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Sahil's suicide: IITB must answer several questions

New Delhi, Sept. 25 -- On 18 September 2026, Sahil Wakode, a second-year BTech student at IIT Bombay, belonging to SC community, ended his life following an incident of alleged cheating. This is a sho... Read More


In defence of Neha Bora

New Delhi, Sept. 22 -- On September 14, while addressing a Gen Z Mahajutan or public meeting in Gorakhpur, Neha Bora, a PhD scholar at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and national president of the A... Read More


Can the RSS outlive its record?

New Delhi, Sept. 15 -- Mohan Bhagwat's recent global outreach tour to the US, Canada, and Britain, undertaken in the RSS's centenary year, resembles a political theatre in which the protagonist seeks ... Read More


The new war over reservation is a gift to the BJP

New Delhi, Sept. 8 -- Having expressed my initial scepticism about the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) movement at Jantar Mantar, I became extremely happy with the manner in which it conducted the movemen... Read More


Caste, census, and the birth of 'data state'

New Delhi, Aug. 26 -- The BJP's sudden embrace of the caste census marks one of the most striking political reversals in recent Indian history. For over a decade, the party had vehemently opposed cast... Read More


The kids are showing India a new kind of politics

New Delhi, Aug. 21 -- Something remarkable is happening in India. The generation that was expected merely to sit in classrooms, memorise textbooks, and prepare for examinations is beginning to ask a f... Read More


What can the Cockroaches do next?

New Delhi, Aug. 8 -- The BJP has not forgiven itself for Jantar Mantar. Somewhere in the party's internal post-mortems, there will be a version of the question every disciplined machine asks after an ... Read More


The audacity of hope

New Delhi, July 28 -- Few books on contemporary India derive as much of their moral authority from the life of their author asDastan-e-Ummeed.Trained as a radiation oncologist, Vikas Bajpai gave up th... Read More