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.
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.
The doomsday scenario painted by some AI industry insiders cannot be brushed off. But is it also a ploy by the tech behemoths to shut the door on smaller players, secure profits, and establish dominance?
The Supreme Court must do more than remind the state of fundamental rights; it must ensure they cannot be extinguished by executive fiat. Delays and remedies that come after consequences become irreversible have cast a cloud over judicial review.
The recent India-GCC meeting review of the Joint Action Plan and FTA negotiations promises economic opportunities but also exposes an interconnected network of Indian sectors to geopolitical risks that diversification alone cannot shield them from.
A Bill recently passed in West Bengal that enables State-wide transfer of teachers and professors in government-aided colleges and universities stokes fears of political vendetta and institutional interference.
In Digger, Alejandro González Iñárritu makes a fragile, unlikeable climate change satire, then we find it’s a satire of that satire. But can we also make satire rooted in hope?
Raghavan Srinivasan posits the Bhakti movement in Tamilakam as an early instance of resistance to power structures, yet his study leaves several important issues untouched or only briefly mentioned.
Irwin Allan Sealy travels in the US in search of a cluster of ancient Tamil yoginis, carved in stone and now scattered across museums, only to find them in unexpected people and places.
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