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A decade after the law to end manual scavenging, thousands of workers continue to clean waste with little protection. The narrow framing of the law contributes…
▶28-Sep-2023
The unchecked use of antibiotics increases the odds of a pandemic in which infections are resistant to the available stock of antimicrobials.
▶11-Sep-2023
An open letter by current and former faculty members at the IIM Bangalore calling to defund the hate speech.
▶31-Aug-2023
India’s Constitution is more robust than the politics of those who call for its replacement.
▶23-Aug-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
Dr. Fu-Manchu is still around, determined to destroy western civilisation. The destruction of the Nord Stream pipeline is his latest fiendish act. But his…
▶18-Apr-2023
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Jayant Sriram speaks with Vignesh Vellore, the co-founder of 'The News Minute', and Nikhil Kanekal on collaborations among media organisations,…
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Kiran Kumbhar speaks with Veena Shatrugna, a medical doctor and a public health researcher, on the challenges in anaemia and undernutrition in India and on…
▶32 mins
Foreign aid, especially from the United States, has always been a testy matter for India. We speak to Gaurav Garg, assistant professor of history at Ashoka…
▶59 mins
Rohan Venkat speaks with Gaurav Arora, Chief Operating Officer at Jagran New Media and Ramanathan S, head of revenue and product at The News Minute, on how…
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Letters
Gig workers should not be separate
'Big Problems, Small Wins' is a well-written article. Gig workers must be recognised as workers according to the Industrial Disputes Act. If they are…
▶22-Aug-2023
Timir Basu, Kolkata
Need for investment in Nuh
It was good to read the article by Harsh Mandar on the violence in Nuh. Since I worked there a few years ago providing medical care, I know how poverty…
▶14-Aug-2023
Dr. Poornima Sheba Samuel Raj
Commands attention
Sevanti Ninan's article is detailed, grounded and written without rhetoric. A treat, especially for journalists. It commands attention. I wish journalists in…
▶14-Mar-2023
Anand K. Sahay, New Delhi
On Ideas and Theories
In his discourse, Sanjib Baruah has drawn our attention to the politics of ‘Indigeneity’ in contemporary Assam and its fallout – marginalisation of Muslims…
▶07-Feb-2023
Arup Kumar Sen Kolkata
Forthcoming
To be published soon
State of Academic Freedom in India by Apoorvanand
Working of PLI by Biswajit Dhar
Regulation of Artificial Intelligence by Anurag Mehra
Poetic Traditions and Inter-community Relations by Amit Basole
Brahmanical Caste Histories by Ananya Chakrabarty
On 'Against High-Caste Polygamy' by Mahitosh Mandal
The Fires of Nuh, Demolitions: Rule by Law or Rule of Law?, The Politics over California’s Anti-Caste Bill, and more
Muslim women and the UCC, Independence of the Central Bank, Legislating Equality, and more.
The state of the Indian economy; Improving preventive detention laws; Labour rights; and more
Cleansing the Past; Bihar Caste Census; Defence against Parliamentary Hegemony; and more