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Women: Nation builders, missing from the nation’s books
An exploration of the path-breaking verdict delivered by the SC declaring “housewives as nation-builders”[1]. The author, an academic explores, academically and historically, how societies and nations have only imagined economies and valued production through narrow prisms while feminist scholars have spent decades challenging this hierarchy; the real challenge that the June 11 judgement throws is whether we are prepared for a substantive re-set and re-construct
Zee News asked to pay 1 lakh fine, apologise to poet, scientist Gauhar Raza for maligning him as “anti-national”
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Open Letter to the President of India from former Chief of Indian Navy, Admiral L Ramdas
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In Dera Sacha Sauda, the Burden of History
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Traders Move HC on Manual Scavenger Death: Bombay HC
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Turning History of India’s Struggle Upside Down & Inside Out, the RSS Way
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The Myth of Black Money Being Hit Returns to Haunt the Regime
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PM’s BimaYojana Scheme Benefits the Privates
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Narendra Modi’s flagship programme, Bima Yojana (PMFBY) is not...
Private Lives and Public Law: How the Privacy Judgement Bats for the Individual and the Collective
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Mumbai Meri Jaan: All Faiths Unite to Provide Succour
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Photo Courtesy: Indian ExpressEven as early morning warnings (Tuesday,...
This Day Five Years Ago, Justice was Done & a Former Minister Convicted of Murder and Rioting: Naroda Patiya Case
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