Envisioning a Law for the Indian Woman: A Recollection
For the Indian woman, the family – the ‘man’s castle’ – has never been a safe harbour, never safe from violence.
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‘Uproar Over Reservations, Caste Enumeration Serves to Humiliate Dalits, Not Uplift Them’: Anand Teltumbde
Anand Teltumbde argues that caste enumeration entrenches hierarchy instead of dismantling it, and explains why the Modi government’s U-turn on a caste census is rooted in electoral arithmetic.
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India’s Migrants: Exclusion by Design
Migrant workers fuel India’s growth yet remain excluded from its rewards. Policy silences and regional inequalities sustain their exploitation, and caste hierarchies have been reconfigured within neoliberal urban economies to normalise their exclusion from the nation’s systems.
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Have We All Forgotten Sanjiv Bhatt?
We speak of democracy, freedom, and justice—but sometimes nations betray their bravest voices. Sanjiv Bhatt, once a senior police officer who dared to speak uncomfortable truth about the 2002 Gujarat carnage, sits in prison. His crime? Not murder. Not corruption. But refusal to bow before power.
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A Brief History of India’s Education System, Part 4D: Higher Education During the Modi Years
The eigth part of a series of articles on ‘India’s Education Journey from Macaulay to NEP’. This article discusses the impact of the Modi Government’s NEP-2020 on India’s higher education system.
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Faux Welfare
India has replaced genuine welfare—education, health, justice, and environmental care—with short-term handouts that buy loyalty but stunt progress.
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Beyond the Farm Laws: Corporate Cloud Poised to Reign Over India’s Fields – 2 Articles
Nearly four years after India’s historic year-long farmers’ protests forced the repeal of three pro-corporate farm laws, it is clear that the government’s underlying agenda of corporatisation (recolonisation) is being advanced through bureaucratic schemes, digital agriculture partnerships and policy frameworks in the name of promoting ‘efficiency’ and ‘modernisation’.
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The Meteor and the Mahatma
The temptation to pit Gandhi and Bhagat Singh against each other is little more than a dilettantish pastime. The truth is that they had a lot in common: fearlessness, calm and an enormous spirit of self-sacrifice.
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A Brief History of India’s Education System, Part 4C: Saffronisation of School Education
The seventh part of a series of articles on ‘India’s Education Journey from Macaulay to NEP’. This article discusses a key strategy adopted by the BJP for advancing its political and cultural agenda – the saffronisation of the country’s education system.
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The Century of Self-Respect
A grand two-day conference was held at St Antony’s College, Oxford University, on September 4 and 5, 2025, on “The Self-Respect Movement and Its Legacies”. The conference marked the centenary of the Self-Respect Movement.
