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Jamnalal Bajaj, The Fifth Son

Every great movement is remembered through its iconic leaders, yet its deepest foundations are often laid by those who choose to surrender privilege in the service of a larger...

Training to Hate: The Ekal Vidyalaya Way

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Style and prejudice

The profound irony of Aamir is that it depicts...

Phantasms of the living

No one strives for truth in cinema because reality...

Building a character

On Shaurya and the weakening secular fabric of India’s...

The role of a lifetime

Actor Naseeruddin Shah discusses the vagaries of religion, the...

A certain magic

The invaluable contribution of communist writers and poets to...

Murder and mayhem

 ​Orissa: The sangh parivar’s reach for a Hindu state "We...

Living the nightmare

  A first-person account of the anti-Christian attacks in Kandhamal:...

Losing my identity

Diary: Touring Modi’s ‘vibrant’ GujaratMy plane landed at Ahmedabad...

Epistemological hijab

Islamic legalism veils the Muslim woman’s consciousness, it dehumanises...

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