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Face must be visible, then hijab, burqa, dupatta or attire of choice permitted to TET candidates: MCSE
This clarification from the Maharashtra State Council of Examination (MSCE) came days after the council’s directive for the June 28 examination; the initial instructions stated that candidates will not be allowed to wear items such as dupattas, burqas, masks and caps inside examination centres which triggered a debate among teachers and various social groups
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From India‘s Forgotten Feminist, Savitribai Phule to life partner Jyotiba
Historic Victory at Panjab University, but Federalism Remains at Stake
At a time when the BJP is forcefully implementing...
Over-centralisation, Unaccountability, Political Considerations & Control: Stakeholders critique the VBSA 2025
At a press conference held on December 15, 2025, Monday, over two dozen organisations and fronts working on higher education have critiqued the Viksit Bharat Shiksha Adhikshan Bill 2025 pointing out how this proposed law marks a structural shift to dismantle public funded higher education
How the Supreme Court built a binding legal framework to protect student mental heath
In a case where the father of a NEET aspirant sought fair investigation into the suspicious death of his daughter, the SC in a pivotal July 2025 ruling, apart from intervening on that question went further: in establishing a comprehensive, binding legal framework to protect student mental health across India. An analysis of the Supreme Court judgment in Sukdeb Saha v. State of Andhra Pradesh & Ors.
Is AMU, a Vatican of India’s reactionary Muslim elite?
Continuing an active debate around the dominant politics at the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) this former student questions the latent arcane exclusivism that is affecting both quality, representation and diversity within
Knives in schoolbags, hatred in classrooms: The dark lessons of Ahmedabad’s Maninagar
The recent ghastly incident in Ahmedabad's sprawling Maninagar (East)...
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
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PRC, SIR and a BJP Hawk Shobha Karandlaje!
BJP’s fake nationalism and congress’s half-hearted response
Communalism
Weaponising religion, manufacturing distrust
From fabricated conspiracies to viral misinformation, repeated attempts to falsely implicate Muslims reveal how communal narratives are systematically manufactured and amplified
Rights
‘Attack on democratic rights’: Rights groups denounce Pranab Doley’s arrest
Forum for Social Harmony, AMSU-AIKMS and BAA accuse the Assam government of criminalising land rights activism
Dalit Bahujan Adivasi
Who is afraid of Stan Swamy? And why?
Political economist, Parakala Prabhakar delivered the Father Stan Swamy Memorial Lecture, St. Patrick’s High School, Secunderabad July 11, 2026; we reproduce the entire text of the lecture below
Rule of Law
SC remands 27 citizenship cases, reaffirms constitutional fairness
Holds that while Section 9 applies, foreigner status must be determined through a lawful and reasonable process