Review
What value are exams such as the Common University Entrance Test (CUET) for assessing students? Can we imagine a more equitable and just method for admitting…
▶18-Jan-2023
"'We the People' need to stand up to collectively raise their voices and demand that the central government and its functionaries stop the…
▶20-Jan-2023
Regulations to maintain standards of PhD programmes have led to the curbing of university autonomy.
▶09-Jan-2023
The outcry in Bareilly last month over students singing an Iqbal poem reminds us that we live in a hyper-nationalist time, where leaders glorify territorial…
▶04-Jan-2023
If you know little of hockey and you watch an international game with a group of spectators who know just as little, it is a special experience especially when…
▶24-Jan-2023
When the political times change, the civil servants learn to adapt. In the Old Testament the rule was to do nothing; in the new you learn to cook (not fry) a…
▶20-Dec-2022
A YouTube channel with more than a million followers is participating in the current surge in competitiveness of Indian chess. Chessbase India has a host,…
▶12-Dec-2022
The (erstwhile) Empire is under threat and the old heroes are recruited once more to vanquish the enemy. Their bravery is not to be questioned but there is a…
▶23-Nov-2022
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Ganesh Devy on the origins of Indian languages, their diverse historical trajectories, and their contemporary inequalities as well as their vast diversity.
▶1 hr 33 mins
Sushant Singh on the Agnipath scheme and its implications for India's national security
▶26 mins
On the welcome changes NEP aims to bring about as well as the formidable challenges that it faces in implementation.
▶1 hr 31 min
On the Ashoka edicts, TM Krishna sets the edicts to music and converses with Historian Nayanjyot Lahiri of Ashoka University.
▶45 min
The Supreme Court ruled that 10% reservation for Economically Weaker Sections in the General category is constitutional. Suno India's Suryatapa Mukherjee…
▶53 mins
Suno India’s Menaka Rao speaks to Dr Rajib Dasgupta about the scientific mechanism of oral rehydration therapy and why it works to save lives during acute…
▶34 mins
Nitya Rao on translating 'climate change' into local vocabularies, increased labour burdens on women and girls during a crisis, and changing marital…
▶24:18
In this introductory episode of 'Becoming Modern', host Kiran Kumbhar talks with Suno India co-founder Padma Priya about the importance of knowing…
▶31:10
Letters
Cuba's Drug Miracle
I read the article about Cuba's Vaccine Miracle with great interest, but I also think it is essential to describe it as "Cuba's Drug Miracle", as there has…
▶28-Feb-2022
Toshifumi Matsuyama, MD, Ph.D., Nagasaki University, Japan
Unconvincing Typology
I am curious about how one would boycott an empire, as the closing statement recommends. Billions of people live - a few prosper but most suffer - in these…
▶10-Oct-2022
Sara Abraham
Lack of trade union support for the self-employed
Advocate Indira Jaising's tribute to Elabehn Bhatt is significant for several reasons. Apart from highlighting the fact that Elabehn "saw more than one law…
▶10-Nov-2022
Padmini Swaminathan, independent scholar, Chennai
Deafening Silence
It is really unfortunate that the Census is being given a quiet burial.
I am equally intrigued by the complete silence of the Opposition on this issue.
▶05-Sep-2022
Padmini Swaminathan, Chennai
Forthcoming
To be published soon
History of Idea of India as 'Mother of Democracy' by Sumit Guha
Ecological Crisis in the Himalayas by Ravi Chopra
Review of Harmony Siganporia's 'Walking from Dandi: In Search of Vikas' by Sudhir Chandra
Poetic Traditions and Inter-community Relations by Amit Basole
Reintroduction of the Cheetah by Raza Kazmi
The PMGKAY; India's wildlife management; Drug regulation in India; A child's prayer; & more
Indian Democracy’s Paradoxical Moment; Triumph of the Political Party in Public Office; Global Hunger Index: Misplaced Debate and Ignoring Priorities; and more
The turbulent future of higher education in India; Supreme Court's expansion of abortion rights; The first biography of George Fernandes; and more
