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New Delhi, Oct. 14 -- At Independence, the Indian higher education system was small, elitist, and socially exclusive, concentrated in a few institutions and dominated by the privileged castes, with li... Read More


Supreme Court's rescue act: A case of too little, too late

New Delhi, Oct. 13 -- On October 10, 2026, Delhi witnessed an extraordinary display of state power against protesters demanding resignation of Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar over elec... Read More


Modi opens war on the people, and the Supreme Court looks on

New Delhi, Oct. 10 -- On October 10, Delhi was sealed before the protest began. Dozens of Metro stations were closed or restricted, trains cancelled, and mobile internet suspended in central Delhi. Ja... Read More


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