Neera Chandhoke reads Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Sahir Ludhianvi and Bimal Roy as political thinkers, finding in their poetry and cinema a view of freedom as a horizon that we must continuously fight to reimagine.

Asking the government for permission to criticise the government turns a fundamental right into a favour. The Constitution sets no such condition.

Leaking roofs, overcrowded classrooms and a university admissions system that leaves thousands in limbo have driven French students to protest. The state’s answer has been a campaign of police violence.

Amit Chaudhuri’s new novel set in an alternative Paris, Ramachandra Guha’s exploration of the complex relationship between Mahatma Gandhi and B.R. Ambedkar, and much more ...

Sahil Wakode’s death by suicide at IIT Bombay reignites the debate over caste discrimination in India’s higher education institutions and highlights the need for a systemic reboot rather than incremental fixes.

As student suicides rise faster than enrolment rates, data can reveal who is most affected and why. But India seems to count deaths more precisely than it can explain the patterns beneath them.

The Constitution gave our pluralist inheritance institutional form, but institutions draw on the moral imaginary around them, and that imaginary is now contested on the ground.

The persistence of caste in higher education cannot be addressed without tackling the greater inequality in schools, starting with universal, compulsory, free education in high-quality government schools.