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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

India Not On Track To Reach 2025 Nutrition Targets Or Achieve Zero Hunger By 2030

Bangkok: Increased food security and access has led to...

The Truth Behind Bulandshahr Violence, Explains Urmilesh

The violence erupted following suspicion of alleged cow slaughter.In...

Hate pamphlets circulated before Rajasthan elections

As people wait in anxiety over election results of...

Why the ‘Me Too’ movement in India is succeeding at last

Centuries of entrenched patriarchy cannot be upturned in a...

B.R.Ambedkar and Electoral Politics: A Relook

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on December 6, 2018. in...

Sacred Cows, Disposable Humans

The Bulandshahr mob killings show that the Hindutva Supremacist...

Who will Gau Mata bless in the Rajasthan Elections?

As Rajasthan goes to polls, one wonders if the...

To defeat the far right means to differentiate it from historical fascism

To win the battle against the far right, the...

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