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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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