By Simran Ahuja BENGALURU : A transgender mural artist, a gay songwriter, a child with special needs, a Dalit queer activist… A new music video by Sharif D Rangnekar features 30 people with different backgrounds, faith, skin tone, sexuality, age and […]
More than 80% of parents with children studying in government schools reported that education was “not delivered” during the lockdown, according to a new five-state survey conducted by the non-profit Oxfam India. In Bihar, 100% of the parents interviewed voiced […]
Indian democracy has been intensively analysed, debated and criticised. However, in India, democratic values, ways of thinking and practices are considered almost irrelevant. Democracy is limited to voting and government-formation. A democracy may not be electoral, but it can still […]
The Union government is set to introduce The Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation (Amendment) Bill, 2020 in the ongoing Monsoon Session of Parliament. The Bill proposes to completely mechanise sewer cleaning, introduce ways for ‘on-site’ protection […]
By Siraj Qureshi Ever since Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath has assumed charge, his primary focus has been on “restoring the Hindu supremacy” over the state, and it is evident from the flurry of name changes he has initiated […]
BY RUDRANI GUPTA In India, there are 80 women judges out of a total strength of 1,113 across various high courts and the Supreme Court. Women judges in India make up for 7.9 percent of the total strength of judges […]
By Poykayil Appachan At the NOME Gallery in Berlin, rubber runs like a leitmotif through the works on display. In one corner, a video, Unlearning Lessons From My Father, is projected across a stretched piece of rubber. In another space, […]
Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Savio Rodrigues, and Legal Editor, Shashank Shekhar Jha of GoaChronicle spoke with data scientist and IITian Sanjeev Newar, Founder, Agniveer over the controversial yet thought-provoking issue he has raised on the bias for Muslim candidates in UPSC […]
Janata Dal (Secular) leader HD Kumaraswamy on Wednesday, 16 September, pointed that the 16-member committee set up to study the country’’s culture for the past 12,000 years, did not have any women or South Indians who understood Dravidian history, as […]
In early September 2001, at the World Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Africa, Indian Dalit activists were desperately rallying support to get caste recognized as a manifestation of racism. The term Dalit, derived from the Sanskrit word for oppressed, […]
