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Tikender Singh Panwar As world leaders were holding hectic negotiations over climate change at COP26 in Glasgow in November, there was a subtle protest by the inhabitants of Kinnaur district, in the Himalayas, against the impact on the ecology and… Continue Reading →
Venkitesh Ramakrishnan The Sangh Parivar’s famililar tactic of communal polarisation does not seem to be yielding the expected dividends in the run-up to the 2022 Assembly elections, forcing the ruling dispensation to harp on the ‘security breach’ involving the Prime… Continue Reading →
January 8, 2022 1 Author Aram GoudsouzianBizot Family Professor of History, University of Memphis In the summer of 1967, Martin Luther King Jr. introduced the keynote speaker for the 10th-anniversary convention banquet of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Their guest, he… Continue Reading →
The upcoming elections in three Indian states will be a contest between the BJP’s polarizing, violent, Islamaphobic messages and efforts to create a more plural, more democratic India Vijay Prashad Jan 2022 A bizarre event took place in northern India between… Continue Reading →
By Harsh Thakor* The farmers’ spirit, elevated and reverberated at a boiling point in Ferozpur like a spark turning into a prairie fire, appears to be behind Prime Minister Narinder Modi having being compelled to retreat to Delhi due to a… Continue Reading →
News Desk 8 Jan 2022 Add New Post olice books Muzzammil Ayyub under UAPA News Desk 8 Jan 2022 Srinagar: Police on Saturday said that a case been registered against Muzzammil Ayyub Thakur under Section 13 UAPA (Unlawful Activities… Continue Reading →
New analysis bolsters idea that country’s seemingly low death rate was misleading JAN 2022 BYJON COHEN India, from the earliest days of the pandemic, has reported far fewer COVID-19 deaths than expected given the toll elsewhere—an apparent death “paradox” that some believed was… Continue Reading →
Classroom norms are changing. Where’s the line, and who decides? By Emma Pettit Erica Cope admits it wasn’t a great lesson. In the fall of 2020, Cope, like faculty members across the country, was teaching virtually, from her kitchen table. None… Continue Reading →
Adivasi human rights defender and environmental activist Hidme Markam has been unjustly lodged in Jagdalpur Central Jail, Chhattisgarh since 9th March, 2021. It would soon be a year of her arbitrary incarceration, without even bail being granted. As a mark of… Continue Reading →
A Mumbai-based woman has moved the Supreme Court against an order passed by the Bombay High Court in 2021 that laid down guidelines to protect the identities of the parties involved in proceedings under the POSH Act. Vidya MumbaiJanuary 6, 2022… Continue Reading →