Women who teach in colleges and universities in India on annual contracts have very little social security. They are often not eligible for paid maternity leave, which leaves them with the choice of…
To have a rational conversation about religious conversions in India, we have to carefully disentangle reason from rhetoric, cleanse key words of their emotive charge, subject arguments to logical…
Muslim women are in favour of gender-just laws, but Muslim women’s groups recognise that the women have to contest both the Muslim Personal Law and the politics around the demonisation of everything…
'Caste Pride' foregrounds the wide geography of legislative reform from before Independence with reference to caste, and points to the central role played by Dalit legislators in this…
Indians and Pakistanis are similar and yet different; similar in outlook and concerns but different because of the different paths their societies have taken. But if we define one in opposition to…
The nation celebrates with gusto the joys and exhilarations of sporting moments. But it falls silent when the powerful are interrogated for violating the rights of sportspersons under their care,…
The idea of Athens as mother of democracy was pushed by modern scholars of ancient Greece and Rome. Ancient Greek and Roman writers on India themselves found several similarities with political…
