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A new book looks at how movements for civil liberties have developed in India
“Coming of age in the 1960s and the 1970s, we were witness from a distance to the Naxa…
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Why the Trinamool Congress is collapsing like a house of cards
“The more you torture us in Bengal, the more problems you will face in Delhi,” former …
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How philosopher KC Bhattacharyya appealed for liberation from British ‘cultural subjection’
Any discussion of Indian “culture” per se is strewn with landmines. Let me expand on t…
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A Sangh organisation is leading the demand that Christian tribals be delisted
On May 24, lakhs of members of Scheduled Tribe communities from across India gathered …
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This book asks why Kerala, long ruled by the Left, has not succeeded in annihilating caste
In his 1936 Annihilation of Caste , the Dalit leader, philosopher, and lawyer Bhimrao …
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Start the week with a film: Cult thriller ‘13 Tzameti’ is a nerve-wracking game of chance
The title of Georgian director Gela Babluani’s cult film 13 Tzameti is a redundancy: …
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How India’s ambitious plan to curb unhealthy food failed
Two six-month-old babies – one in London, the other in Delhi – are both fed Nestlé Cer…
