Tribute to Narendra Dabholkar: Duty to Develop Scientific Temper
A tribute to Dabholkar’s legacy. The author writes about what he understands by ‘scientific temper’, and how it can be developed by all.
Maulana Azad: A Progressive Educationist Who Fought for a Composite India
Independent India’s first education minister Maulana Abul Kalam Azad’s birth anniversary on November 11 is being observed as National Education Day, in celebration of his glorious legacy as a freedom fighter, educationist, and founder and editor of several newspapers.
Economist Ashwini Deshpande on Why Reservations are Not the Right Instrument to Reduce Poverty
Reservations were conceptualised as compensation for social discrimination, not economic deprivation, argues Deshpande, professor of Economics at Ashoka University, while discussing the apex court verdict.
Ladakh Shows that Modi Government has Learnt the Wrong Lessons from the 1962 War
Driven by a faulty narrative, our memory of 1962 still affects Indian attitudes and responses to China.
No Matter What it Says Now, RSS Did Not Participate in the Freedom Struggle
The facts are as follows: The RSS was set up in 1925 by K.B. Hedgewar. In the entire period from 1925 till 1947, it did not participate in any campaign or movement launched by the Congress or any other party or group. Nor did it initiate any movement against the British by itself.
Aruna Asaf Ali and Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay: Revolutionary Women in the Freedom Struggle
Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay and Aruna Asaf Ali were two prominent women in the freedom struggle who were near contemporaries. Examining their lives together uncovers an essential unity in their vision, which may not have been realized during their life-time but serves as an inspiration today.
Leader of Our Legions: Sardar Patel’s Tribute to Nehru
‘Priceless possession of a free India’: This was how Vallabhbhai Patel described Jawaharlal Nehru.
Bharat Jodo Yatra Could Be a New Beginning for the Congress in More Ways Than One
Apart from the warmth with which Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra has been received in the south of the country, Mallikarjun Kharge’s election as Congress president also opens the way for more equitable alliances with other opposition parties.
Fascism | India | Journalism | Print Edition
Press Statements on Delhi Police Raids on the Editors of The Wire
Two Press Statements, condemning the raids on the residences and office of senior editors of the news portal, The Wire, in New Delhi and Mumbai on 31st October and 1st November, 2022 and manhandling of the lawyer, Shadan Farasat and other staff members of The Wire.
COVID19 | Economy | Education | Print Edition
Over 20,000 Schools Shut Down due to Second Wave of COVID: Report
Additionally, around 1.89 lakh teachers exited the workforce. These findings were revealed in the Unified District Information System for Education Plus (UDISE+) data for the year 2021-22.