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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...
Opinion
How I became a ‘Vedi’
Izza Ahsan
Why exactly did this post, out of all the other posts I see on Instagram on a daily basis, calm a really hidden disturbed spot that I hadn’t...
Opinion
My emotions are political!
Benna Fathima
Indeed understanding the university campus and its political nature requires us to analyse how these spaces operate as centres of accumulation, production and perpetuation of the knowledge system....
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Opinion
Turns of the political: lessons from University of Hyderabad
C. Yahya
University of Hyderabad (UoH) facing it's students union election on 26th September 2019. Recent UoH election got attention and significance in which Hindutva organisations had major upper-hand power...
India
In the Break*: An affective note on JNU election
Muhammed Shah (Shan)
Umar Faruk, a contestant for the counselor post in Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) Students’ Union election 2019, began his public speech by declaring that he is a...
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India
Margins, Discourse and Phobia : Three Notes on JNU Campus Politics
Ummul Fayiza
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During his speech in the public meeting on Sunday, BAPSA-Fraternity president candidate Jitendra Suna presented some reflections on his journey to JNU campus. I...
India
JNU: From narrow ‘progressivism’ to broadening identity politics
Balakrishnan Padmavathi
I am not excited about JNUSU election anymore. But this election, I must say, is going to be marked in the history of JNU for the reason...
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Editor's Pick
The fear over India’s citizenship test has caused 61 deaths and suicides
Aslah Kayyalakkath
The souls, that lived in this land for about a half century, who were married, who had kids, who learned here, who were wholly born and...
Opinion
Kerala and its floods, an opinion note
Noufa C.K
As of the official records on 19th of August, 2019, the death toll from the severe floods that caused widespread damage to the state of Kerala has risen...
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India
UAPA Amendment Act: India to create permanent national security state at the expense of human rights
Adhil Saifudheen
Introduction
Indian Parliament recently passed an amendment to Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (Hereinafter UAPA), which allows the executive to designate Individual as ‘Terrorist without any trial or conviction through...
India
People coming from Kashmir say about the situation
Shehla Rashid Shora
Some of the things that people coming from Kashmir say about the situation:
1) Movement within Srinagar and to neighbouring districts is more or less permitted. Local press...
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India
Article 370 and Dr. Ambedkar: A fact-check
Pratik Tembhurne
Let’s now turn to the views of the chief architect of the Constitution of India, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, on Article 370. Every time Kashmir is in the news,...
India
A Nasiruddin Mullah Law
The Government has made no effective discussion with the stake holders like the All India Muslim Personal Law Board before framing the controversial Bill. The Act is clearly unconstitutional and contrary to the basic principles of criminal jurisprudence.
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