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The atmosphere of fear is gone now: Saurav Das

New Delhi, Aug. 10 -- The Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) started as a joke and very quickly went on to helm a Gen Z protest that shook the establishment. It achieved the unthinkable when Dharmendra Pradh... Read More


A generation betrayed

New Delhi, Aug. 10 -- The Cockroach Janta Party (CJP)-led protest, which was called off after Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan resigned on July 25, unleashed a reservoir of anger building up for ... Read More


Why the NTA must go

New Delhi, Aug. 10 -- STUDENT PROTESTS The pressure created by student protests triggered by the paper leaks in the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (UG) forced the resignation of the Union Edu... Read More


Caste and the cockroach

New Delhi, Aug. 10 -- The Cockroach Janta Party's (CJP) protest and the rise of Gen Z mark an important political moment in Indian resistance culture. It is too early to term it as a movement or a rev... Read More


The illusion of reform

New Delhi, Aug. 10 -- The last couple of years have proved turbulent for students preparing for the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET), the sole gateway for admission to undergraduate medic... Read More


Joan P. Mencher (1930-2026): Anthropologist who had the soul of India

New Delhi, Aug. 10 -- Joan P. Mencher was raised in the United States and was an alumna of Columbia University in New York, where she earned her PhD in anthropology. She devoted herself to anthropolog... Read More


What Meta won't explain about content moderation

New Delhi, Aug. 10 -- On July 23, Prime Minister Narendra Modi posted a selfie video to reassure young protesters that examination paper leaks would be punished. In the early hours of July 28, Faceboo... Read More


Rahul Gandhi's rise is inversely proportional to Modi's decline

New Delhi, Aug. 10 -- Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was once "Pappu", derided for his political naivety and trolled mercilessly. He is now the Leader of the Opposition (LoP), leading the charge against... Read More


Small towns have turned into a boutique sub-mode for writers and filmmakers: Neelum Saran Gour

New Delhi, Aug. 9 -- Neelum Saran Gour is the author of seven novels, four short-story collections, two books of non-fiction, a Hindi translation of one of her own novels, and a critical study of Raja... Read More


Byron and Shelley's Pisa, still slightly tilted

New Delhi, Aug. 9 -- Under the shadow of the Leaning Tower of Pisa, elegantly emblematic of the dolce vita feeling that typifies Italy, selfie-seeking influencers frenziedly swarm around its foot on a... Read More