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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


Freedom's unfinished dawn

New Delhi, Oct. 14 -- At a time when the vocabulary of freedom has become both politically ubiquitous and intellectually impoverished, the political scientist Neera Chandhoke's Languages of Freedom ar... Read More


Hear the kids

New Delhi, Oct. 14 -- Dear reader, Today's note may sound like a statement of the obvious. But we, as a country, are in one of those phases when the obvious needs saying out loud: on freedom, governa... Read More


The right of peaceful protest need not wait in line

New Delhi, Oct. 14 -- Whenever people gather on a road with placards, someone asks, almost reflexively, whether they had permission. The question sounds reasonable, even responsible. But it assumes th... Read More


France's war on its schoolchildren

New Delhi, Oct. 14 -- "There are no instructions to hold back and no instructions not to use all the weapons available to the domestic security forces": Laurent Nunez, Interior Minister of France, Oct... Read More


Supreme Court's rescue act: A case of too little, too late

New Delhi, Oct. 13 -- On October 10, 2026, Delhi witnessed an extraordinary display of state power against protesters demanding resignation of Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar over elec... Read More


The sudden rise of AI alarmism

New Delhi, Oct. 13 -- Recent weeks have seen a world already overwhelmed by multiple crises being overcome by fears of a new danger posed by the unexpected evolution of agentic AI. The uncertainty is ... Read More


Deepening ties with Gulf countries should go hand in hand with derisking

New Delhi, Oct. 13 -- India is strengthening its ties with the Gulf countries even as the region is becoming more unpredictable. The visit of Indian ministers to the September 25 India-Gulf Cooperatio... Read More


The transfer offensive

New Delhi, Oct. 13 -- The long-standing tradition of political interference and intimidation in West Bengal's higher education system persists, as the newly elected BJP government recently introduced ... Read More