The ‘Shaheen Bagh’ activism of women draws upon Ambedkar’s legacy to make connections between the attack on the citizenship of Muslims and the slide back in constitutional values.
In the past 75 years a community of Urdu magazines that used to be read by the entire family has disappeared unmourned, so too their journalists and readers. There is also now no major Urdu newspaper…
Fascist parties have gained support the world over, even in European nations where they were once disavowed. A 'New Despotism' has emerged, which uses the trappings of democracy to…
Global investors and institutions have been hyping up the prospects for Indian economic growth in the medium term, but there is no evidence within India that the service sector and certainly not the…
Muslim women respond to political trauma by exercising their citizenship and care work beyond the family. Their activism is not driven by patriarchal indoctrination, but by a belief that one cannot…
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 you are rooting for an Indian…
It was the maelstrom among the 1970s generation of students at the Film and Television Institute of India that could yield an epic like ‘Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron’.
"'We the People' need to stand up to collectively raise their voices and demand that the central government and its functionaries stop the public attacks on the collegium and the…
It would be wrong to use present-day norms to label certain historical events as crimes. If we must judge the past, it should be in relation to its time, rather than our present.
