The initiative is by Mumbai-based Future East Film, and will continue through the year with candidates interviewed every three months A three month paid-internship programme in film direction and production targeted specifically at the Dalit Bahujan and Adivasi (DBA) community […]
By Vidya Bhushan Rawat. “I don’t blame the police for what happens. It is the easiest way to target them who are deep distress. The real villain is the JNU administration as well as those ‘minds’ who are working over […]
The students made six demands in their statement to the administration, the first of which was a request to the IITM authorities and the Tamil Nadu police to conduct a fair investigation Students from IIT Madras held a protest on […]
Dalit and tribal bodies have called for a boycott of the products of Patanjali after Ramdev, the brand’s founder, allegedly accused Dalits, tribal communities, Muslims and the followers of the late Dravidian leader Periyar of spreading “intellectual terrorism”. A video […]
Vegetarians, far less vegans, let us be frank, would not like to be compelled to eat meat. Yet the reverse compulsion is what lurks in the current proposals for a new ‘planetary diet’. Nowhere is this more visible than in […]
THE veteran journalist S. Viswanathan, a former special correspondent of Frontline and former Readers’ Editor of The Hindu, passed away in Chennai on November 5 after a brief illness. He was 80. Born in Kandy in Sri Lanka, Viswanathan completed […]
NEW DELHI: India’s top court on Thursday delayed a verdict on the lifting of a centuries-old ban on women of menstruating age entering a Hindu temple, asking more judges to consider the case involving gender discrimination and religion that has […]
A top-notch archeologist, Prof Supriya Varma, who served as an observer during the excavation of the Babri Masjid site in early 2000s along with another archeologist, Jaya Menon, has controversially stated that not only was there “no temple under the […]
Muslim student Fatima Latif, who was studying in a first year of MA humanities and development studies (integrated), was found hanging in her hostel room at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras. The 19-year-old topper Muslim Girl Student has committed […]
‘Standing against the discrimination of depressed classes, a robust advocate of inter-caste marriages, who practices his knowledge of Sanskritagainst the religious power relies more on rural masses rather than his officials’ This excerpt from the confidential report of PS Krishnan, […]
