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, by ROY Jhelum
ON AUGUST 14, 2024 at 11:55 pm, the streets of Bengal, usually deserted by this hour, were packed with Indian women claiming their half of the sky. At the approach of the country’s 77th “Independence Day” celebration they made the night their own by demanding an end to the rape culture that (…)
, by Scroll Staff
The university asked students not to ‘fall prey to fake messages and misleading rumours’ and advised them to attend classes.
Claiming that Jamia Millia Islamia university has suspended 17 students for protesting disciplinary action against two PhD scholars, the Left-affiliated All India (…)
, by MAHAPRASHASTA Ajoy Ashirwad
The AAP forced the BJP to change its own electoral narrative that trashed the former’s welfarist approach as “revdi culture (freebies culture)” and instead imitated Kejriwal’s politics in the 2025 polls.
New Delhi: After remaining out of power for 27 long years, even in the years when Narendra (…)
, by Pakistan India Peoples’ Forum for Peace & Democracy
Born: 8.6.1946 Died: 30.01.2025
Tapan Kumar Bose, renowned documentary film-maker, human rights and peace activist known across South Asia, is no more. Tapan breathed his last at his home in New Delhi in the morning of Martyr’s Day (Shahadat Diwas), 30th January 2025.
For most of his life, (…)
, by SINGH Karthik
We express our solidarity with Jagjit Singh Dallewal, a farmer leader of Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) Non-Political, whose hunger strike to death has now passed 60 days. We support his pursuit of a legally guaranteed implementation of a universal Minimum Support Price (MSP) and other demands of (…)
, by ARUN M.A.
To counter this event, a coalition of over 50 progressive organisations is organising a three-day event named the ‘Bahutva Samskruthi Utsava’.
Bengaluru: The Kottala Basaveshwara Education Society runs a dozen schools and colleges, including a tailoring class and a gym, in Kalaburagi district (…)
, by PATEL Suchak
India is currently benefiting from a large working-age population. However, by 2050, the elderly will make up more than 20% of the total population. The UN Population Fund’s India Ageing Report from 2023 predicts that by 2046, there will be more elderly people than children aged 0 to 15. This (…)
, by The Wire (IN)
New Delhi: The third quarter of the 2024-2025 financial year is likely to see a dent in banks’ earnings due to slippages from unsecured loans, mainly in the microfinance sector.
A slippage happens when a borrower does not pay an agreed-upon amount towards resolving their bank loan for 90 days (…)
, by The Wire (IN)
A total of 515 delegates participated in the convention, including 443 women and 72 men, from 15 districts across Maharashtra.
New Delhi: The All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS), Maharashtra, held its first-ever women farmers’ state convention, a progressive step for a male-dominated field where few (…)
, by ALAM Shahrukh, KULRIYA Mukesh
“We must assess the lack of diversity in our police force – religious, caste, gender and sexual diversity are almost non-existent,” says advocate Shahrukh Alam.
Music has a complex relationship with social discord in India. While there is a long tradition of music bridging diversity and (…)
, by The Wire (IN)
’Using a low poverty line threshold, that too in data that possibly contains an upward bias we still found that more than one in four Indians lives in poverty.’
New Delhi: Claims that poverty has almost disappeared in India are misleading and take attention away from the lack of data on the (…)
, by IMSD
Indian Muslims for Secular Democracy (IMSD) does not support the call by certain Muslim organisations for a re-ban on Salman Rushdie’s book Satanic Verses.
IMSD calls upon Muslims to recall the views expressed by Sir Syed Ahmad Khan well over a century ago. In his time, he staunchly opposed (…)
, by JANMOHAMED Zahir
In Ways of Remembering: Law, Cinema and Collective Memory in the New India, Oishik Sircar analyses the judgment in the Best Bakery case and examines the plots of three Hindi films released after the 2002 Gujarat pogrom.
On March 24, 2002, while living in Ahmedabad, I received an invitation to (…)
, by CHANDHOKE Neera
The philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) reminded us that though man is born free, he is everywhere in chains. The inference is that we break one chain, and others arise to strike us on the face. Consider that August 1947 brought India freedom. But along with old moribund traditions, (…)
, by Radical Socialist (India)
That the overwhelming majority of the Indian intelligentsia, the middle class and the ‘Commentariat’, given their general political-moral make-up, should now be singing the praises of former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh after his demise, is not at all surprising. But the proper evaluation of (…)
, by BHALLA Vineet
The cognitive dissonance of being able to see the humanity in hateful people.
“I’m sure you don’t actually mean that,” I told Sonu Jat, slightly bewildered. “You are a good, decent person.”
Jat had just told me, in a rare, unguarded moment, that he would be ready to kill anyone who (…)
, by SEKHSARIA Pankaj
For reasons I cannot quite explain, there are two things I remember distinctly about 1984 even though I was only in my early teens then. The first is a visit to my grandmother’s in Calcutta (now Kolkata) for our annual Diwali sojourn. The annual, sometimes biannual, train journey across the (…)
, by GUPTA Vivek
Chandigarh: A group of 101 farmers who were trying to march to Delhi from the Shambhu point of the Ambala-Delhi Highway managed to overcome three layers of obstructions, including mesh wires, on Friday (December 6) but were ultimately stopped by the concrete barricades erected by security forces (…)
, by KRISHNAN Kavita
Aleksandr Dugin, a prominent Putinist ideologue from Russia, was in Delhi last week.
There has been no critical scrutiny of his visit among political analysts, intellectuals, and democratic rights activists. This is an indifference we can ill afford.
Dugin represents a global ideological (…)
, by PATNAIK Prabhat
He was a pioneer who re-established on a firmer footing the propositions first advanced by the Indian nationalist writers, and in the process illuminated with extraordinary clarity the workings of imperialism in producing underdevelopment.
Professor Amiya Kumar Bagchi, who passed away on (…)
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