First-generation Learners at JNU are Beacons of Hope for their Communities
by Binoy ViswamCampuses all over the world have been breeding grounds of ideas and activism. How can one forget the student activism in Paris that frightened the French ruling class in the 1960s?...
View ArticleRCEP — Domestic Compulsions Outweigh Global Commitments
by Mahendra VedWhile announcing that it was not joining the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partner-ship (RCEP) “for now”, India has rightly indicated that it was postponing the decision. It must join,...
View ArticleIndia Exits the RCEP: What Happens Next?
by Kavaljit SinghOn November 4, India announced its decision to exit the negotiations on the proposed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) —a mega-regional free trade agreement. Prime...
View ArticleIslamophobia: What's Common between Payal Tadvi and Fathima Latif
by Ram PuniyaniLately committing of suicide in higher places of learning has been in the news more often than before. Most of the victims belong to the Dalits, Adivaisis in particular, while a few...
View ArticleHuman Rights: Basic Issues / Not Sorrow but Atonement
Human Rights Day is observed on December 10 every year commemorating the day, in 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. To mark the occasion we are...
View ArticleGrim Warning from Bhopal
From N.C.'s WritingsIt was a massacre of innocents by all counts. What happened at the Union Carbide plant at Bhopal in the early morning of December 3 was not just a tragedy but a heinous crime which...
View ArticleHow Indian Society is Failing all its Women and Humanity as a Whole
by Ayushi GolwaraA woman boards a Delhi Metro at 11.20 pm, sees around and gets to know that there are only five men in that metro and NO woman. She regrets it the entire time, that why did she not see...
View ArticleBJP Is Not India
Just five years in power have made the BJP so arrogant, so intolerant and so haughty! These five years have inflated its oversized collective ego so much that it has started equating itself with India,...
View ArticleDividing the Nation on Communal Lines
EDITORIALToday is December 5, 2019. Four months ago, on August 5, 2019 the Articles 370 and 35A of the Constitution were revoked and severe restrictions were imposed on Kashmir and Kashmiris residing...
View ArticleAll is not Lost
All is not lost.The young still feel the stingOf oppression.Setting aside the quiescentCounsel of terrified time,They rise, singing a defiant rhyme.Women, dragged by the hair,Lead the march of...
View ArticleIdentifying the Role of Fairness Doctrine in promoting Local Accountability...
by Sonia MalikAbstractThe Fairness Doctrine is a mechanism that imposes affirmative responsibilities on a broadcaster to issue airspace to discuss the problems of public importance that is important...
View ArticleThe Idea of Belongingness and Citizenship
by Anujaya KrishnaThe Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019 (“Amendment”) passed by both Houses of Parliament recently is an epitome of discrimination, not ‘reasonable classification'. It was tabled as a...
View ArticleUnderstanding Development through a Gendered Lens
BOOK REVIEWby Vishwa NathWomen and Development: Issues and Challenges by Rekha Kaul and Anita Malhotra (eds): Elite Publishing House, New Delhi; 2018; pp. 216; Rs 995Recently, on November 25, the world...
View ArticlePre-and Post-Legalities of Police Encounter: Perspective of Hyderabad Incident
by Ahmed RazaThe recent encounter by the Hyderabad cops during the investigation process of rape and murder of a vet doctor tempted no of question-marks on the legalities of the encounter. The inhuman,...
View ArticleMahatma Gandhi's }Ahimsa {as a Science of Love and Social Action
by Divya NairImpure means result in an impure end. Hence, prince and the peasant will not be equalled by cutting off the prince's head, nor can the process of cutting off equalise the employer and the...
View ArticleTalking Faiz: ‘In this Hour of Madness'
Academician, writer and social activist Zaheer Ali is in Conversation with Subhash Gatade about his latest book ‘Romancing With Revolution : Life and Works of Faiz Ahmed Faiz' (Aakar Books, Delhi,...
View ArticleA Blueprint for Protecting Small Farmers
In most parts of the world farmers are in distress, soil quality is deteriorating rapidly, farm animals/birds are suffering, sustainablity is in crisis and food is less safe. The overall drift is...
View ArticleUttering the Unthinkable, Bizarre Outburst
MUSINGSDon't know how today's rulers can go on condemning terrorism at the various national and international forums, when they have a terror accused sitting right inside Parliament! Obviously, Sadhvi...
View ArticleOn the Centenary of the Amritsar Congress (December 1919 - December 2019)
The new Act... ignores the insistent demand of the country for a Declaration of Rights... A feature of the Act which has disappointed me much is the failure to do justice to the political rights of...
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Has Indian School Curriculum Neglected the Modernisation of Mind?
by Arup MaharatnaThe following is a piece based on one chapter of the author's recent book titled, The Indian Metamorphosis: Essays on its Enlightenment, Education and Society, Singapore: Palgrave...
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