Education

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

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

The majoritarian Hindutva (not Hindu) project is to conceal the truth, Muslim bashing merely comes in handy

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

It felt good to freely roam the institution that...

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

A sudden funding freeze leaves dozens of marginalised students in limbo, exposing deepening cracks in the government’s commitment to educational justice

While writing my previous blog on how and why...

Bench grants interim stay as it find substance in petitioner’s arguments against State’s move to impose SC/ST/OBC quotas on open seats in minority colleges

That the announcement of inclusion of the Manusmriti was withdrawn days after it was first proclaimed, illustrates the impact of the protests against its inclusion: Earlier, the objective of the course stated that “ancient Indian society, in terms of whole and its parts, has been depicted in the texts compiled in Sanskrit known as Dharmashastra.”