by Binoy Viswam
Campuses all over the world have been breeding grounds of ideas and activism. How can one forget the student activism in Paris that frightened the French ruling class in the 1960s? During the Vietnam war, campuses in the US were (...)
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First-generation Learners at JNU are Beacons of Hope for their Communities
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Why Higher Education should be Subsidised
8 December 2019by Khalid Khan
The ongoing protest against the hike in hostel fee has again triggered a series of questions on the Jawaharlal Nehru University which is closely related to the debate on privatisation of higher education. The larger narrative (...) -
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World: The Holy Cow in India and the Global Inability to End Terrorism
8 December 2019by Partha S. Ghosh
Why choose the title of a 1963 American comedy to headline this month’s column? At first glance, the plot of It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World has nothing to do with what I am going to discuss. And yet, in one essential sense, (...) -
Mahatma Gandhi’s Ram-Rahim Approach for Inter-religious Harmony
8 December 2019by Jayanta Kumar Dab
Mahatma Gandhi, during his public career, advanced inter-religious cooperation. He found that necessary because the core of religious teaching is love and kindness. According to Gandhi, “All religions teach that we should all (...) -
Statues of Clay
8 December 2019by Murzban Jal
There is a famous saying that when two fight, the third profits. The Brahmans thus divided the shudras and the atishudras and now are enjoying themselves at the cost of the shudras.
—Jotiba Phule, Slavery
There is a great need for (...) -
India is not quite yet a Hindu Rashtra: 70th Constitution Day
8 December 2019by Aurobindo Ghose
In January 2018, four top Supreme Court Judges in a surprise move, held a press conference declaring that “Democracy is at stake, and we have a debt to the nation”. Justice Ranjan Gogoi, as he then was, had also remarked that (...) -
A Lesson for Consul General Sandeep Chakravorty: Diplomacy is About Not Saying the Wrong Thing
8 December 2019, by Nyla Ali KhanIt is detrimental to democracy when the Consul General of India in New York, Sandeep Chakravorty, asserts that in order to facilitate the return of the displaced Pandit community, India will build settlements in Kashmir.
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Hard-Earned Rights of Construction Workers are Badly Threatened
8 December 2019, by Bharat DograCOMMUNICATION
After a long struggle of almost two decades two important laws for the welfare and social security of construction workers were enacted in 1996. These provided for a cess of one per cent to be imposed on construction works which (...) -
A Letter to B.R. Ambedkar
8 December 2019by Inamul Haq
The following letter has been written in a competition organised by the Department of Social Sciences, Central University of Gujarat on Constitution Day (November 26, 2019). It was awarded the first prize.
Jai Bhim!
I do not know (...) -
Weakening the Bonds
5 November 2019, by SC