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Crackdown on wildlife artifacts in Karnataka puts Hakki Pikki tribe’s craft at stake
Davanagere: For five decades, the art of crafting artificial tiger claws has been a lifeline for the Hakki Pikki families, a tribe residing in Gopanal village, Channagiri taluk of Davangere district. However,…
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Rethinking Women’s Reservation Bill–A call for bottom-up empowerment
By Moumita Barman The recent introduction of the Women’s Reservation Bill of 2023 in the Indian Parliament marks a significant step towards gender parity in politics. This legislation, also known as the…
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Wrestling with diplomacy–The Indo-Canadian state of affairs
By Mohammed Amaan Khan The realm of international relations is a complex web of affairs and intriguing interactions. In this dynamic environment, the article delves into the diplomatic relations between India and…
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Regulate media consumption when propaganda becomes profitable
By Sarfaraz Nasir Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, once famously defined democracy as ‘government of the people, by the people, for the people’. He said this a couple…
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Legislature remains exempt from efforts to empower the marginalised
By Tanvi Rupakula In August, the Supreme Court took a step forward in combating gender bias embedded in legal language and court proceedings by flagging a list of terms, stereotypes, and phrases…
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Love thy neighbour, yes, but also love animals and the environment you live in
By Asif Khan Every day on my morning walk (in the suburbs of Chicago, the USA) I see the same people. There are times when I see some new people walking their…
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Insights from Claudia Goldin’s research on women’s labour market outcomes
By Apoorva Ramachandra Claudia Goldin won the Nobel Prize in Economics Sciences for “advancing our understanding of women’s labour market outcomes“. Jakob Svensson, Chair of the Committee for the Prize of Economic…
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The Nizam and Swaraj: Osman Ali Khan’s ‘Indianness’ was never in doubt
By Mohammed Ayub Khan Toronto (Canada): The characterization of Hyderabad’s integration into the Indian Union as ‘liberation’ is a problematic proposition. It is based on a selective and simplistic understanding of history…
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Let’s create youngsters who object to and refuse slapping their classmate
By Asma Anjum Khan #Classroom #Education #Slap #Thappad #Aurangzeb #TipuSultanThat child getting slapped turning into a pulp woke me up again. I know, wake up to sleep again. But while I was…
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Dismantling the myth of Muslim population boom in India
By Mohan Rajagopal While at first glance, statistics are considered to be unbiased measures of truth, it remains possible to warp data narratives to suit one’s interests. The politicisation of data is…
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Operation Polo 1948: How Hyderabad’s last Nizam agreed to give up his land for reform
By Pankaj Sethi Land ownership in British India had remained mired in its feudal past. The East India Company, and later the British Crown, took over from the conquered rulers the task…
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Akhilesh’s INDIA signals direction to 2024 Elections
By S Simhadri The historic victory with largest vote share to the winning SP/INDIA Alliance in Ghosi by-election provides direction to the national hope for 2024 elections. The INDIA Alliance headed by…
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We must rethink calling Hyderabad’s Integration into India ‘Liberation’
By Tanvi Rupakula A week before India and Pakistan became independent dominions, the Nizam declared, along with a few other princes, that he would not be joining either nation. This was indeed…
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Mandela’ of India who gave voice to the Marginalised persons
By Sandeep Yadav Nelson Mandela and B P Mandal were born in the same year in 1918. Mandela fought against apartheid, a system of racial segregation in South Africa, while B P…
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Caste-based census in India will show real condition of different groups of people
S Simhadri The tribal Kuki women getting paraded naked, raping and killing by right wing mobs in Manipur shocked India. The police of the state colluding with communal forces and the BJP…
