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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...

BHU Students Suspension Revoked, Criminal Cases by VC & Admin Stayed: SC

Agitating students of the Banaras Hindu University (BHU) scored...

Skewed Student-Teacher Ratio: Maharashtra

2.40 lakh Student’s Decrease and 2912 Teacher’s Increase In Maharashtra  Primary...

India 2016-17: The silencing of journalists

First Published on: May 4,  2017As attacks on journalists...

In Bangladesh, Govt Treats Journalism As a Crime: Amnesty

Bangladesh media faces more restrictions now than ever, Amnesty’s...

Bangladesh: Fighting Radicalism Without Guns

Experts say massive educational reform and social initiative is...

Students are Raising Questions the State Doesn’t Want to Hear

Amid a timid media, weak political opposition, and restrictions...

New Policy Would Have Kept Me Out of JNU: Dalit PhD Scholar

My achievement as a student coming from a government...

Facebook’s new anti-fake news strategy is not going to work – but something else might

Facebook’s strategy is vacuous, evanescent, lip service; a public...

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The abrupt postponement of TISS' annual convocation, reportedly amid fears of protests during Chief Justice Surya Kant's visit, reflects a growing tendency to suppress anticipated dissent rather than accommodate it