Tag: india

ECONOMY We as a nation have failed to ensure that all people irrespective of class lead a dignified living and have quality food at subsidised rates. The nation’a poor rank in terms of the GHI paints towards a very sorry picture.

COMMENTARY The JNU VC, it seems, is intoxicated with the sadistic urge to destroy the university. Even his Engineering Students have begun to overcome their silence.

ANALYSIS Legislation have banned manual scavenging but despite these, the practice continues to exist in most states of India. Without a change in social orientation and sustained state initiative, it is impossible to abolish this inhuman compulsion that rules over the lives of lakhs of Dalits employed as manual scavengers. Sundaresha D. S. 

Seven Rohingya refugees who were held in imprisonment since 2012, by the Indian state on the grounds of illegal migration, were deported back to Myanmar on Thursday, after the Supreme Court rejected their plea to stay back in India as they fear being killed in Myanmar.

The Russian President Vladimir Putin met Prime Minster Narendra Modi to finalise the 5.2 billion dollar defence deal in the capital. The air-defence system is expected by the year 2020.

GENDER It is indeed a shame that even as we live in the 21st century, women continue to be ostracized and discriminated against through the archaic and oppressive practice of witchcraft. Ramya Trivedi

COMMENTARY The surgical strikes conducted in 2016 will be commemorated and celebrated this year from September 28-30th at India Gate through a series of exhibitions and cultural programs attempted to revive and reinstall patriotism.

POLITICS From artists, activists, film directors to students and the media- everybody seems to be debating the dangers to political dissent in India and it implications for the sustainability of democracy. A young scholar takes a journey of interrogating and reconceptualising dissent in our times. Sukanya Khar

ANALYSIS Narayana Murthy, in a recent interview emphasized the role of the business elite in initiating equality in India, but in an age where State-Corporate partnership is becoming the dominant discourse - how viable and empirically justified is this argument?

One person commits suicide every 40 seconds in the world. Can we stop stigmatising those with mental illness and devise means to a more inclusive and emancipatory world order?