Dr Shreerang Godbole The Khilafat Movement (1919-1924) refers to the ferment among Indian Muslims consequent to the threatened dismemberment of the Turkish Ottoman Empire and the abolition of the Turkish Caliphate at the end of the World War I. The […]
By Zafar Aziz Chaudhry In the current budget, to discourage the use of sub-standard skin-whitening creams, the government has proposed a five-year jail, and Rs 50 lakh fine for ads promoting fair skin. This is because, in sub-standard skin-whitening creams, […]
By Shubham Sharma India at the time of its independence made a provision to reserve around 22 per cent of the seats in education and government jobs. The lawmakers did this with an intention to uplift the socially marginalised class of […]
‘Dalits’ are no longer the most disadvantaged in India, though this is because there are others who fare worse In a mostly dark-skinned nation, who are our “blacks”? Who are India’s worst off? Who are the country’s equivalent of African-Americans? […]
By Sumit Pande Adecade of political upheaval was finally settled with Indira Gandhi’s emphatic victory in Lok Sabha elections in the winter of 1980. Or so it seemed. The Janata Party had disintegrated; just like an amoeba. The Opposition was in […]
By Ram Puniyani* The #BlackLivesMatter protest saw a strange incident in the United States: Unknown miscreants vandalised the statue of Mahatma Gandhi outside the Indian embassy in Washington DC with graffiti and spray paint. The incident took place on June […]
By Zaheer Located below the Eastern Express Highway, this historic enclave is everything most of Mumbai is not: idyllic, languid, and devoid of the city’s characteristic traffic. “Living here has given me a sense of belonging,” says the 30-year-old marketing […]
The Malabar rebellion, also called Mappila revolt, continues to be a contested and polarising event nearly a hundred years after it took place. It has now grabbed the headlines after a film project on one of the rebel leaders, Variyankunnathu […]
By Simi Kuriakose Recalling one of the many experiences of colourism he faced, 34-year-old Jeremy (name changed) talks about a childhood memory, “In fourth grade, representatives from a clothing brand visited school to cast ‘cute’ children in an ad. We were […]
New Delhi :Despite a lethargic leadership geared towards complete eradication of this menace, several strides have been made to counter the spread of Manual Scavenging. This practice is dated to hundreds of years ago. An act that primarily entails people […]
