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Maharashtra’s schools are struggling to survive as students protest, infrastructure crumbles and Marathi-medium institutions disappear

From Adivasi students on hunger strike to Class 10 students demanding teachers, government schools without electricity and internet, and hundreds of schools facing the loss of grant-in-aid, Maharashtra’s education crisis is increasingly visible on the streets

Foreign Journalists asked to “leave” Assam, post NRC, state declared “protected area”

Assam has suddenly been placed under the “protected area...

My First Lessons in Diversity, the Ganesh Chaturthi celebrations at Mangalore college

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O GANESHA! – Part 2

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Ludhiana is where the heart still beats, simple tales of humanity and brotherhood

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What’s in a Name: Why re-naming of Feroze Shah Kotla Stadium furthers an Agenda

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Who is Sant Ravidas and why are his devotees agitating? Pardeep Attri provides background

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Kashmir Blackout: In Conversation with Anuradha Bhasin

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History, Mythology and India’s Syncretic Past

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Maharashtra’s schools are struggling to survive as students protest, infrastructure crumbles and Marathi-medium institutions disappear

From Adivasi students on hunger strike to Class 10 students demanding teachers, government schools without electricity and internet, and hundreds of schools facing the loss of grant-in-aid, Maharashtra’s education crisis is increasingly visible on the streets

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Six-year-old detained during Patna teacher aspirants’ protest, parents allege police assault

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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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