Fourth Estate intact in India: Envoy Ruchira Kamboj at United Nations
This sweeping assertion comes in the same week that journalist Ravish Kumar left NDTV.
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“You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train”: Remembering the People’s Historian Howard Zinn at 100
Remembering the legendary historian, author, professor, playwright and activist Howard Zinn, who was born 100 years ago this August.
SC Decision on EWS Reservations Strikes at Basic Structure of Constitution
The People’s Union for Civil Liberates (PUCL), India’s premier human rights organisation, has said that the Supreme Court judgement, upholding reservation for the Economically Weaker Sections (EWS), strikes at the “basic structure of the Constitution”.
REPLUG: Demonetisation Has Been an Utter Failure on All Fronts
In the entire history of post-Independence India, no single economic measure has been as devastating for the people and as utterly futile in achieving its stated objectives, as the demonetisation of currency notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 denomination.
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.
Shaheed Kartar Singh Sarabha: Youngest Ghadar Party Hero Executed at Age 19
November 16 marks the 106th martyrdom day of one of the youngest heroes of the freedom movement, which right-wing forces have been demeaning these days.
Of, By, and For the Elite: The Class Character of the U.S. Constitution
The founding fathers of the US Constitution feared and hated the concept of democracy. They derisively referred to it as “tyranny of the majority.” The constitution that they wrote reflects this, and seeks to restrict and prohibit involvement of the people in key areas of decision making.
The Boy Who Dared to Drink
Moved by the death of Indra Kumar Meghwal at the hands of his teacher, a poet wields his pen and lashes at the age-old caste system that keeps many at the receiving end of injustice
The Partition of Punjab and Bengal
India suffered not one partition but many. On the one hand India was partitioned into two nation states. But along with the country, two major regions – Punjab and Bengal, evolved through many centuries, were also partitioned – this partition of the regions was probably much more serious with extremely tragic consequences.
Baji Rout, the Light of India’s Liberty
On the role and contribution of India’s youngest martyr Baji Rout who was just twelve years old when he laid down his life for the freedom of our country.