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Analysing dip in Academic Freedom Index: Who takes the deepest plunge?
Dr. Shirin Akhter, Dr. Vijender Singh Chauhan
The recent revelation on the Academic Freedom Index (AFI) shows that academic freedom has registered a further dip in India. The report notes...
Film and TV
“Aadujeevitham”: Fails in its adaptation, survives on visual grandeur and built-up anticipation
One can understand how the idea of Najeeb’s Iman in the novel is universalised into Hope in the film. This might appear as nit picking but given the current situation, I cannot help but highlight how Islamic narratives are appropriated by liberal language use.
Elections 2024
Democracy is at stake as India gears up for national elections
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his recent speeches has expressed confidence in coming back to power for...
Opinion
Gangs, kidnappings, murders: Why thousands of Rohingya are desperately trying to escape refugee camps by boats
Ruth Wells, UNSW Sydney and Max William Loomes, UNSW Sydney
Late last week, a boat crammed with Rohingya refugees...
Opinion
Electoral Bonds: A game theoretic enquiry into who gains at whose cost?
Shirin Akhter and Vijender Singh Chauhan
The debate around electoral bonds in India has brought to the fore a...
Film and TV
Dunki: Who draws borders around countries?
Dunki - a film that we had been waiting for with bated breath
Features
Understanding India through cricket: Colonialism, casteism and capitalism
In the recent culmination of the One Day International World Cup, media outlets, social platforms, and everyday conversations were ablaze with fervour.
Lawrence Quesne, in his book “History of...
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Education
Is UGC’s facade a jagged one?
The University Grants Commission (UGC) once again came under scrutiny for urging universities to establish selfie points featuring the image of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The selfie points are...
Opinion
Why I was displaced from Indraprastha College for Women?
Dr. Shubhda Chaudhary, the first displaced teacher at Indraprastha College for Women, Delhi University, shares her experience of victimization and alienation. She taught there for 4.7 years and is also a former student of the College.
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Environment
Breathless in capital: The political economy of air pollution in Delhi
Shirin Akhter & C Saratchand
Delhi is listed as one of the most polluted cities in the world, the pollution has resulted in shortening the life span of its residents...
India
“I am surrounded by a deafening silence”
These days I find it suffocating in my college. As Indraprastha College for Women enters its 100th year, I stand in front of those saffron walls in sadness, a...
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Opinion
Why do Palestinian lives not matter in Western consciousness?
In the unilateral Balfour Declaration of 1917, the British colonial authorities took upon themselves the task of establishing a “national home” for the Jewish people; that is, a territory...
Opinion
As disasters and heat intensify, can world meet urgency of moment at the COP28 climate talks?
Brendan Mackey, Griffith University
Eight years ago, the world agreed to an ambitious target in the Paris Agreement: hold warming to 1.5°C to limit further dangerous levels of climate change.
Since...
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Opinion
A guide to understanding war crimes by Israel
As Israel’s recent aggression on Gaza pauses after the 48th day, the state has accumulated a long list of what looks like blatant violations of the International Humanitarian Law...
Opinion
How worried should we be about the pneumonia outbreak in China?
C Raina MacIntyre, UNSW Sydney; Ashley Quigley, UNSW Sydney; Haley Stone, UNSW Sydney, and Rebecca Dawson, UNSW Sydney
Reports of a surge in pneumonia-like illness primarily affecting children in northern...
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India
Telangana Polls: How parties are eyeing to hold the state with highest PCI
The focus of attraction lies on the locus of the youngest state of India – Telangana which is ruled by the lesser-known regional party Bharat Rashtra Samithi (formerly known as Telangana Rashtra Samithi) with opposition Indian National Congress securing 19 seats while Bharatiya Janata Party secured a sole legislator.
Opinion
With love, to Gaza
Within Gaza's streets, where rubble lies, echoes the cries as death defies.
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