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India’s middle‑class crisis: the great bifurcation and the Gen Z uprising
The student protests we have been witnessing in India can be explained in large part by the crisis facing the Indian middle class, marked in particular by graduate unemployment and a...
FIR Against Akhlaq’s Family Travesty of Justice, UP Govt Must Intervene
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UPDATE: The Uttar Pradesh(UP) police was quick to file...
The Nice attack and the corrosive effects of anxiety
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After Dalit Woman Performs Rituals, Temple Priest Performs ‘Purification’
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In yet another incident that reflects the exclusions and...
The filming of Rumi – Everybody’s darling
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Pushed Aside: Displaced for ‘Development’ in India
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Hindu Nationalists bent on Deletion of Word ‘Dalit’ from Textbooks in California Schools
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