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Tharoor made Aware of Caste
Jishnu EN, DH Webdesk, Nov 2 2017, 20:30 IST Tejaswini Tabhane and Shashi Tharoor. Almost three years ago, former Union minister of state for external affairs, a well-known writer and speaker Shashi Tharoor wrote an article titled “Why Caste Won’t … Continue reading
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IMF Chief on Indian Economy
Days after the International Monetary Fund lowered its growth forecast for the current and the next year, IMF chief Christine Lagarde today said the Indian economy is on a “very solid track” in the mid-term. “Turning to India…we have … Continue reading
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‘Dalit movement has to see itself as part of a class-wide movement’
3-3-2016 Reservation is an issue that only affects a small proportion of Dalits, says sociologist Vivek Chibber. The ferment on campuses across the country following Rohith Vemula’s suicide and the recent crackdown on free speech at Jawaharlal Nehru University have … Continue reading
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‘Nationalism does not allow the Hindu in India to claim primacy’
2-3-2016 Historian Romila Thapar on academic freedom, nationalism, sedition, and free speech A widely respected public intellectual, Romila Thapar has groomed generations of students in Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), and earlier in Delhi University. Frank in her views, she insists … Continue reading
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Emptying the idea of India SATISH DESHPANDE MARY E. JOHN
2-3-2016 The current strategy of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is to mount relentless rhetorical attacks on the “anti” in anti-national while leaving the “nation” in national carefully empty. It was showcased in Parliament by Human Resource Development Minister Smriti … Continue reading
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Is India at an inflection point? M.K. NARAYANAN
29-2-2016 The Hindu The first two decades of the 21st century have witnessed a great deal of unrest and turbulence in several countries across the globe, notably in West Asia. India was spared the kind of protests that marked the … Continue reading
Not the Emergency by any stretch of the imagination
28-2-2016 Indira Gandhi announcing Emergency in June 1975 (HT Photo) Last Sunday, the features sections of newspapers were largely devoted to the police intervention in Jawaharlal Nehru University and its aftermath. Interviewed by Deccan Herald, the general secretary of the … Continue reading
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What it means to be ‘national’ PRABHAT PATNAIK
When students of my university are being accused of being “anti-national”, it is time to ask the question: what does “national” mean? And the answer is not as simple as many imagine. The terms “national”, “nationalism” and “nation-state” came into … Continue reading
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Labour in the twenty-first century G. SAMPATH
As the NDA government leans towards industrialists by scripting reforms that would legalise and expand contract labour, the big question is: do India’s trade unions have it in them to resist this imminent legislative blitz? On February 24, the RSS-affiliated … Continue reading
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Quantifying the caste quotas SONALDE DESAI
“Government jobs have stagnated while educational attainment has increased rapidly. Thus, it is not surprising that more claimants for these scarce jobs are aggressively staking their claims.” Picture shows Jat protesters at Sampla village in Haryana blocking a part … Continue reading
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