Monthly Archives: August 2018

After a perpetual sense of discomfort and growing dissent on campus, the JNU faculty has written an open letter to the HRD Minister Parakah Javedkar and asked him to remove the VC Jagdish Kumar immediately.

The recent arrests of activists working for the oppressed sections of society and the charges of alleged naxalite links has sparked of a nationwide debate on the threat to democratic practice in India.

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VIEWPOINT | In this brief note, the author has argued that the constant attack on the dissenters and the spirit of critical intellectual tradition is reminding us of an authoritarian regime. 

PERSPECTIVE Five eminent activists were arrested from several states across India on Tuesday, following the probe relating to the Bhima-Koregaon case and their alleged Maoist links.

SPECIAL ESSAY Metropolitan living has often made us incapable of humanity and brought home the illusion that all beings are secondary to humans. A recent experience of pain and inner conflict as reflected on by the author enabled him to see the irony of this anthropocentric fallacy.

A recent social audit brings forward the pathology of the shelter homes for children in the country where merely 54 out of the 2,874 shelter homes can be given a positive review.

LITERARY CORNER Even in the over-crowded city, there is a possibility: a touch that gives birth to an extraordinary poem of subtle love.

POLITICS For their alleged involvement in the Bhima Koregaon upsurge and alleged involvement in Maoist organisation, the Police conducted raids across many states in India - arresting five eminent activists.

KERALA FLOOD More than 50,000 volunteers across the state of Kerala are helping out to drain out water and clean homes before people can leave the relief camps.