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What is women's unpaid work worth?: Prabha Kotiswaran

New Delhi, Aug. 17 -- In this episode of Frontline Conversations, Prabha Kotiswaran, Professor of Law and Social Justice at King's College London, speaks about her book "Wages for Housework: India's E... Read More


Goa's opposition is squandering its best shot at unseating the BJP

New Delhi, Aug. 17 -- "I am only asking the opposition: hold your egos and leave them outside the door. Unite, or else the BJP will finish the Goans and the culture of Goa." Walter Lobo's words echo t... Read More


What is women's unpaid work?

New Delhi, Aug. 17 -- In this episode of Frontline Conversations, Prabha Kotiswaran, Professor of Law and Social Justice at King's College London, speaks about her book "Wages for Housework: India's E... Read More


Will Abhirup Paul meet the fate of Surendra Gadling, Umar Khalid, and Sharjeel Imam?

New Delhi, Aug. 17 -- Abhirup Paul is a name that has little recall value. Note down his name, because he's likely to be the next Surendra Gadling or the next Umar Khalid or the next Sharjeel Imam-the... Read More


The digger and the rat

New Delhi, Aug. 15 -- Authoritarian symbols have an ungovernable stubbornness. Devoid of agency, yet uncaring of their own origins, such symbols eventually slip from the grasp of their authors and acq... Read More


Ethanol blending: Who gains and who pays?

New Delhi, Aug. 15 -- Several controversial policies of this government (the BJP government at the Centre) have followed a similar trajectory. The policy and its rationale are first enunciated in gran... Read More


Sumit Sarkar (1939-2026): Historian of India's many histories

New Delhi, Aug. 15 -- There are teachers whose lectures one remembers, and there are teachers who become part of the way one thinks. For many of us, Sumit Sarkar was the latter. It is difficult to sep... Read More


Marquez, Las Malvinas, and cinema of 'the disappeared'

New Delhi, Aug. 15 -- The just-ended World Cup saw Lionel Messi and his team, along with thousands of Argentines in the stands, repeatedly invoke the killing of "our brothers" in Las Malvinas 44 years... Read More


Free your mind, the rest will follow

New Delhi, Aug. 14 -- In the span of a month, things that we haven't heard discussed in public forums for many years are now being mentioned repeatedly and widely. For a Central government that has p... Read More


Lahore, 1947: The battles before the border was drawn

New Delhi, Aug. 14 -- There's an old saying in Punjabi that goes, "Jinne Lahore nahi vekhya, oh jammiya hi nahi", meaning one who has not seen Lahore has not truly been born. The saying is an indicat... Read More