Friday, April 19, 2024

Opinion

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...

“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. 

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...

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...

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...

Muslim mothers

Mother's Day each year is the same, people end up saying that every day should be honored as mother's day as every mother is special and they deserve all the happiness in the world. But this year, mother's day was quite unusual in India. On the day when our mothers are supposed to be stress-free and rest for a while, many Indian Muslim mothers did nothing but worry for their children.

A response to Suraj Yengde: Problems of racialization and Dalit essentialism

This is in response to the recent article on The Wire by Suraj Yengde titled as "In fallout of black appropriation in US, echoes of debate on Dalit representation in India" published on 8 September 2020.
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Last time I saw Julian Assange he looked tired and wan

You don’t need to be an expert in extradition law to understand that the charges against Assange are politically-motivated.

Govt will never succeed in silencing us: Harsh Mander on Delhi violence case

But the actual conspiracy was a very different one from the one which Delhi Police is propagating.
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Muslims and ‘secular alternatives’

As the supporters of the right-wing fascist Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) burst crackers on 5th August to celebrate the foundation ceremony in Ayodhya, there was a more surprising celebration done by the Congress, the main opposition of BJP and often hailed as the sole guardian of liberty, secularism and rights in India. However, their claim to this guardianship is now under-investigation given their delight over the temple in Ayodhya being constructed literally over graves of Muslims.

‘Dialect’ics of performance: An ode to Mammootty

Thus, all the individualistic improvements apart, our experience of seeing Mammootty on screen is always strongly mediated by our history of discursive engagements with various on/off-screen experiences of Mammootty, as an actor and as a public personality.
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In her last editorial, Gauri Lankesh said spreading fake news had contributed to PM Modi’s success

In her last editorial, the journalist Gauri Lankesh said that spreading fake news had contributed to the success of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Hindu nationalist party.

#SaveMaharajas: Oppose campus confinement

Lintha Saleem In its 145 year history, Maharaja’s College in Kochi has been the bellwether indicating the state of higher education and student politics in Kerala. A 25-acre campus sprawled...
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On International Day of Disappeared, remember 8000+ victims of enforced disappearances in Kashmir

On the International Day of the Disappeared, remembering the Kashmiri lives which have been subjected to enforced disappearance not once, but over and over again across the past few decades.

Listen to ‘the other Latif’

Radiolab reporter Latif Nasser’s investigative radio documentary series, ‘The Other Latif’ revisits Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, the 18-year-old America’s souvenir of human rights abuse, through a personal history of...
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Support for Prashant Bhushan and ostracized minorities

It has been just over a week since the Supreme Court of India had pronounced prominent advocate Prashant Bhushan to be guilty of contempt of Court. The case arose...

Hany Babu: An epitome of intellectual activism

Hany Babu, a professor, and an anti-caste activist is the 12th person to be arrested in connection with the Elgar Parishad violence.
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