The immediate backdrop to the recent showdown at Jawaharlal Nehru University lay in earlier tensions
Azim Premji University in Bengaluru has shown that even institutions created specifically to resist ideological capture cannot withstand the sustained assault on academic freedom by the current regime
BY Anand Teltumbde 5 March 2026
The uproar over the University Grants Commission (Promotion of Equity in Higher Education Institutions) Regulations, 2026, is a revealing moment in India’s uneasy engagement with caste.
BY Anand Teltumbde 11 February 2026
We became victims of two things—unjust investigation and a media trial that was used as a weapon. The Media Trial was Deeply Painful.
BY Anand Teltumbde 19 January 2026
What is on display is not moral authority, constitutional discipline, or respect for international law, but the naked exercise of imperial power.
BY Anand Teltumbde 6 January 2026
The Kuldeep Singh Sengar court order is not just a judgement—it’s an indication of where the Republic stands.
BY Anand Teltumbde 5 January 2026
It is a structural transformation of how nuclear risk, responsibility, and power are distributed in Indian society.
BY Anand Teltumbde 18 December 2025
A deep dive into the neoliberal architecture of India’s insurance liberalisation
BY Anand Teltumbde 17 December 2025
India’s federation endured not because its design guaranteed balance, but because earlier governments exercised restraint
BY Anand Teltumbde 16 December 2025
Historians will likely see this bill as educational subjugation, not reform.
BY Anand Teltumbde 13 December 2025
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