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Why Indian Laws Need More Reforms To Provide Safe Abortions

While socio-economic and medical structural barriers continue to pose challenges, criminalisation of abortion through a restrictive legal framework creates a chilling effect on the willingness of medical practitioners to...

16 September 2022

The Tamil-Dravidian Framework As A Secular Antithesis To Hindi-Hindu-Hindustan

Hindi Diwas: The government should be concerned that the younger generation dislikes language imperialism


Gyanvapi Complex: History Of Kashi Vishwanath Temple, Its Present And Future

The wounds of history may heal if Muslims return Krishna Janmabhoomi and Kashi Vishwanath. It may open the doors to lasting amity between the two communities.


Paradox And Dilemma Of UP's Hindi Literati

Literature coming out of the state once celebrated communal harmony, but current political developments have exacerbated the paradox and dilemma of Hindi literati

14 September 2022

Hindi Chauvinism Hangs Like An Imperialist Spectre Over Rest Of India

Hindi Diwas: With Hindi being pushed by the Centre as Rashtra Bhasha, the spectre of language imperialism haunts the Indian Union


Salman Rushdie And The Iran Fatwa

How the author morphed into a purveyor of socio-political conflict and a catalyst for Muslim radicalisation

02 September 2022

The Malayali Loves Hindi, But Don't Take It As Acquiescence

Hindi Diwas: Even the otherwise Hindi-friendly Malayali rises to resi­st the imposition of Hindi on them

14 September 2022

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Konkani Sunrise: In Search Of The Soul Of Goa

If Goa’s official language sustained despite an attempted colonial wipe-out, there’s hope that people will find a way to preserve their Goan-ness irrespective of the ruling party

30 August 2022

19 August 2022
Virat Kohli's Loss Of Form: Why Good Form Or Writing Is Akin To Divine Intervention

Virat Kohli's Loss Of Form: Why Good Form Or Writing Is Akin To Divine Intervention

In the world of sports and writing, it is hard to explain even in life whether your luck shines because you work hard on your form, or whether your form...


19 August 2022
Why Virat Kohli May Have Played Into BCCI’s Hands

Why Virat Kohli May Have Played Into BCCI’s Hands

By announcing on Twitter that he was stepping down from the India T20 captaincy, he may have played into BCCI’s hands


19 August 2022
Are We Witnessing Virat Kohli's End In Cricket?

Are We Witnessing Virat Kohli's End In Cricket?

Physically, Virat Kohli doesn’t appear to be struggling, but as it often happens when you are out of form, the first mistake you make tends to be your last.


05 August 2022
Fake Encounters: Why Does Public Support Extrajudicial Killings In India?

Fake Encounters: Why Does Public Support Extrajudicial Killings In India?

Not only are fake ‘encounter’ killings by cops rampant across the country, they are wildly cheered by a people who have lost faith in the criminal justice...


22 July 2022
Elevator To The Burroughs: The Growing Housing Crisis In Mumbai

Elevator To The Burroughs: The Growing Housing Crisis In Mumbai

The Maximum City of Mumbai is groaning under its own weight as the metropolis continues to find ‘space’ to house all those who have made it their home


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21 July 2022
The Sainik’s Last Stand: Unease In The House Of Marathi Manoos

The Sainik’s Last Stand: Unease In The House Of Marathi Manoos

Nurtured over decades by an instinctive hatred of the Other, the Sainik on the streets today finds himself rudderless


22 July 2022
‘Singapores of Girangaon’: How Mumbai Mill Workers Are Fighting For A Home Amid The Real Estate Boom

‘Singapores of Girangaon’: How Mumbai Mill Workers Are Fighting For A Home Amid The Real Estate Boom

The history of GKSS, a trade union representing workers of closed textile mills of Mumbai, encapsulates the evolution of working class unity and class action...


23 July 2022
Bombay Rains And The Fascinating World Of Two Bollywood ‘Sound-makers’

Bombay Rains And The Fascinating World Of Two Bollywood ‘Sound-makers’

All the films that I have made, I have gone back to them. They are masters of their craft, and now they are superstars in their field. They don’t have time,...


18 July 2022
Fatal Attraction: The Gun Holds Punjab’s Youth In A Pincer Grip

Fatal Attraction: The Gun Holds Punjab’s Youth In A Pincer Grip

They certainly lack the ability to understand that a lawful and peaceful life is far more adventurous and profitable than the life of a gangster


18 July 2022
Punjabi Music Chronicles The Times With Overt Political Themes

Punjabi Music Chronicles The Times With Overt Political Themes

The trend of prominent singers lending their voices to pressing political issues of the state has only intensified after the farm agitation.


04 March 2022
Sex Workers Of Kamathipura: Nowhere To Go, Nowhere To Live

Sex Workers Of Kamathipura: Nowhere To Go, Nowhere To Live

Multiple factors including the law have made it impossible to collectivise the women in the locality


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04 March 2022
Developing Kamathipura: Life Measured in Square Feet

Developing Kamathipura: Life Measured in Square Feet

Plans to revive Mumbai’s infamous locality of Kamathipura have remained, at best, a dream for its residents


08 July 2022
Monsoon In Nagaland: Dust In The Wind, Mud On The Ground

Monsoon In Nagaland: Dust In The Wind, Mud On The Ground

It is this same dust that found its way to Nini Lungalang, an extraordinary Naga poet who wrote Dust, a poem that delicately and powerfully invokes in 40...


07 July 2022
Monsoons And The Interpreter Of Melodies

Monsoons And The Interpreter Of Melodies

The Indian season of rain is made for music and merrymaking and mating, in that order.


10 July 2022
Drenched In Music: Indian Monsoons Birth Melodies And Freedom

Drenched In Music: Indian Monsoons Birth Melodies And Freedom

In India, the monsoon is not merely yet another season, it’s a cultural phenomenon. And it is of matchless historical importance in the world of Indian music.


23 June 2022
Everything That's Wrong With Rewriting History Under Hindutva Nationalism

Everything That's Wrong With Rewriting History Under Hindutva Nationalism

The BJP, with its insistence on the purity of Hindu Rashtra, would sadly reduce the soaring generosity of their founding vision to the petty bigotry of...


24 June 2022
History Revision: Can’t Excavate The Acrimony Of The Past, It's Time To Reconcile And Move Ahead

History Revision: Can’t Excavate The Acrimony Of The Past, It's Time To Reconcile And Move Ahead

We don’t need to excavate the acrimony of the past. Rather, we need to be honest about it, accept it and move beyond it. A country that needs to reconcile...


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