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The Metamorphic Resistance: Mahmoud Darwish, Resilience (Sumud), and the Architecture of Survival

If you are not rain, my love,be a tree sated with fertility, be a tree.And if you are not a tree, my love, be stone saturated with humidity, be stone.And...

The battle for Indian Federalism: Government of NCT of Delhi vs. Union of India

The Union government digs its heels in, issued a notification giving primacy to the Lieutenant Governor in transfer and postings of civil servants serving the Delhi Government.

Karnataka Budget 2023-24: CM announces Rs. 4 lakh life & accident insurance policy for gig workers

Another promise delivered, govt. aims to address the persistent demands raise by the union, establish a social security net for gig workers

2023 Karnataka assembly elections: what has BJP lost and what has it gained?

It was the combined cards of Communalism, Caste politics, Operation Kamala and Huge Money to woo voters that helped the BJP increase its vote share; much to celebrate but much more needs to be done

Bombs or guns, violence mars Bengal’s rural polls, now a 17-year-old boy dies in crude bomb explosion, 5 arrested

In a familiar pattern that has continued over decades, a staggering 16 people have been killed in various incidents of political violence since the announcement of the rural poll schedule on June 8, barely a month ago. The panchayat elections are scheduled for Saturday July 8 with the counting on July 11.

Professor Imtiaz Ahmad Valued Intellectual Honesty over Everything Else

He threw political correctness to the winds, which resulted in his being sidelined by the political and academic establishments

Assam: Resistance to Evictions Echoes over Silsako Beel

The people belonging to lower socio-economic strata ultimately bear the brunt of the government’s long-term apathy followed by drastic and arguably destructive measures.

“The Modi Regime can and will be defeated”: Oxford University Union Debate

In June 2023 the Oxford University Union held a...

J’khand: BJP promises NRC, makes dubious claims of “infiltration” in tribal areas

After the party loss in the state’s Assembly election in 2019, it is arming itself with a divisive campaign for the upcoming state election in 2024

MHA authorises Registrar General to authenticate Aadhar for birth and death registration

This will enable the Registrar's office to authenticate Aadhar cards of those registering the death and birth

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From FIRs to “Corporate Jihad”: How the TCS Nashik case was transformed from an investigation into a communal narrative

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