Saturday, April 20, 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...

Cops in a university library and horrifying stories of police brutality, Jamia student narrates

Students were shouting not to again break the glasses of the library, and better take shelter in reading hall. According to it we ran to the reading hall and sat for a while in it.

CAB: Reject the brazen Hinduisation of India

YFDA The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill 2019 was introduced and passed in the Lok Sabha on December 9, 2019 and is being discussed in the Rajya Sabha today. It is on...
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Saibaba’s letter from Jail

On International Day of Disabled Persons, A.S Vasantha Kumari, Wife of G.N Saibaba, a former Delhi University professor serving a life sentence for ‘Maoist links’, took to Facebook to share a letter written by Saibaba from his jail cell in October 2019.

Film in Colour(s)

Cinematic representation, then, is most effective when it captures the multiple shades of diverse lives. The beauty of such potential is more than skin deep.
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JNU and India’s larger Brahmanical project

Amidst all this pressure and pessimism from all sides, the number of protesting students has not only remained constant since day one, but has also increased.

Babri: Supreme Court enforces, validates majoritarian politics

When I walked into Supreme Court on 9thNovember 2019, as a young Muslim lawyer to witness the judgment of Ramjanmbhoomi-Babri Masjid Case, I very well knew that the judgement would be in favour of Hindu parties, but the factor that shocked me was the absence of a dissenting opinion in the judgment.
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The 5 acre graveyard of justice and democracy

The pronouncement of Ayodhya Verdict has brought upon a resolution to a very controversial standstill, yet what it failed to bring was justice and hope among the minorities of India.

Babri verdict is not an act of justice to Muslims

This verdict has now shattered this faith on SC. Let's hope that due justice would be rendered in the review petition to be filed. Let's stay calm and wait without falling prey into any provocation, to safeguard religious and social harmony.
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Kerala’s left front; Crusaders of anti-fascist alliances

We may agree or disagree with the ideology those who have lost in this battlefields, but lets be clear they were not forest pirates but comrades who dared to hold a red-flag to fight the injustice prevailing in the society.

India: Moving towards linguistic imperialism

Afreen Fatima When Hindi is forced on speakers of different languages we rob India off the cultural diversity that it celebrates so much of. Language and society are deeply...
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‘Joker’: We are all mad here

Tapatrisha Das A public washroom, a blood smeared gun, two feet slow dancing with fingers drawing patterns in air, a face smeared with colors of a clown that has just...

A universal mother and the secular others

"We are Najeeb" is a slogan that echoes in every protest, in agitation to bring justice to Najeeb.
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