There is a country within India which is forgotten, wilfully forgotten, and whenever the marginal people of that forgotten land try to announce and assert their existence, they are brutally suppressed and subjugated; this is. . .
[ A Review of Sudha Bharadwaj’s book 'From Phansi Yard: My Year with the Women of Yerawada' (Juggernaut Publication, 2023)] ‘So Madam, what exactly is your case?’, asked the bewildered police constable sitting cozily in. . .
Devanur Mahadeva’s booklet, ‘RSS -Aala Mattu Agala’ (RSS- its ‘Depth and Width) is making waves in Karnataka. In Karnataka the aggressiveness of Hindutva forces is at its peak. It has launched sustained campaigns provoking anti. . .
Since the birth of modern education, State has always tried to influence the field of pedagogy. The School serves as a place where State first tries to turn citizens into obedient subjects. The Turkish film. . .
A serious public discussion about the history of science is rare in India, rarer still is a TV series which is based on important junctures and personalities involved in the history of science of Independent. . .
Wanderers, Kings, Merchants: The Story of India Through Its Languages, by Peggy Mohan, published Penguin Books, April 2021 Is it possible to write the history of a nation through its languages? This is what distinguished. . .
India’s Undeclared Emergency: Constitution and the Politics of Resistance by Arvind Narrain, published by Imprint Context, Westland Publications Limited, January 2022. Arvind Narrain not only walks us through a granular history of the Emergency, but. . .
“In order to uphold democracy, there will be times one must be authoritarian.” These are the remarks of a police officer in T. J. Gnanavel’s film Jai Bhim, not mine. It is not really a. . .
The political terrain in Assam and the conditions that led to the drafting of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) have often been euphemistically referred to as ‘complex’, a term that barely captures the anxiety. . .