Will M S Subbulakshmi’s Name Be Erased From All Memorials?
The Madras High Court’s verdict restraining ‘The Hindu’ from giving an award in the name of M.S. Subbulakshmi to musician T.M. Krishna raises a…
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How Governor-Government Spats Are Sullying Higher Education
Deadlock over the selection process of VCs has led to vacant cabins in universities across states. Academics, university teachers, students and scholars are united…
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How The High Courts in India Have Acted on Marital Rape Cases
In May 2024, the Madhya Pradesh High Court held that consent of the wife is immaterial; In March 2022, the Karnataka High Court ruled…
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AMMA, The ‘Mother’ Who Failed Its Wards
The single biggest point on which the Association of Malayalam Movie Artists is trolled online has been its acronym–AMMA. Every time this actors’ body…
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Boycotting Polls: The Story Of A Farmers’ Protest In Tamil Nadu That Has Been Going On For Over 600 Days
The residents of 13 villages in Kanchipuram district fear getting displaced to make way for a swanky airport. Most of them won’t be voting…
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The Slow-Burning South: How Ram Janmabhoomi Movement Made Its Way Into South India
‘‘Do you have an idol of Ram in your prayer room?” asks one of the several saffron-clad volunteers who have been knocking on doors…
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How Frequent Are Internet Shutdowns In India, What’s The Effect Of Communication Blockades?
The country has undergone internet shutdowns 805 times since 2012, according to the data collated by Software Freedom Law Centre, India. More than half…
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Tamil Nadu’s New Airport At Parandur Will Be An Ecological Disaster, Say Environmentalists
Factors like impact on agriculture and water resources and the resultant human displacement were not considered before selecting the location A farmer farming in…
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The Feminist Approach To Uniform Civil Code: A Long Way To Go
Feminists movements first welcomed the idea of a Uniform Civil Code. But as right-wingers hijacked the proposal, they retracted and called for reforms in…
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Refugee To Illegal Migrant: The Journey Of Sri Lankan Tamils To India
Unlike other refugee communities in India, Sri Lankan Tamils have a unique claim that they are not technically refugees, but they have to be…
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