by Anupama Souri Das
Introduction
The commoditisation of higher education has gained acceptance in recent years. Profit, which was supposed to be illegal in education, has now legally entered into higher education. There has been a paradigm (...)
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Privatisation and Higher Education in India
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Has the End of the Indian Democratic-Secular Polity Begun?
12 November 2018by Shamsul Islam
India, sadly, is witnessing the Hindutva juggernaut running amok crushing whatever was democratic, liberal and egalitarian in the Indian polity. The RSS, as the charioteer, is not ashamed of this vicious campaign; instead, it is (...) -
Lights of Moscow / After Indira Gandhi
12 November 2018, by Nikhil ChakravarttyFrom N.C.’s Writings
November 7 this year marked the 101st anniversary of the October Revolution. To commemorate that occasion we are reproducing the following piece written by N.C. in Mainstream fiftyfive years ago on November 9, 1963 recalling (...) -
Battle of Karbala Revisited
12 November 2018BOOK REVIEW
by K.S. Subramanian
Ocean of Melancholy: The Tragedy that was Karbala by Mir Mosharraf Hossain; Niyogi Books, New Delhi; 2018; Price: Rs 395.
The battle of Karbala in Iraq in 680 CE was a watershed in the historical development of (...) -
Twin Birds at Bay: The Economics Nobel Prize for 2018
12 November 2018by Atanu Sengupta and Sanjoy De
Introduction
TheNobel Memorial Prize for Economic Sciences was started from 1969. It was a rather late realisation of the donors of the prestigious accreditation. Controversies arose from the beginning. Some said (...) -
Colonial Discourse in Kashmir: Revisiting the Role of Robert Thorp
12 November 2018by Mohammad Ashraf Khwaja
Robert Thorp, a British Army officer, is believed to have visited Kashmir as a tourist in 1865 when Maharaja Ranbir Singh was the ruler of the state. A theory is being developed by some ‘Thorp sympathisers’ that he was (...) -
Need for People’s Mobilisation on Land Reforms
12 November 2018COMMUNICATION
On October 2, the Gandhi Jayanti Day, nearly 25,000 landless rural workers and adivasi peasants from various parts of India assembled at Gwalior and a huge meeting on land-related issues was organised as a part of a wider (...) -
Transgender Bill: Exploring the Fault Lines and Suggesting Remedies
12 November 2018by Shubham Kumar and Shubham Patel
“I am what I am, so take me as I am.”
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1. Introduction
Transgenders, as defined in National Legal Services Authority v. Union of India (NALSA), are “male and female cross-dressers (...) -
Foremost Task before us Today
3 November 2018, by SCEDITORIAL
As the air quality in the Capital touches “severe” levels with a toxic haze hanging over Delhi with citizens residing in the National Capital Region experiencing burning sensation in the eyes, nose and throat, October 31—an important (...) -
Justice At Last!
3 November 2018COMMENTARY
After more than 31 years justice has at long last been delivered in the 1987 Hashimpura massacre of 42 Muslim men who were shot dead in cold blood by policemen belonging to the UP Provincial Armed Constabulary. What is noteworthy is (...)
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