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Gandhi and Tagore: Reverence, Argument and Intellectual Courage

The CJP protests at Jantar Mantar have brought back echoes of the Gandhian tradition of sustained people oriented struggles. Beyond the speeches and slogans, they have revealed how enduring...

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The real clash of civilisations

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Batra’s Textbook Project: Undoing Democratic-Secular India, the RSS Way

The RSS brigade is fond of ‘surgical strikes’. Though,...

Hashtag Waah/ #Waah / #Manto

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Israel is losing the battle for public opinion thanks to honest journalists, and platforms like Mondoweiss

Journalist Jonathan Cook (Screenshot: Vimeo/Jonathan Cook)   Over the last several...

A Man of Science is No More: professor Yashpal

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EPW Community “appalled” by decisions of Board Members of Sameeksha Trust

Open letter by members of the EPW Community addressed...

Even Murdoch, the Media Moghul would not have acted the way EPW Trustees did : Ex-Editor Reddy

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