhan’s Long Battle: Mining Fears Return to Odisha’s Sacred Hills’: Four decades after tribal resistance drove BALCO away, Adivasi communities sense renewed threats of bauxite mining—while fighting for forest rights and livelihoods. Also: ‘Endless Monsoons, Endless Trials: An Update from Tijmali (Raygada-Kalahandi)’.
Justice Ajit Prakash Shah, former chairperson of Law Commission of India, expresses concerns over amendments in the RTI Act, 2005, saying they “destroy this delicate equilibrium”.
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