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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...

No Entry for the New Sun

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Pakistan: Ideological illusions

Sixty years of PakistanPakistan with its newly emerging society...

Pakistan: Requiem for a tradition

Classical music is languishing in PakistanClassical music is standing...

Pakistan: We sinful women

New standard-bearers of progressive Urdu poetry: The feminist poetsAnyone...

Pakistan: Report what?

Simple answers, complex situationsAnis Haroon, the well-known women’s rights...

The growing ‘democratic deficit’

Sixty years of indifference and the throttling of the...

Shadows & silence

The Indian media turns a deaf ear to issues...

The protest of poor marginalised people is not considered news

  Siddharth Vardarajan           Courtesy: The HinduIt...

Massacre in Maharashtra

Kherlanji massacre: September 2006​Dalit killings in Kherlanji The murder of...

Caste out

Dalits and Dalit issues are largely absent in the...

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