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The writer is a member of Compost Heap, a group of academics and activists working on alternative imaginations.

Afrazul Khan, a migrant labourer from West Bengals Malda district who was working as a mason in Rajasthan. Khan was hacked and burnt alive by one Shambhulal Regar at Rajasamand in Rajasthan. The brutal murder was captured on camera by Shambhulals teenaged nephew.

Murder most foul as pedagogic warning

We confront two kinds of violence, one that is codified into institutions and another that is institutional violence.

20 Dec 2017 2:01 AM IST

Rahul Gandhi was paying a visit to the temple ahead of a two-day campaign in the state and is expected to address multiple rallies. (Photo: Twitter/@INCGujarat)

When religion trumps citizenship

The BJP's acts of moral policing, whether of food, dress or sexuality, or even movies, has been a source of deep...

10 Dec 2017 12:12 AM IST

Arab worlds richest nation, Saudi Arabia, commits genocide on the Arab worlds poorest country, Yemen.

Yemen's tragedy: Is the world's conscience completely dead?

Yemen happens to be captive to the Houthi rebels, who obtain aid from Iran.

24 Nov 2017 6:41 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday asserted that it is now easier to do business in India than ever before. (Photo: AP)

We should do a major rethink about security

To appoint a security official to head the negotiation already closes options in the imagination.

15 Nov 2017 1:10 AM IST

Home Minister Rajnath Singh said there will be a solution soon on Doklam standoff. (Photo: PTI)

Truth , the first step to restoring J&K's dignity

The conference was an appeal to listening and the vital role that listening as an art and a ritual plays in a...

29 Oct 2017 12:31 AM IST

Amitabh Bachchan

The perennial man

Amitabh reinvents himself as a quizmaster in Kaun Banega Crorepati.

13 Oct 2017 1:04 AM IST

When family values and interests define or determine the public domain, we have nepotism.

Nepotism and Meritocracy

The modern norm calls for merit, and the best example are the various competitive exams from IIT to IAS.

4 Oct 2017 3:17 AM IST

It's time to democratise science in India

The academies were playing plagiarist while the laymen were seeking to sustain scientific argument.

2 Oct 2017 12:41 AM IST

Indias Prime Minister Narendra Modi talks to journalists after a Memorandum of Understanding ceremony at the President House in Naypyitaw, Myanmar on Wednesday, Sept 6, 2017. (Photo: AP)

How India normalises' violence

Narendra Modi is symptomatic of it, but he is a mere case study than an analytical tool.

14 Sept 2017 2:07 AM IST

Editor, social activist and a virulent critic of right-wing groups, Gauri Lankesh, was shot dead Tuesday night outside her residence in Bengaluru. (Photo: Facebook)

Without fear or favour

Conversations resounded with the idea of Gauri Lankesh as a radical and the radical as someone to be dispensed with.

11 Sept 2017 1:14 AM IST

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Why we need a science column

A science column stands at the confluence of great efforts.

28 July 2017 1:05 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (Photo: PTI)

BJP's nemesis: The politics of paranoia

The great circle of violence that the Narendra Modi regime has constructed has no narrative.

6 July 2017 5:29 AM IST