Whitewashing Dissent!
This tells a story from an “Institute of National Importance” – an account of a distressing whitewashing that reflects the current state of free speech in a country boasting itself...
Forlorn Graves:Ather’s Unfinished Journey Home
On the cold winter evening of December 2020, I and M were walking along the Jhelum Bund complaining about how cold it was. After a while, the conversation shifted to...
Revoke the Case Against Maktoob Journalist: Kerala Needs More Dialogue on Policing in Fascist Times
After the blast at the Jehovah's Witness that has so far claimed the lives of 6 people at the Kochi center, the police had shortly detained two youths who were...
Bhopal Gas Tragedy and the Dilution of Environmental Impact Assessment
On the fateful night of 2nd December, 1984, deadly gas Methyl isocyanate (MIC) was leaked in the densely populated area of Bhopal from the factory premises of a pesticide company,...
Why is Darwin’s Theory of Evolution an Anathema to the Religionists?- Part III
[In part 2, the author explained how fossil records pointed to the fact that many more living beings have gone extinct as compared to the ones existing. This dealt a...
The UP Model of Violence
The recent upheavals at Banaras Hindu University (BHU), English and Foreign Languages University (EFLU), and Kalakshetra have laid bare a disturbing reality within educational institutions. These incidents, particularly the molestation...
Navigating the Murky Waters of Education: The Impact of NEP on Karnataka’s Diploma Students
In a groundbreaking move, Karnataka became the first state in the country to implement the National Education Policy (NEP). However, as the academic year unfolds, diploma engineering students found themselves...
Communal Riots And Their Solutions
[6th December marks 21 years of the Babri demolition. In the run-up to the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, we see both an economic and cultural attack on dif erent socio-economically...
The Undying Legacy of the Kakori Martyrs
“The food on which the tender plant of liberty thrives is the blood of the martyr.” - from Manifesto of the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association On December 17th and 19th...
Forlorn Graves: Ather’s Unfinished Journey Home
On the cold winter evening of December 2020, I and M were walking along the Jhelum Bund complaining about how cold it was. After a while, the conversation shifted to...