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 […]
By Robin Gomes, The 90th anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi’s famous Salt March is being observed these days. Also known as the Dandi March, after the place where it ended, the march was an important event in the nonviolent civil disobedience […]
Though census across the globe is a tool for data collection to facilitate demographic study and application of the economic and social development aimed at overall national growth and prosperity, instances of exceptional abuses may not be unknown. India has […]
The trauma of an arbitrary Partition left Sindhis with no state of their own in independent India. It is a matter of no small pride that all Sindhis (not just Amils) have robustly settled wherever they could, supporting lesser endowed […]
The backlash he received simply exposes the level of denial in the industry. Every new idea and initiative meets with resistance. We have to find the courage take risks, even to fail, if the goal is worthwhile” – Kofi Annan […]
Baluta was the first daring attempt to tell the world, with brutal honesty, how sick it is and how sick it had made the one who wants to break free of himself and the world. By Yogesh Maitreya It was […]
The UK government has accepted India’s appeal against the closure of Ambedkar House in north London and said the memorial to the architect of the Indian Constitution will remain open to visitors. UK Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick confirmed that he […]
A category of women who have consistently been ignored in the popular imagination is the Dalit woman. Rarely are they a part of national conversations and public discourse around modern feminism and the gender justice demagoguery. Women’s day and other […]
The Palasa town is now a thriving business hub with hundreds of cashew processing units dotting the coastal town in north Andhra. But once, it was like most small towns across the country, facing neglect with people living in misery. […]
‘Draupathi’ is not blasé. It is explicit about the deepest fears whispered in intermediate caste fraternities and social media. Draupathi claims to be an indie Tamil film. It has no stars. Many of the actors, including the male lead, are wooden. […]
