2025

I first met Krishna Thapar in Chandigarh. She was a diminutive woman dressed in a white salwar kameez and dupatta, with a face that was wrought with exquisite lines as she had witnessed the most excruciating pain. Her father Achint Ram Thapar had raised her cousin, Sukhdev, whose father Ram Lal Thapar died when he was only three. Sukhdev had been hanged by the British along with Bhagat Singh and Rajguru. However, little or nothing is known about the women who supported Sukhdev. Krishna ji (…)

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The Meghaduta through its translation by Abhay K. is re-imagined here as a portrayal of love, longing, sensuality and spirituality, all combined into one play. The Yaksha

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In the wake of the recent backlash against the comedian Samay Raina and his fellow panellists on India’s Got Latent, the controversy underscores the persistent tensions between free expression and moral censorship in India. Marked by multiple FIRs, it raises critical questions about whether India is prepared to engage with profanity-laced humour beyond traditional boundaries. The study examines the ideological and structural underpinnings of selective outrage, drawing upon themes (…)

There is a definite well-thought-out rightist design behind US President Donald Trump

Deeply sad to hear about the demise of Dr A K Biswas, one of the foremost historians of the Bahujan movement who has been consistently writing on issues hitherto kept under the carpet by the mainstream Brahmanical

The Congress government in Telangana is mired in a controversy pertaining to the results of the caste enumeration it made public. The Congress under the leadership of Rahul Gandhi promised caste enumeration as part of the party

The jammed roads to the Kumbh religious conclave on the eve of ’Mahashivaratri’ explains the state of politics in India. Tax concessions to the upper middle class pushed them to have double dips: one in the Triveni and another in a hotel room. They have to protect themselves from disease. They will sell their vehicle and buy one from Trump’s nominee, Musk, who is establishing his car plant in India or importing the vehicles from the factory in China. They will leave Modi behind to join the (…)

Indian External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar stated at Chatham House, London, on March 6 that the only outstanding issue with Pakistan in reference to Jammu and Kashmir was Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (PoK) and would be solved the day that part of Kashmir was re-occupied by India.
Jaishankar must have chuckled when he said this because he was replying to a question on Kashmir raised by some Pakistani journalist in London, asking about the Indo-Pak dispute over Kashmir lasting all the 78 (…)

The world is witnessed to unusual and mind-boggling developments in recent days on the efforts to end the war in Ukraine. The roots of such efforts,must no doubt be traced to Donald Trump

Given the rise of conservative parties following Jair Bolsonaro