The Red Republic of Gilan, a Hundred Years On
Reading Time: 13 minutes ‘Ae Lenin, ae farishta-e-rehmatKun qadam ranja zood be-zehmatTukham chashm man aashiyana tastHen ba farma keh khana khana-e-tast’ ‘Lenin, O Angel of...
Category : Society
Watch | ‘A Step Towards Social Justice,’ Says Tribal Woman Appointed as Varsity VC
Reading Time: < 1 minute Professor Sona Jharia Minz has been appointed as the new Vice Chancellor of Sido Kanhu Murmu University. A tribal woman,...
No Crowding, No Physical Offerings: Health Ministry Announces SOPs for Religious Places
Reading Time: 3 minutes New Delhi: Religious places inside containment zones shall remain closed for public and those outside will be allowed to open, according...
How Gendered Labour Was Hard-Wired Into Upper-Middle-Class Households
Reading Time: 8 minutes That domestic labour in India still is a highly gendered discourse is one of patriarchy’s worst-kept secrets. For all their apparent...
The Pandemic as an Opportunity to Educate on What it Means to Be a Citizen
Reading Time: 8 minutes Before the coronavirus arrested us in our stride, in late March, people across India were in the throes of other urgent...
Rights Groups Call for Probe Into Trafficking Networks After Rape of Adivasi Migrant Worker
Reading Time: 5 minutes New Delhi: In the wake of a case of forced labour and rape of an Adivasi woman in Bengaluru, members of...
No Access to Technology for TV Lessons, Class X Student Dies by Suicide in Kerala
Reading Time: 3 minutes New Delhi: A Class X student in Kerala’s Malappuram district set herself on fire, reportedly out of a sense of helplessness...
Question Over Free Treatment in Delhi Hospitals Rages as Kejriwal Announces Sealing of Borders
Reading Time: 5 minutes New Delhi: The Delhi government on Monday, June 1, sealed its borders for a week to stem the increase in COVID-19...
During Lockdown, Tripura Govt Didn’t Provide Mid-Day Meal Food Grains to Any Child
Reading Time: 6 minutes New Delhi: The BJP government in Tripura, led by Biplab Kumar Deb, has not provided food to any child under the...
How India Helped Britain Win its ‘Dirty’ War
Reading Time: 7 minutes On the last day of May in 1902 one of Britain’s most bitter imperial wars came to an end. The Boer...