The act of marking carries historical baggage. If India wants to mark those infected with coronavirus, it must think of sensible ways that don’t outlive the crisis. By TARAN DEOL In his weekly Mann Ki Baat address, PM Narendra Modi […]
The footsoldiers from the non-elite caste are simply grist to the Hindutva mill. Caste Roots of Delhi Violence: A Lesser-Known Phenomenon The anti-Muslim violence that erupted in Delhi in late February has shaken the country. Analysts are burning midnight oil […]
Government policies compensate only the landowner, while the sharecropper, who has borne much of the expense and labour for the crop, gets nothing. Bundelkhand, Uttar Pradesh: On March 12, dozens ofvillages in the Chitrakut district, Bundelkhand in Uttar Pradesh were […]
Many Dalits feel that the BJP made promises that won it their support, but its actions once in power seem clearly anti-Dalit. Espousing Kanshi Ram’s principle of ‘Bahujan hitaya, bahujan sukhaya’, the formation of the Azad Samaj Party (ASP) by […]
A task force set up by the MP government in 2019 may help resolve the issue, which covers an area equal to 20 times the size of Mumbai. Betul (Madhya Pradesh): Ramsingh Nagvanshi has never considered himself a forest dweller. […]
23rd March Pakistan resolution day Pakistan and India currently stand poles apart in ideologies and now, in even the perception of international observers with regards to both domestic, and foreign policy-related actions. Pakistan has extended the hand of peace far […]
While the latest coronavirus pandemic rages across the world, India has been no exception to its march. To contain the spread of COVID-19, the Narendra Modi government invoked the 1897 Epidemic Diseases Act which the Britishers had framed to deal […]
It was a case that rocked the conscience of the nation. An influential businessman in Hyderabad, Maruthi Rao, got his daughter’s husband killed by hired goons. The young man, Pranay Perumalla, was hacked to death in front of his pregnant […]
Coronavirus has saturated our news feed, social media and daily conversations. Even the ‘Good Morning‘ messages that unnecessarily flood our WhatsApp every morning have gotten an additional tagline, “Wash your hands, be safe.” The entire globe seems to be at […]
In his seminal article on the fundamentally political relationship between cinema and the state, Prof. M. Madhava Prasad of the English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, termed the cinematic apparatus (including the image and the audience) as a “microcosm of […]
