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Historic Victory at Panjab University, but Federalism Remains at Stake
At a time when the BJP is forcefully implementing the New Education Policy (NEP) 2020 to advance a neoliberal, imperialist agenda of centralisation, privatisation, and saffronisation—branding all dissent as...
Power, Patronage, and Protest: The Making of AMUSU’s Opportunism
Every Saint has a Past and Every Sinner has a Future
The Solipsism of Faith: A Response to Talha Mannan
The author, himself a student of AMU explores the complex dynamic between culture, civilization and political identity, arguing that when religion becomes the rallying cry for the latter, a tendency towards theocratic authoritarianism (communalism) emerges, that also, inevitably impacts gender sensitivity and equity; Iqbal also poses sharp questions to organisations like the Jamaat-e-Islaami Hind (JIH) on state, gender relations etc.
Muslim Education in Uttar Pradesh: Pathways to Inclusion and Reform
A limited community imagination and an absence of political will together have pushed a community, UP’s Muslims, once a leader in social, political and cultural life of the region, to marginalisation; the author examines solutions
NCERT’s ‘Partition Horrors’: A brazen exercise in white-washing the ‘crimes’ of the Hindu Mahasabha & RSS
In this detailed essay, exposing the five falsehoods behind the NCERT’s recent module on Partition, the author, a historian and writer in fact exposes the axis of the far right, Hindu and Muslim, Hindu Mahasabha, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and Jinnah, and the collusion with the British that got India Partitioned
Rewriting NCERT school textbooks: ‘Muslim Raj’ is a mere excuse, the project is to conceal historical facts
The majoritarian Hindutva (not Hindu) project is to conceal the truth, Muslim bashing merely comes in handy
Distortions in the syllabus of history books, an uncomfortable perspective
The normalisation of an everyday majoritarianism, Neo-Hindutva, has been facilitated by the silence of the Muslim liberal; an urgent challenge is being able to move out of the confines to reaffirm wider processes of secularization as a counter
The Culture of Impunity at SAU, the University That Expelled Me
It felt good to freely roam the institution that...
Institutional Murder in Odisha: A Student sets herself on fire to be heard
After months of ignored complaints and threats, a 20-year-old woman self-immolates in front of her principal’s office—an act of final protest against sexual harassment and institutional apathy
Funds Withheld, Futures on Hold: Dalit, OBC, Minority students face scholarship crisis amidst delays and cuts
A sudden funding freeze leaves dozens of marginalised students in limbo, exposing deepening cracks in the government’s commitment to educational justice
Whither SCOPE? Twelve years on, Gujarat’s official English remains frozen in time
While writing my previous blog on how and why...
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