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The Ambedkarite Champ: 15-year-old Vandan Sawai defeats chess great Magnus Carlsen

Delhi Class X student beat Magnus Carlsen in an online blitz game after returning from a six-week Europe trip; his parents learnt about the result later from his Chess.com profile

How Maharashtra, Karnataka & Tamil Nadu Use Outdated State Laws To Acquire Land

New Delhi: Maharashtra and Karnataka are using decades-old land...

Protest letters to President, PM from prominent citizens: Kashmir situation ‘unacceptable’

A group of 284 eminent Indian citizens – including...

Cost of defending citizenship post NRC north of Rs 11,000 crores!

Guwahati, 5 September, 2019: Even as the government, both...

#SaveAarey protest: SC to hear matter Suo Motu,: 29 protesters released on bail

A special bench of the Supreme Court has been...

Aarey: Tree-cutting continues, sec 144 imposed, protesters arrested and denied bail

The indiscriminate felling of trees that began in Aarey...

Focus on Environment, Health and Education instead of Politics of Hate

Filmmaker Kavita Lankesh talks about the things we should...

India’s ‘grave’ water crisis a result of misallocation, mispricing, mismanagement

According to NITI (of Government of India) Report (June...

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The Ambedkarite Champ: 15-year-old Vandan Sawai defeats chess great Magnus Carlsen

Delhi Class X student beat Magnus Carlsen in an online blitz game after returning from a six-week Europe trip; his parents learnt about the result later from his Chess.com profile

Six-year-old detained during Patna teacher aspirants’ protest, parents allege police assault

Patna Police say the child was ‘rescued’ from a potentially dangerous crowd, while his parents allege that the family was taken to a police station, where they were assaulted and kept for nearly seven hours

The ‘Reservation Hatao Andolan’ Isn’t a Gen Z Uprising. It’s a Rerun

The demand to “remove reservation” is one of the oldest, most recycled slogans in independent India’s political life, and it has failed, in more or less identical form, every single time it has been tried.

112 Years Ago, Raksha Bandhan Stood for Hindu-Muslim Unity

Day after, August 9, 2017 will be 75 years of the Quit India Movement. On August 9, 1942 the Quit India (Chodo Bharat) slogan was given from Mumbai after the Indian National Congress passed the resolution on the agitation on August 7, 1942.

Eid Milad 2026: Processions, clashes and the politics of communal provocation across India

From Mumbai’s Parel-Chinchpokli belt to Bengaluru and Rajasthan, August 26 saw a series of confrontations, disputes and allegations of provocation around Eid-e-Milad processions

Pradip Prabhu, who brought hope to the oppressed, is no more

An academic activist, Pradip Prabhu worked among Adivasis as also contributed to academia and path-breaking legislation for indigenous land rights