Bastar Needs You
Bastar. An abstract name of some strange place where there is Naxalism. And therefore a place to be avoided, to be dreaded and mostly ignored. Not a land of a […]
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A History of, and Response to, Disproportionate Violence
This post began life as an attempt to boost the response to the latest wave of targeted violence and/or State-sponsored suppression of civil liberties in Chhattisgarh. Even as I typed
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Does the argumentative Indian really exist?
The Indian socio-political space is polarized as never before. The religious and economic right wings came together in an unprecedented show of solidarity and gave India its first Prime Minister who
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JNU student Harshit Agarwal on JNU protests and arrests
Harshit Agarwal, student of JNU for 2.5 years and eyewitness to the events that unfolded after the protest by DSU on the Jawaharlal Nehru University campus.
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Comprehending Rohith Vemula
To those ranting “Anti-national” jibes on Social media about Phd Scholar, #RohithVemula from the University of Hyderabad who committed suicide last Sunday evening, let us try and understand what Rohith
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Objections to the Proposed Draft Environment Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2015
To, The Secretary, Ministry of Environment, Forests & Climate Change Govt. of India Subject: Objections to the Proposed Draft Environment Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2015 Dear Sir, With due respect
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Indian media un-noticed lakhs celebrating Dhammachakra Pravartan Din
Dhammachakra Pravartan Din at Deekshabhoomi “I have no Motherland’ Ambedkar once said to Gandhi, in frustration following the treatment dalits received in 20th Century. However, even if today an educated chunk belonging
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A suggestion for upcoming news and opinion websites and blogs
Mainstream media websites are obsessed with the outdated idea of not linking out to content. This is a tactic from the last decade and serves no useful purpose. The
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Keeping count of dissenting voices
Writers Speak Up against the Unmaking of India “A distinguished Kannada writer and Sahitya Akademi Award winner, M.M. Kalburgi, and two Maharashtrians, Narendra Dabholkar and Govind Pansare, both anti-superstition activists,
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