The government’s moves certainly place a large and vital chunk of India’s space programme in the hands of the nascent private ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

DU teachers hailed the judgment as a breather as they had to go through the traumatic pandemic without any funds. In a major victory for employees of the Delhi University (DU), the Supreme Court ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 mesmerising beauty of North Bengal often conceals its underlying struggles. North Bengal is a region of extremes. Popularly recognised either for the breathtaking hills of Darjeeling or its ...

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 ...

Bose's approach to history discarded the religious approach, therefore, it is important to revisit his worldview rooted in our composite culture. Today, while celebrating the 126th birth anniversary ...