By Abdullah Kazmi
And if at all the civil society demands change, these political strongmen fall into their dangerous shadow archetype, unleashing chaos and violence on the whole community.
Asides
By Sriti Ganguly
In Teaching to Transgress, hooks draws on her experiences, first as a student and then as an educator, and beautifully lays out how learning can be liberating and revolutionary.
Nayab Gauhar & Farhan Siddique
So, if we allow our democracy to crumble in majoritarianism or authoritarianism, then our economic future and our soul as a nation and place among other democratic nations will be jeopardized. Democracy is not something nice to have but it is central to everything.
By Harnoor Kashmir Khungar
Whenever my grandparents or others tell me stories about the partition, I always wonder how different my life would have been if the Congress and the Muslim League had agreed to a coalition.
By Umar Timol
This dead child is a less civilized child. He is not like the other kids, the ones who are civilized. He will not make the headlines of the international press. His abusers will not be imprisoned.
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.
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.
Cafe Dissensus Everyday 