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Listening to the Soil : Dr Sangeeta Jawla’s Lyrical Revolt in Clay

By merging the mystic poetry of Kabir with the gritty reality of manual labour, she invites her audience to move past the romanticised image of “folk craft” and confront...

Manipur is Burning but who cares?

In this impassioned and well researched piece, the writer a vocal human rights activist lists the long line of abdication by the Indian state since the north-eastern state of Manipur erupted in violence, visibly since May 3, 2023

Despite efforts, three delegations from violence-struck Manipur failed to meet PM Modi

Two sets of BJP MLAs from Manipur have been camping in New Delhi for the past five days, since June 15 to meet the PM, who has now left for the US today.

The loneliness of being Imtiaz Ahmad

The Muslim elite disown him for talking caste and the Hindu right-wing abuses him for his uncompromising stance on secularism, writes Abhay Kumar

Eddelu Karnataka, understanding a unique civil society experiment: K’taka assembly polls

The author, a senior activist and vital part of the Karnataka civil society experiment in the 2023 state assembly elections, documents the experience and journey in a four-part exploration

Many takers for ‘Mohabbat ki Dukaan’ in Mumbai

The Congress party is celebrating Rahul Gandhi’s birthday on June 19 by setting up a shop of love across the city

Uniform Civil Code Or Codified Personal Law?

In the background of a bunch of writ petitions...

Manipur Is Burning Because of BJP’s Divisive Politics: Civil Society Groups

"Both the central and the state government are weaponising the constitutional provisions to destroy concepts of democratic dialogue, federalism and safeguarding of human rights.”

Key challenge for Siddaramiah’s Congress Govt: review NEP, its “health & wellbeing” policy

The union government’s controversial NEP, adopted by the erstwhile BJP-led Karnataka government institutionalises discrimination and dogma in education, it’s important to document concerns around it before it becomes a template for other states. Although the stated objective of the paper is to illustrate the importance of health, it embroils itself in irrational and unscientific propaganda that can be disastrous within an educational space.  

K’taka to repeal BJP’s controversial anti-conversion law; to remove Hedgewar from textbooks

Lessons on KB Hedgewar and Savarkar to be removed from textbooks, Poem on Ambedkar re-inserted

Biden administration should press Indian Prime Minister on media freedom during his visit: CPJ

An online discussion just before he Prime Minister’s visit to the United States, June 14, brings live the crucial issue of press freedom in India; India ranked 11th on CPJ’s 2022 impunity index, with unsolved cases of at least 20 journalists killed in retaliation for their work from September 1, 2012, to August 31, 2022.

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