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The script of democracy: Power, language, and consciousness in Dhoomil’s ‘Patakatha’
Sudama Pandey 'Dhoomil's "Patakatha" ("The Script") stands as one of the most searching poetic examinations of Indian democracy ever written. Rather than chronicling political events, the poem delves into...
Jharkhand BJP leader gets ration from Antyodaya, claims being MNREGA labour, while Savitri starves to death after being denied Antyodaya card
48-year-old Mahadev Dubey, vice-president of BJP's Giridih Chapter despite owning a two-storey building, works as MNREGA labour, and also gets ration from Antyodaya card, both Dubey and Savitri belong to same assembly segment
2019 polls: ECIL seeks disclosure of information on EVM, VVPAT; BEL, EC equivocate under RTI Act
BEL unit, BengaluruReaders may remember reading my despatch from...
‘Indians Less Charitable Than Asian Counterparts’
Mumbai: India ranked 82nd among 128 countries for generosity...
JNU Protest: May Have to Quit After Fee Hike, Say Students
The students allege that the new hostel manual approved by the administration proposes 400% hike and recommends curfew timings.
Students, Cops clash at JNU on convocation
Students have been protesting against the fee hike that was ordered without consulting them
Thousands throng to Tipu’s tomb on his birth anniversary
Srirangpatana saw heavy security arrangements to maintain law and order
Once debarred from NRC, Hitesh Dev Sharma in charge of new NRC Coordinator
Guwahati, November 11, 2019: Hitesh Dev Sharma former joint...
Will English help bring the margins into the mainstream?
Andhra Pradesh CM says English will now be the medium of instruction from class I to VI, Telugu will be a compulsory subject
The game of hits and misses: crackdown on “illegal” immigrants
With the Karnataka police on a politically driven “mission” to detain “illegal immigrants” the exercise is in all likelihood going to determine into an anti-Bengali or anti-outsider statement, allowing regional parochialism to raise its ugly head, even as citizens get mindlessly targeted
Assam’s flood affected victims still waiting for compensation
Bureaucratic red-tapism and not lack of funds is the cause of the delay
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