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‘We Cannot Be Afraid’: Rhiya Ahir in Conversation with Teesta Setalvad

What does it mean to stand beside young people when they choose to confront power?In this conversation, activist and journalist Teesta Setalvad speaks with Rhiya Ahir, whose act of...

How Brahmins Negated The Progress of India

In my earlier article “Shudras Built The Indus Valley...

Beneath the glitter – Looking at The Asian Games

Does it amaze you when you hear the stories...

Umar Khalid and the Hate Republic

Umar Khalid, a Ph D scholar of Jawaharlal Nehru...

IIT Kanpur demands immediate release their alumni Sudha Bharadwaj and others

Sudha Bharadwaj, a trade unionist and one of those...

In Kashmir, Police adopts Israeli strategy to ‘nab’ protesters

Srinagar: In a strange turn of events, officials of...

Why do some Indians both oppose Reservation and burn the Constitution?

The dual attack by a section, relatively entitled in...

Upper Caste ‘Bharat Bandh’ – In Defence of Dalit Atrocities

The bandh fizzled out but the politics behind it...

67% Unlawful Activities Prevention Act Cases Ended In Acquittal/Discharge

Mumbai: Two-thirds of trials completed under a 51-year-old law...

Yet Another Communal Game Plan of the BJP: A Private Members Bill to Deport ‘Intruders”

The Illegal Immigrants (Identification and Deportation Bill, 2018 tabled...

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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.

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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

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

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