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Keralam's Land Reforms 2.0: Too many unanswered questions

New Delhi, Oct. 15 -- Leaders, writers, and activists from Adivasi and Dalit organisations met in Kottayam, Keralam, on September 26 to prepare for a land conclave scheduled to be held in November. Le... Read More


'Digital India' needs an upgrade

New Delhi, Oct. 15 -- On the morning of June 16, 2026, millions of exam aspirants found that Telegram no longer worked. Besides the ban punishing more than 150 million ordinary users, the State had au... Read More


West Asia's war is bankrupting France, and India is next

New Delhi, Oct. 15 -- Spot prices of crude oil and yields on French government bonds jumped on September 10. On that day, Yemen-based Houthis-an AI-literate militia with an extraordinary range of mode... Read More


Scenes from a CP protest

New Delhi, Oct. 15 -- I spent the morning of October 12 googling safe routes to the protest. Modi's full-bore suppression of the CJP protest on the 10th had left the careful political tourist in me wa... Read More


Modi government is in panic: John Brittas

New Delhi, Oct. 15 -- In this episode of SpeakEasy with Amit Baruah, CPI(M) Rajya Sabha MP John Brittas discusses the police crackdown on protesters in Delhi, the use of force against political leader... Read More


All the king's horses and all the king's men

New Delhi, Oct. 15 -- The success of Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi's rally on October 12, 2026, gathering 2.5 lakh marchers against electoral malpractices, should not blind us to the fact that Kin... Read More


What the pattern reveals

New Delhi, Oct. 14 -- When parents who had earlier lost children atIITBombay joined the protests after the death of the second-year studentSahilWakodein September, they said they were asking the same ... Read More


Begins at the base

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


We need a law against caste discrimination in educational institutions: Sukhadeo Thorat

New Delhi, Oct. 14 -- Sukhadeo Thorat is an eminent sociology professor whose report on caste discrimination in higher educational institutes in India remains phenomenal for what it revealed. The repo... Read More


IIT Bombay suicide and the caste factor

New Delhi, Oct. 14 -- Twenty-two-year-old SahilWakodewas a second-yearBTechstudent in the Department of Energy Science and Engineering atIITBombay, one of India's premier higher educational institutio... Read More