Dalit Bahujan Adivasi

A people on the brink: The fight to protect the Shompen of Great Nicobar

India’s tribal communities have long lived at the margins of society, shaped by histories of displacement, fragile livelihoods and limited access to essential services. Among them, the Particularly Vulnerable...

Secularism: a mere mantra?

The conduct of parties, political pundits and the print...

‘Caste is a precious gift’

  The caste system receives generous treatment in Indian textbooks....

Demonising Christianity, Islam

Courtesy: christcov.orgIn a chapter titled, ‘ Problems of the...

‘Sati was a virtue’

The authors of Indian textbooks retain an extremely ambivalent...

Ancient India as Hindu

There is a clear and underlying assumption that the...

Breeding Bigotry

The NCERT’s National Steering Committee on text-book evaluation found...

A historian sans blinkers

The late scholar and historian, Dr. Bishambhar Nath Pande’s...

Don’t blame Rabri, Laloo

No mainline political party, including the Rashtriya Janata Dal,...

Indonesia? Indonesia!

Months of communal and ethnic violence rip the social...

Reflections of a Crusader

For 38 years, since way back in 1961 when...

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