Was the Emergency just a forerunner of what an authoritarian state could achieve?
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Bollywood has churned out a slew of biopics in the last decade, most of them formulaic. The latest among them, Kangana Ranaut-starrer Emergency, is yet to find a release date
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Bhindranwale was able to get away with wrongdoings because ‘in the eyes of the Congress leadership in Delhi, Punjab had a Sikh problem since Independence’
In Outlook’s next issue, we dive into what went on in those 22 months of Emergency: How did civil society react to the clampdown, and how did journalists and activists resist censorship? We also look into Kangana Ranaut's directorial venture on the theme
Despite being under scrutiny during the Emergency, small journals like Himmat Weekly got around censorship by taking calculated risks
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The caste census is generating heated debate, but even its most ardent proponents are not able to articulate a plan about how to use the resulting data
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While the NDA allies and social justice party leaders like Chirag Paswan and Ramdas Athawale have opposed the Supreme Court decision allowing sub-categorisation among SC-STs, the Opposition parties including the Congress have maintained a strategic silence.
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Carry out the caste survey objectively, carefully and sensitively, with the right spirit, so that the benefits of reservation reach the deserving beneficiaries
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Union Minister Chirag Paswan had voiced concerns about the recent Supreme Court verdict permitting sub-categorisation of SCs and STs for reservation. He speaks to Outlook on the caste dynamics in his home state of Bihar
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The recent SC judgement on sub-categorisation is against the constitutional mandate
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The sub-categorisation debate has taken an interesting turn after the Bharat Bandh, with different political parties and factions adopting varied stances
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Distinct from quick technical solutions offered by the judiciary, the Dalit-Bahujan movements have suggested new momentum and reforms in the agenda of social justice
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Hindu nationalists demand the denial of reservations to Christian and Muslim tribals even as they pursue their own 'reconversion' drive
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The recent SC ruling on sub-classification within the SC and ST categories temporarily lifted the hopes of tribal communities in Jharkhand
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The mainstream society thinks reservations are against right to equality. It’s high time they are seen in the context of right to justice
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A lot has changed in the last 75 years of the history of Indian democracy, but the upper caste mentality remains the same
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Among Manipur's tribals, there is a fear that the tenuous unity achieved after years of inter and intra-tribal rivalry and bloodshed could be undone by sub-categorisation in reservation
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Long before the rise of Bahujan politics in the north, the public sphere of Tamil Nadu was shaped by affirmative action aimed at social justice
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After OBCs were granted a 27 per cent quota and reservations in local self-government bodies, the Maratha agitation against reservation based on social backwardness took a U-turn
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The proposed sub-categorised reservation may have limited impact on addressing sub-caste inequality in representation and development
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Although the Muslims in India share a few basic Islamic precepts, and in times of extreme communal crisis, act as a single religious community, they are in normal conditions both horizontally and vertically divided vis-à-vis their socially constitutive categories
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A leader of Omar Abdullah’s stature removing his topi to appeal for votes reflects the intense pressure of the current political climate
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Actor-director Rajat Kapoor's adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov, Karamjale Brothers, retains the original’s story and spirit but unfolds in a hilarious, quasi-farcical tone
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The widely differing balance of power between the military and civilian leadership in India and Pakistan has significantly impacted democracy in the two countries
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These poems by Smita Sahay speak about how her experience is intertwined with the coal mines and coal miners of Jharia
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Actor-director Rajat Kapoor's adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov, Karamjale Brothers, retains the original’s story and spirit but unfolds in a hilarious, quasi-farcical tone
Comprising six plays and several open-air performances, the event — directed and performed by women — displayed stirring art and defiance
Devotion to pure gratuitous shock renders the Nithari killings-inspired film coldly impersonal and questionable
Actor-director Rajat Kapoor's adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov, Karamjale Brothers, retains the original’s story and spirit but unfolds in a hilarious, quasi-farcical tone
Comprising six plays and several open-air performances, the event — directed and performed by women — displayed stirring art and defiance
This slow burn sinks quickly under tired, hamstrung-by-dullness writing.
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Over the last few years, Kangana Ranaut has been an absolutist’s nightmare. A fine actor, who routinely sprays genocidal sermons, she has tested the most fair-minded folks.
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Post-2014, Bollywood’s political films have been a bit too enamoured by the Emergency and the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. However, the trauma from these events is being used to funnel ideology
Kangana Ranaut-led Emergency got embroiled in a massive controversy after Sikh organisations accused it of misrepresenting the community by distorting facts.
Bollywood has churned out a slew of biopics in the last decade, most of them formulaic. The latest among them, Kangana Ranaut-starrer Emergency, is yet to find a release date
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