By Rajesh Kumar
The idea behind this concerted campaign to achieve personhood for embryo and fetus – prenatal human life – is to torpedo women’s reproductive freedom.
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By Ainie Rizvi
Growing number of learners are leaving high schools like aircrafts without a navigation system.
By Alok Ranjan
As a political discourse of populism gains ground and the people’s contempt for the elite grows, the previous rural admiration for urban and non-achievers’ awe for achievement is giving way to suspicion and ordinariness of success.
By Rimli Bhattacharya
As I watched the film, I travelled ages back when I was only a fifteen-year-old teenager and was a victim of a severe sex abuse.
By Sadia Hashmi
Baran Farooqi’s translation of Khalid Jawed’s Ne’mat Khana is an important contribution to Indian literature.
By Nabanita Sengupta
Chakraborty’s novel talks about the anxieties, depression, and helplessness of two young men caught in the rush of city life.
By Shafiq Ahmed
The bulldozers – the new symbol of brute state power – are not just demolishing houses but also demolishing rule of law and constitutional order.
By Moosa Khan
A basic tension between modernity and Islam arises, when philosophically modernity privileges reason as the main source of knowledge and the source of law and ethics in human beings, while Islam relies on revelation as the primary source of knowledge and on God as the source of law and ethics.
By Nishi Pulugurtha
A warm home that always had Ammamma’s caring touch to it.
By Doctor Leon Miller
the pursuit of finding one’s place in society can necessarily be mixed with the realization of having to face oppositional and adversarial challenges.
By Rimli Bhattacharya
While the movie slightly deviates from the book, Sachin Kundalkar deserves credit for portraying a poignant tale of love, relationship, and societal norms on screen.
By Suranjana Choudhury
In making for himself a claim to write, the poet constantly negotiates with all the conflicting emotions that writing offers. It is the same with loving. Readers profoundly experience this truth, and that is enough.
By Ditsa Roy
Politics of “empowerment” has been transmogrified to an electoral politics of caste arithmetic, social engineering, communal rhetoric and occasional freebies.
By Rimli Bhattacharya
I am an engineer with an MBA degree. It took me twenty-two years to figure out that I needed to walk away from this rat race.
By Jyotsna Dwivedi
This phot series, which is a response to the recent Hijab controversy, has tried to convey visually the idea that the thread of fear and protection runs through women in the same way irrespective of strangeness.
By Chaitali Sengupta
Burn the Library and Other Fictions is an intense exploration of human condition that tug at your heartstrings. The well-structured stories are rich, unusual, and varied in their range. Such range gives this slim volume considerable merit and deserve greater attention.
By Q M Jalal Khan
Just as Crimea is recently back on the world stage with its being annexed by Russia since 2014, Ukraine also has recently been invaded, on 24 February 2022, by Russia which wants it back in its fold or sphere of influence.
By Tanvi Kamra
This thought haunted the mind of Mrs. Chhaya Sharma and led to the creation of UshaKiran, an NGO focused on providing children from vulnerable communities residing in adverse conditions with quality education and nutritious food.
On the Pleasures of Gaming: A Personal Homage to Learning, Feeling and Enjoying in video-game worlds
By Sanket Sakar
This is another unique pleasure offered by gaming. With minimum ‘rules’, players are encouraged to learn by doing, gain experience and develop their own ways of completing the objectives.
By Ananya Dutta Gupta
Kunal Basu and Saikat Majumdar both turn their spotlight on the Janus that is India today. Riven, fractious, schizophrenic, this India is a site for desperately competing utopian fantasies in desperate denial of the dystopia looming in the wings of history.
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