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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...
India
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.
Opinion
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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Opinion
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.
Opinion
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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Editor's Pick
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.
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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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Opinion
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.
Editor's Pick
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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Opinion
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.
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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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Film and TV
‘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...
Opinion
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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