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India’s founding fathers and mothers contributed in multiple ways to the establishment of democracy in the country. Some of those mentioned by the prime…
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The globalised semiconductor industry is witnessing plans to build ‘national’ industries. For its part, India, must secure its place in the microchip value…
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What can the US judicial overturning of Roe v Wade tell us about reproductive decision-making and the law in India? Our histories might be different, yet they…
▶05-Jul-2022
India’s punitive demolitions bear striking resemblance to Israel’s tactics against Palestinians. The tragedy is that a significant chunk of the majority in…
▶21-Jun-2022
On the need to safeguard India's liberal values and protect it from crony capitalism.
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Entrenching Impunity, Peddling Justice for Rape: A Case for Feminist Civil Liberties | Vrinda Grover
On the police and extrajudicial action in cases of rape and other forms of sexual violence against women.
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How was the heterogenic environment of Telangana crucial to shaping its rationalistic culture? How unique is its personality?
▶1 hr 17 min
What are the changes and challenges in the operating ecosystem of the NGOs, which operate in a state-market continuum?
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In the last episode of this season, SV Srinivas speaks about hypermasculinity and violence in films like Kabir Singh and Pushpa.
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In the third episode of our latest podcast exploring films, Madhava Prasad discusses 'cinepolitics' in south India.
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In the second episode of our new season exploring films, Ritika Kaushik discusses the state's role in film-making and distribution.
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We speak with Shrayana Bhattacharya about what film icons can tell us about intimacy and women's independence.
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A photo essay on the struggles of Indians in cities and towns for existence and dignity as they negotiate their lives every day.
▶16-Sep-2022
Sahir's lyrics for the Hindi film 'Didi' (1959) continue to have great contemporary relevance.
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Conversations between writers across India reveal similar processes of marginalisation spanning multiple communities. These insights offer ways for mutually…
▶05-Jul-2022
What can social science researchers discover if they stepped out of rigid frameworks of understanding deprivation and asked ‘subjects’ about their joys and…
▶04-May-2022
Letters
Deafening Silence
It is really unfortunate that the Census is being given a quiet burial.
I am equally intrigued by the complete silence of the Opposition on this issue.
▶05-Sep-2022
Padmini Swaminathan, Chennai
Nehru and Hindutva in the North East
In his review of Arkotong Longkumer’s book, The Greater India Experiment: Hindutva and the Northeast, Richard Kamei has enlightened us about the penetration of…
▶31-Aug-2022
Arup Kumar Sen , Kolkata
Pusillanimous Govt. of India
This article on the WTO and India’s stand at the recent 12th ministerial conference is excellent; it is well argued and does not shy away from calling a spade…
▶27-Jul-2022
SP Shukla Former Member, Planning Commission and Former Secretary, Finance, Govt of India
Eurocentric digital material
Furqan Qamar makes some very pertinent points about the challenge of a digital university. I would like to add that existing social science and health-related…
▶20-Jul-2022
Sushrut Jadhav, UCL Division of Psychiatry, UK
Forthcoming
To be published soon
Future of Liberalism in India by Shruti Kapila
Modifying the Wildlife Protection Act by Nitin Sekar and others
Review of Harmony Siganporia's 'Walking from Dandi: In Search of Vikas' by Sudhir Chandra
Poetic Traditions and Inter-community Relations by Amit Basole
Higher Education in India by Satish Deshpande
The Social Experience of Heat; The Smoke and Mirrors of Casteism in the US; The New Hindi-Hindu-Hindustan Debate; and more
The disruption in higher education in India; Hindutva in Karnataka; Karnataka Hijab Ban; and more
Making sense of Covid-19 death estimates in India; The end of a political model in UP; Kashmir: Loss, memory and a shared history
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