SIDDHARTH NARRAIN takes a closer look at the historical circumstances that led to the first amendment of the Indian Constitution. THE Constitution (First Amendment Act), 1951 remains one of the most ...
The CAG report found that the BJP-led Gujarat government failed to utilise the funds released to its forest department. Image Courtesy: Rawpixel New Delhi: Government agencies in Prime Minister ...
The rejection of community resource claims has triggered anxieties among the Tharu tribals in Uttar Pradesh’s Surma village. Image for representational use only.Image Courtesy : RuralIndia The Supreme ...
More than a nostalgic piece of literature, ‘The Constitution is My Home’ is a secular feminist manifesto with the potential to delineate a ‘Theory of Post-Colonial Indian Political Thought and ...
Durgawati Devi was a key participant in Chandra Shekhar Azad and Bhagat Singh’s Hindustan Socialist Republican Army. As many revolutionaries were on the run, and several others were under constant ...
Hindutva proponents dislike these historians because they talk about divisions of caste and class, and why ‘national’ histories must always speak of a common past of the entire people. Today, the ...
The life and times of religious minorities in both Punjabs are being erased from popular memory of the partition. The challenge is to salvage the shared legacy of its people. No violence occurs ...
The Tamil nationalist party, NTK claims to advocate the cause of native Tamils but also propagates the divisive idea that Dravidians are different from Tamils. Representational use only. The ...
For some villages, such as Bango, scores of people born disabled, bodies shrivelling at age 40, loss of land, property, and livelihood, are a normalised cry of pain. Sharvari says she is tired of ...
Left groups held strong protests in Delhi’s Jantar Mantar in support of the workers' movement and against police repression in North India. Left parties held a joint protest at Jantar Mantar in Delhi ...
Kalidaspur/Hetalbari: “The syncretic goddess Bonbibi holds us together during our trips to the islands infested by Dakhin Ray (a term for tiger). She is a half-human goddess with huge powers, who we ...
The newly introduced provision under Section 226 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Samhita affirms the criminalisation of protests, such as indefinite hunger strike. Image Credit: The Leaflet In the British ...
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