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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

Women’s march on April 4 to vote against fear and hatred

Women activists and concerned citizens from India have announced...

Outrage over Maharashtra Congress nominating candidate with Sanatan Sanstha links

Sanatan Sanstha, a right-wing organisation whose alleged workers are...

Massive public-private partnership investment in infrastructure: For whom and for what?

It is being emphasised quite often that the infrastructure...

Employment: The Truth Behind Modi’s Lies

The Modi govt.’s disastrous economic policies have pushed India...

Difference Between Saffron Nationalism and Bhagat Singh’s Patriotism

For the longest time, majority of the people of...

Will the New Zealand gun law changes prevent future mass shootings?

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Declaring March 15 as International Day of Islamophobia after Christchurch Mosque attack

“Will it serve the purpose in curbing growing wave...

Bhagat Singh and the Assembly Bombing of 1929

When, after the Chauri Chaura incident in 1922, Mohandas...

Are the Yeddy Diaries Forged?

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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