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'Marxism helped me understand Ambedkar better': Justice (retd) K Chandru, real-life hero of Jai BhimJustice (retired) K Chandru, who was then a lawyer, had argued the case of Rajakannu, who was killed in police custody. In the movie, Suriy...- Blursday, PPE, quarantine: How the coronavirus took over not just our lives but also vocabularyIn 2020, though, Covid-19 sneezed on the damned dictionary.
- Biden-Harris have to address the brutality of a system that is creating a big divide: Jason StanleyThis election reveals that white nationalism is always going to be a powerful force, but that it is a minority force, said Jason Stanley wh...
- There’s now one more category of minorities – Indians who are targeted because they dissent: Romila ThaparThapar reminds us, familiar with dissent, that "dissent is not imported from the West", and that Hinduism is not a “single, continuous, unc...
- It would have been too Bollywood to have a Dalit hero: 'Article 15' director Anubhav SinhaThe movie has opened to protests by fringe organisations representing upper castes.
- Gandhi’s Ram was in his heart. He did not need a big temple: Ramachandra GuhaNoted author Ramachandra Guha speaks about his new book on Gandhi's life from the time he leaves Cape Town in July 1914 to his assassinatio...
- RSS is a lot more diverse than it used to be: Author Walter AndersenRSS is more ideologically flexible than it had been in the past. But one has to distinguish RSS from BJP. RSS is not BJP, said Walter Ander...
- Micro targeting of voters can swing entire elections: Bartlett, who discovered Congress poster in Cambridge Analytica office"Psychographics has the potential to manipulate people. It is powerful in close elections, where there are relatively small margins — you c...
- The ring changed Dushyanta from a lying cad to an honourable man: Wendy Doniger"The rings in these texts, therefore, usually belong to kings and princesses, though also to merchants," Doniger said.
- How Right to Privacy can be a life-changerIn this new glow of freedom, the citizen stands tall, holding the inviolable right to wear what she wants, eat what she wants, live where s...
- Fiction not being real undermines fiction: Arundhati RoyRoy explains why her new book took 20 years, why Kashmir needs a novel to tell its truth, and why writers need to get out of silos of imagi...
- Hypernationalism is stupid but borders must be protected: Anuja ChauhanYoungsters nowadays tend to think that there were no liberated women in the 1970s. But Indira Gandhi was the prime minister, said Anuja Cha...
- Democracy is damaged when people are afraid to speak out: Amartya SenStifling expressions of private concern and public interest is very problematic for any kind of political participation, says Amartya Sen.
- 1991 reform was Narasimhanomics, Congress downplayed Rao’s role: Sanjaya BaruBaru says that the dangerous brinkmanship Rajiv Gandhi played when the economy was going through a crisis has been glossed over.
- Rahul Gandhi should retire, BJP will be hegemonic force for next 15-20 years: Ramachandra GuhaThe Swatantra Party, founded by C Rajagopalachari, tried and failed. Now the Aam Aadmi Party may try and it will be interesting to see how ...
- Rajmohan Gandhi responds to PM Modi’s question on why BR Ambedkar resigned in 1951In an email interview with Charmy Harikrishnan, the grandson and biographer of the Mahatma answers PM Modi’s question on why Ambedkar resig...
- Poke Me: After banning Doniger's book on Hindus, will you ban Kalidasa next?By insisting that Hinduism's stories and histories should fit the narrow cast of your ideology, you haven't proved to be a bigger Hindu, Ba...
- Tanishq advertisement breaks stereotypes; shows a dusky bride and remarriageDiwali is when Indian advertising celebrates its traditions. Deep fried jalebis, firecrackers and diyas, happy joint families with shimmeri...
- 165 years after manifesto, a spectre haunts DelhiNearby were markers of the old guard of the old revolution: Indrajit Gupta Marg, BT Ranadive Bhavan and Chandrasekhar Bhavan.
- Delhi gang rape: No girl is safe when police, politicians are eager to outsource the job of protectionNo one is safe especially when police and politicians are eager to outsource the job of protection to those who could be possible victims.
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