2025

The September 2025 uprising in Nepal forced Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli from office and left nineteen young people dead in the streets of Kathmandu. This event requires serious analysis from those committed to real social change. While we stand with the youth who risked their lives against a corrupt and violent state, we must also honestly assess what this movement achieved, what it failed to accomplish, and what it reveals about the possibilities and limits of spontaneous rebellion (…)

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Heart Lamp: Selected Stories
by Banu Mushtaq
(Booker Prize Winner 2025)
Translated from Kannada by Deepa Bhasthi
Penguin Random House India
2024
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Reviewed by Dr. Malathi Suramanian

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A recently published book, To Kill A Democracy: India

* Gathering Storm at Ladakh | Bhattacharya, Nag
* Corruption, Privatisation and Workers

The situation in Ladhak strikes us for it seems to be relying precisely on that

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Growing corruption, black money, and the erosion of workers

When the Supreme Court of India recently dismissed a petition to ban Salman Rushdie

26th Asghar Ali Engineer Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Uma Chakravarti, the eminent feminist historian, on October 3, 2025. The occasion reminds us of the sincerity and commitment with which Asghar documented and analysed the communal riots and violence in postcolonial India. In fact, he played a pioneering role in documenting the dark side of Indian history unfolding before our eyes. The book edited by him in the early 1980s, Communal Riots in Post-Independence India (Sangam Books, (…)

On the morning of September 21, as Zubeen Garg