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A caste census may not transform the course of electoral politics. But bringing caste contradictions to the fore could give the social justice parties a…
▶27-Nov-2023
Few have tried to understand the significance of the free bus travel scheme that a handful of states have introduced. In Tamil Nadu the benefits for women have…
▶20-Nov-2023
IIT Bombay faculty statement against the recent attacks on and targeting of a colleague and social media posts with biased allegations.
▶14-Nov-2023
The reason why many decent Americans do not see the tragedy of the Palestinians is that Israel is doing to Palestine what white Americans did to the Native…
▶16-Oct-2023
The Meos of Mewat who suffered so much in the recent violence in Nuh, Haryana, have a history of seeking to live in peace. A writer discovers her grandfather…
▶01-Nov-2023
‘While We Watched’, a documentary on the journalist Ravish Kumar, is a courageous film that tells the story of our times, specifically the steady decline in…
▶24-Jul-2023
A war-ravaged country torn apart by militancy and poverty; Afghanistan is now a textbook example of a failed state. But the region was once home to a…
▶08-May-2023
Har Dayal, a founding member of the Ghadar party, was an anarchist who moved between advocacy of revolution to pacificism, later advocating a utopian “world…
▶03-May-2023
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In episode 5 of 'The Business of News' podcast, Rohan Venkat and Jayant Sriram speak with Ritu Kapur, co-founder and CEO of 'The Quint', on…
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Vikash Keshri joins Kiran Kumbhar in this episode to speak on MBBS and MPH training systems in India, focusing specifically on the discipline of community…
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'The Hindu''s subscription model has been a lighthouse example of business acumen for news publishers. Ramanathan S & Jayant Sriram speak…
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Letters
Silence about Absence of Science in Government Schools
The article laments the fact that women ‘make up the largest minority group in science’. It also emphasizes how persisting biases have implications for other…
▶01-Dec-2023
Padmini Swaminathan Chennai
Neither 'Revidis', nor even 'Freebies'; Something More and Less
This article is, to my mind, the first serious discussion of what was derogatorily referred to as 'Revdis' and then picked up unthinkingly by the media and…
▶05-Dec-2023
P. Gunasekhar, Chennai
Responsibility in Academics
This is an article that is expansive in terms of its scope and coverage; at the same time it contextualises the question for India and effectively demonstrates…
▶13-Nov-2023
Padmini Swaminathan, Chennai
US violence
The US has a history of gratuitous and horrendous violence not only against Native Americans but anyone who was considered an impediment to American plans —…
▶16-Oct-2023
Sunder Thomas
Forthcoming
To be published soon
Adopt a Monument by Aparna Balachandran
Poetic Traditions and Inter-community Relations by Amit Basole
Working of PLI by Biswajit Dhar
Mediatisded Politics in India by Francis Cody
Women and Work by Gita Sen and Ritu Dewan
On the Cricket World Cup 2023, Emergent India and its Sikh Diaspora, The question of academic freedom, and more
On Palestine and Israel; Postcolonial conflcits in North East India; The rise of communism in Kerala; and more
'One Nation, One Election', Why has the rule of law become so fragile?, On the State of Working India 2023
The Fires of Nuh, Demolitions: Rule by Law or Rule of Law?, The Politics over California’s Anti-Caste Bill, and more
