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The khadi he wore, the Gandhi he kept: A Dalit memoir that refuses easy answers

Recently, I received a message from someone I had known since my Gandhinagar days, when I represented the Times of India from 1997 to 2012. He wanted to send me the...

Diversity Threatened: 177 Cases of Violence against Christians in 2015

State impunity that combines science across the political spectrum...

संघ और भाजपा का राष्ट्रवादी पाखंड

अफजल गुरु जेएनयू में आतंकवादी है, लेकिन भाजपा पीडीपी...

Treat Dalit Women as Equals before the Law: Radhika Vemula on Women’s Day

Last year, on the 118th Death Anniversary of Savitribai...

Just listen to Kanhaiya!

  The media calls him “idealistic” because he believes that...

Citizens Appeal to the SC for Suo Motu Action against Hate Speech

  Former judges and IPS officers, jurists, scientists and businessmen...

Democracy, Nationalism and Nazism

  The recent events in Hyderabad and Jawaharlal Nehru universities...

Dalits, Adivasis off the Radar: NDA II Budget

A total of Rs 75,764 crore has been denied...

‘How Opportunistic and Irreponsible can you get, Madame Irani?’

An Open Letter from the SC/ST Teachers’ Forum &...

‘What is happening in India today is similar to the McCarthy era’: Partha Chatterjee

There is something ominously new in the manner in...

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