'A culture where the rights of women and sexual and gender minorities can be wholly erased without even having to defend such a move clearly shows where the centre of power lies, and how it…
The state’s administrative, legal, and judicial systems institutionalise bias, rendering marginalisation of minorities an entrenched aspect of governance.
There is much that India can learn from Germany's remembrance of the Holocaust, though the insensitivity towards the Palestinians is a smear. Germany too can learn from India, for while India…
The strongest dowry murder rates in India correlate with skewed sex ratios – mainly in the North. These rates have fallen fastest where bride shortages are most severe. Hopefully, this signals a…
While fare-free schemes for urban public transport ease financial barriers on mobility, their real impact is in empowering women through better city access. An analysis of Delhi’s free bus scheme…
Since it was created in 2015, NITI Aayog has neither been able to offer fresh thinking on the economy nor has it functioned as a a mediator between the centre and the states. A federal institution…
Israel's wholesale erasure of all forms of regular Palestinian life in the Gaza strip includes the specific targeting of educational institutions and their staff. The ruination of the education…
M.T. Vasudevan Nair’s works captured generational angst and an uneasy nostalgia for a fading matrilineal past. He directed ‘Nirmalyam’, a groundbreaking film, and as editor of ‘Mathrubhoomi Weekly’,…
Haryana's social and political landscape is in the midst of a transition, with both backward castes and the younger generation of Jats seeking to break away from the old agrarian order. So far,…
