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Newsrooms or War Rooms: The Collapse of Credibility | Adfer Rashid Shah
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From Watchdog to Echo Chambers: Media Bias and the Erosion of Democratic Values | Apoorva Pandey
7 June 2025At a time, when the world was grappling with the harrowing 9/11 terrorist attack in the United States of America, a small country in East Africa was set to undergo a radical transformation that was going to alter the nation
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What Do We Learn, If Not to Question? Reflections from post-Pahalgam India | Sunit Singh
7 June 2025What do we actually mean by learning something? Is it memorising facts, writing exams, getting a good job, or achieving a certain social status? I know a doctor who has been practising medicine for almost 15 years, yet he does not allow his daughter to enter the puja ghar (small temple in the house) or kitchen during her periods. Is he a learned person? Has he truly learned medicine? This brings us to a deeper question: What does learning actually mean, especially in the context of the (…)
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Understanding the Human Cost of
7 June 2025Executed through a Presidential Order, followed by the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, on August 5, 2019, India downgraded the state of J&K to a Union Territory. The rationale behind the abrogation of article 370 and 35-A was to integrate J&K with the rest of India, start a robust economic development, ending discrimination, curbing terrorism and separatism apart from the other arguments advanced by the Central Government such as legal and constitutional, a political and (…)
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Still a Queen Without a Crown | Ankita
7 June 2025The discussion on gender inequality has always been a never-ending topic. Although technology has advanced across various fields, with the rise of service sectors and the AI generation reaching its peak, there is still a wide gap between the two genders. I am referring to the gap in opportunities provided and the power of control over decision-making. Power is still largely vested in the hands of men. This essay argues that in both domestic and public life, women’s autonomy is undermined by (…)
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Decode the Menstrual Taboos | Richa Walia
7 June 2025Every 28 May, we observe
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Participatory Museology: Museums Engaging with the Future | Prashant Khattri, Keyoor Pathak
7 June 2025Life resonates even from lifeless objects, hence museums are much more than just collection of
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Statistics & Starvation: Expose the Myth of Modi
7 June 2025, by D RajaIndia is being paraded on global and national platforms as the world
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India out of work: Unemployed youth become
7 June 2025May 21, 2025
About 28 million unemployed educated youth in India are looking for jobs. And about 100 million, mostly women, have stopped looking for jobs.
by Santosh Mehrotra
The employment rate, or the share of the working-age and youth population finding work [1], is falling in India.
Our own study, based on an Indian government agency data [2], however, shows, that this is not the case.
However, that is because of its definitions of what is -
Statement against arbitrary crackdown and to push out Bangladeshis | May 30, 2025
7 June 2025We, Banglar Manabadhikar Suraksha Mancha (MASUM), a human rights organization working for decades to monitor the India