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IIT Bombay: an institute at war with its own students

New Delhi, Nov. 10 -- The manner in which the IIT Bombay administration has treated students protesting the death of Sahil Wakode raises questions that go far beyond the immediate dispute. It reveals ... Read More


Mizoram's peacemaker

New Delhi, Nov. 10 -- Mizoram is the only State in India's restive periphery that resolved an armed insurgency through peaceful dialogue. The severity of the conflict and the government's initial resp... Read More


M. John Harrison, 81, becomes oldest Booker Prize winner

New Delhi, Nov. 10 -- The British author M. John Harrison won the Booker Prize on November 9 for his enigmatic novel The End of Everything, which echoes concerns about artificial intelligence in a dar... Read More


Season for students

New Delhi, Nov. 10 -- A series of protests across prominent universities appears to indicate a new wave of awareness and dissatisfaction among students, over and above the movement generated by the Co... Read More


Who governs Manipur three years on?

New Delhi, Nov. 10 -- Manipur has been in crisis since ethnic violence broke out on May 3, 2023. It is a site of ethnic conflict and of silent warfare, and the crisis now has three forms: a community ... Read More


Hunting dissent under the cover of law

New Delhi, Nov. 9 -- When a state cannot stop a movement in the streets, it shifts the struggle to the courtroom. This is one of the oldest tricks in the repertoire of power. The Modi government, sinc... Read More


No holds barred

New Delhi, Nov. 9 -- Reading Justice (retd) K. Chandru, one is always struck by the same question: how did someone like him become a High Court judge? Here is a man uninterested in conforming to exis... Read More


TVK allies oppose move to scrap Kurien Committee, while Congress stays largely silent

New Delhi, Nov. 9 -- The sudden move of the Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) government to end the tenure of the High-Level Committee on Union-State Relations, a mere six months before it submitted its ... Read More


Why Hindus in US and India must speak up against Hindutva

New Delhi, Nov. 9 -- Back in 2022, four years before the US rejected President Donald Trump's politics of hate in last week's midterm election, academic Akhila L. Ananth wrote a poignant confessional ... Read More


The fault lines of Bastar

New Delhi, Nov. 9 -- Can one trace the naxal insurgency in contemporary Bastar to overlooked pages of history that go back several centuries? The senior journalist Shantanu Nandan Sharma's debut work,... Read More