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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
There are claims that the roots of democratic institutions can be found in ancient India. Studies have shown that such institutions existed not only in India but also in other parts of the world. No one society can claim it was the ‘mother’.
The agreement announced on Friday in Beijing regarding the normalisation of diplomatic relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran is a historic event. China’s mediation signifies that we are witnessing a profound shift of the tectonic plates in the geopolitics of the 21st century.
This is not about the survival of a free press. There is no longer a free press. The paramount issue is justice and our most precious human right: to be free.
The great British philosopher, mathematician, historian, and Nobel laureate Bertrand Russell (May 18, 1872–February 2, 1970) contemplated the question of what could be the measure of a life well lived in this wonderful short essay penned in his eighty-first year.
International Women’s Day has a very long progressive history that’s often not well known.
How long will India’s working people live with a policy regime that concentrates unimaginable levels of wealth in a few hands and leaves millions of people struggling for food, healthcare, decent schooling, work, and pensions when they age?
All of India’s diversities exist because of multilingualism and multiculturalism, and arguably, what binds all of us is “Indianness”, which is the outcome of our allegiance to the Indian Constitution.
The Matia transit camp in Lower Assam currently holds 69 ‘foreigners’, along with 300 people arrested as part of the state’s crackdown on child marriage.
Why does the State always have a protectionist stance toward Muslim women? The Muslim woman has always been a pawn in the hands of the community and now the State.
On paper the devadasi system is banned. Yet, across South India, it continues to cast a long shadow of violence in the lives of Dalit women.
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