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Harsh Mander: ‘Pushback’ at gunpoint – the Hindutva-BJP project of manufacturing statelessness
If you are a working-class Muslim in India today and speak Bengali, you are likely to …
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‘The Great Grand Superhero’ review: Aliens meet hilarious kids and a sporting granddad
The Adarsh Vidya Mandir school in a small town has a new student. Dipu (Mihir Godbole)…
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How false trafficking charges led to detention of hundreds of Bihar children going to madrasas
Two days after Kiswar Jahan sent off her 15-year-old son Irfan Shaikh to a madrasa in …
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Bengal CM says 30 lakh women ineligible for cash transfer scheme
Approximately 30 lakh beneficiaries of Lakshmi Bhandar, a cash transfer scheme for wo…
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Apps were meant to streamline Anganwadi data, but they’re depriving some workers of benefits
In August 2025, I made it a point to meet with Anganwadi workers (AWW) across several …
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‘Let me die at home’: Back from Bangladesh, an Assam woman struggles to recover from ‘pushback’
When she saw me walking into her home in Assam’s Barpeta district, Amina Begum attempt…
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This book of queer writing argues that a history of casteism and racism ossified homophobia in India
In 1884, an unusual case came up before the colonial Allahabad High Court. For months,…
