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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

Bina Paul: “Collective viewing is empowering”

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How Hate Crimes Destroy Old Friendships, Social Relations

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Central University of Kerala: OBCs get reservation after protests

Reservation for OBCs is mandatory in recruitment to universities and...

The Mechanism of Caste

With Independence Day only five weeks away, the Indian Cultural...

Fact Check: The RSS Had No Role in India’s Freedom Struggle

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Kemat Gawale, a Dalit rights activist’s seminal contribution in the field of education

Horrendous caste oppression will not end and Dalit emancipation...

Memories of Colonial Brutality: Irfan Habib on the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre

On April 13, 1919, the British government indiscriminately shot...

When and why JNUSU President Sai Balaji wrote an open letter to PM Modi

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Sabka Vishwas another jumla, Union Budget exposes Govt. apathy towards Minority youth

Minority word missing from Budget speech, allocation reduced for...

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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

Patna Police say the child was ‘rescued’ from a potentially dangerous crowd, while his parents allege that the family was taken to a police station, where they were assaulted and kept for nearly seven hours

The ‘Reservation Hatao Andolan’ Isn’t a Gen Z Uprising. It’s a Rerun

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.

112 Years Ago, Raksha Bandhan Stood for Hindu-Muslim Unity

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Eid Milad 2026: Processions, clashes and the politics of communal provocation across India

From Mumbai’s Parel-Chinchpokli belt to Bengaluru and Rajasthan, August 26 saw a series of confrontations, disputes and allegations of provocation around Eid-e-Milad processions