Society

Is this a coincidence that exactly 120 years ago, on this very day, Yesterday, Rabindranath Tagore wrote a poem "Deeno Daan". It was about a temple.

The Court granted anticipatory bail to the journalist who reported on policemen taking bribe and causing accident due to rash driving

In this interview from 1994, National Film Development Corporation (NFDC) former Chairman Ravi Gupta tells Communalism Combat co-editor Teesta Setavad, how he saw varying forms and degrees of not only religious, but also caste and class discrimination become apparant after the Babri Masjid demolition

How a corrosive refashioning of India took place in our personal and social spaces

Most publications and networks are either focusing on the ceremony or talking about Covid-19 concerns, artfully dodging its communal history

The Jammu & Kashmir Reading Room (KRR), a collective...

CJP had moved NHRC seeking protection for reporter who had exposed police inaction and possible cover-up in the case

Calling the Centre's plan “painful and saddening”, CM Palaniswami (AIDMK)—an ally of the ruling BJP-- has demanded a reconsideration of the three-language policy, with states being allowed the constitutional independence to implement their own, even as the opposition DMK has opposed the elite bias in the proposed policy changes

The National Education Policy, announced, without debate in Indian Parliament and without adequate inclusion of concerns and criticisms sent in by diverse Indian groups has raised several questions of concern, especially with related to access to education for all, democratisation of education, the language formula articulated, diversity concerns and worst of all, the all out privatisation of higher education. This note looks at the implications of the language policy in education as articulated in NEP 2020

A man accused of blasphemy and facing trial for...