A Cricket World Cup by India, for India, and about India

"The cricket played by the Indian team in CWC2023 has been the best among the cricket World Cups that India has hosted, thanks to the soaring performance of its players and the memories they have created. It has also been the most small-hearted and petty of the World Cups that India has hosted."▶16-Nov-2023
Sharda Ugra

December 1, 2023

On the Cricket World Cup 2023, Emergent India and its Sikh Diaspora, The question of academic freedom, and more

Against the Targeting of IIT Bombay Professor

IIT Bombay faculty statement against the recent attacks on and targeting of a colleague and social media posts with biased allegations.
▶14-Nov-2023
Faculty Forum IIT Bombay

Climate Damage: Who Pays and How

With the world in financial and economic flux, the spectre of climate finance will continue to unsettle the balance between shared responsibilities and increasingly divergent capacities to make the…
▶14-Nov-2023
Michael Dolan

The Question of Academic Freedom

Students when at the cusp of adulthood need to engage with a diversity of ideas. But longstanding structural constraints on university autonomy now have a new edge with state intervention that has a…
▶13-Nov-2023
Niraja Gopal Jayal
Book
Book Review

Underexplored Aspects of Vidyasagar in a New Translation

Ishvarchandra Vidyasagar’s polemic against polygamy among the Kulin Brahmins of colonial Bengal was published in Bengali in 1871. A rich and contextual English translation by Brian Hatcher offers new…
▶13-Nov-2023
Mahitosh Mandal
Book
NREGA: A Report on the States

Forcing Jharkhand’s Workers out of NREGA

In a poor state where NREGA can be a form of security for casual workers, reduced funding and the centre’s insistence on the use of inappropriate technologies, and an insensitive state bureaucracy…
▶09-Nov-2023
Siraj Dutta

Regressive Isolationism: American Reproductive Politics in the Twenty First Century

The legal quagmire in the US on access to abortion is generated by political design, crafted to ensure that the restitution of reproductive rights is a long-drawn-out process.
▶07-Nov-2023
Sanjam Ahluwalia, Dilofarid Miskinzod

Family Law Reforms After Marriage (In)Equality

The marriage equality verdict is a decisive break from the Supreme Court's rights-enhancing jurisprudence in the realm of gender. The new approach could adversely shape how the court approaches…
▶07-Nov-2023
Akshat Agarwal

The Business of News EP 5: Building a digital business & ad revenue

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 building a digital business and staying…
▶05-Nov-2023
The India Forum