In its attempt to spin a web of lies the BJP has been caught red handed
Anand Teltumbde Mumbai
MARCH 2016
MARCH 2016
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If anyone thinks that Modi can be persuaded by public appeals, pluralist ideas and logical arguments, then, it seems, they will be sadly mistaken
Sanjay Kapoor Delhi
Like Beethoven's ‘Ode to Joy’, JNU celebrates the culture of dissent and intellectual freedom
Amit Sengupta Delhi
The barometer of a good movie is that it makes us think, talk, debate about it and Aligarh ticks all
those boxes
Sonali Ghosh Sen Kolkata
A spate of awards for Mad Max: Fury Road, more success for Inarritu and a win at last for DiCaprio notwithstanding, the elephant in the room was race
Dhruba Basu Delhi
Between the bully and the boor, the BJP regime in the state has lost its plot
Bhupendra Yadav Bengaluru
Brendon McCullum made both cricket and the New Zealand team better
Sandeep Kumar & Akshay Sharma Delhi
With JNU striking a complex chord in the Valley, Kashmir today appears to be at the crossroads once again. There is a deepening disillusionment with the Indian State, its policies and political discourse
Anuradha Bhasin Jamwal Srinagar
It will need a wise government to understand this ‘ highly intelligent disruption’ so that our society does not lapse into nasty, brutish mob violence
Hardnews Bureau Delhi
An eyewitness recollects the horrors which unfolded during the Jat agitation. Many innocent lives were lost needlessly while the government was caught napping
Hardnews Bureau Delhi
Students at Jadavpur University have already built their rainbow scaffolding, and they are not backing out
Arshia Dhar Kolkata
The FTII freedom struggle was powered by the sheer love for cinema. A longform diary account captures the unfortunate sequence of events over the past one year
Ritwick Goswami Pune
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In highly polarised times like these the words of Rabindranath Tagore provide some much needed inspiration
Recently, a friend returned from a long journey that took him as far as the ancient university town of Nalanda in Bihar. What did he see? Plenty, it seems.
Azadpur Mandi is one of the largest agricultural produce markets in Asia, where the state wants to do away with the middleman and make the farmers and the end users meet directly. Can they disrupt this system?
Abeer Kapoor and Dhruba Basu Delhi
The JNU saga has shown that the spaces for dissent are shrinking fast
Shruti Jain Delhi