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A Small Leap Forward: Chhattisgarh, Mining, Democracy and Gumipal

The year 2026 marks a century of mining in Chhattisgarh. In 1926, mining began at the Jhagrakhand colliery in the erstwhile princely state of Korea. Over the next hundred...

The End of Impunity: Gujarat 2002

Photo Credit: Binita DesaiThe struggle of man (or woman)...

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

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

Vilification from the apolitical: The Dreyfus Affair and the case against JNU: Joyojeet Pal

Photo: Courtesy csuohio.eduThe notion that we are a different,...

ABVP: In the footsteps of Pakistan’s Islami Jamiat-e-Talaba; ominously so

The unfolding Modi-BJP-RSS-ABVP nexus in India is but a...

Consolidated Solidarity Statements in Support of JNU

by Sunalini KumarWe are consolidating the statements received in...

Look Who’s Talking! Hate speech can’t be free speech, says Jaitley

  In Parliament on Thursday Union finance minister, Arun Jaitley...

Reflections on JNU, India and Pakistan

Image: dnaindia.comThe ongoing row at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) reminded...

Who Gets to Fund Higher Education? A Hindu Nationalist Donor Raises Controversy

Last year, the University of California at Irvine (UCI)...

Teach RSS the Constitution, Mr Prime Minister

First Published on: February 12, 2016Modi to address the...

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Rajya Sabha passes Vande Mataram bill as NCRB data reveals high pendency, low convictions

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