An ode to a “forgotten” India which needs to be given its rightful place in a Euro-American-centric globe ends up replacing one form of cultural supremacy with another. The obsession with an original centre of intellectual genius ignores cross-cultural exchanges and knowledge produced out of labour.20-Nov-2024
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Mainstream politics in Canada has normalised narratives that South Asian migrants will transform the country into a nation with a non-white majority.
11-Nov-2024
With few educational or job opportunities, Ladakh's youth have to rely on precarious and seasonal employment. Their uncertain future is what is stoking…
07-Nov-2024
The Government of India's crèche scheme, now renamed as Palna, needs revised guidelines and procedures. This analysis questions its sustainability and…
25-Oct-2024
Before the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine, the permanent five members of the UN Security Council shielded their allies from censure. Since R2P, they…
07-Oct-2024
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A double murder in New York in 1910, including that of a “Hindu” butler, was never definitively solved. The police investigation, driven by prejudice and…
18-Nov-2024
A recent genome study of elephants in India sheds new light on their population, divergence, and history. The study identifies five distinct genetic…
04-Nov-2024
Overtourism is often used as a buzzword. For it to remain a useful concept in managing tourist destinations, there needs to be an agreed-upon method for…
06-Oct-2024
'Gumrah', a show that aired in the early 2010s, brought to television the worries and optimism about adolescents in the post-Liberalisation decades.…
11-Oct-2024
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This article about biases among healthcare workers in Kerala impeding access to abortion is an eye-opener for several reasons, not least for the fact that it…
20-Aug-2024
Padmini Swaminathan Chennai

This is a very informative and illuminating analysis of the Rajasthan programme. Though the programme is not conceptualised as 'mostly for women ', this…
24-Jul-2024
Padmini Swaminathan, Chennai

The article “A Field Study of Rajasthan’s Urban Employment Guarantee Programme” is an important study documenting the working of the IRGY programme and its…
24-Jul-2024
Krishna Priya Choragudi , PhD Student, IIT Delhi

The hypothetical example given in the article while commenting on the sampling methodology gives the example of a block with 50,000 households from which 18…
09-Jul-2024
PC Mohanan, Kozhikode
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01 Nov 2024
Redesigning Reservations: How Heterogeneous are the Scheduled Castes?, Feminisation of Public Employment in India, The Split that Forged an Alliance, and more
04 Oct 2024
Where did Covid come from?, Motherhood and working women, Nuclear isn't the solution, and much more
06 Sep 2024
Demographic Change, the North-South Divide and Internal Migration in India; Muslim Legislative Representation in India; Budget 2024 and India’s Macroeconomic Challenges; and more
02 Aug 2024
The Congress in a New Ideological Avatar, Hopelessness and Despair in Bihar, Electoral Bonds, Incumbency Advantage, and Concentration of Political Power, and more
05 Jul 2024
Verdict 2024, Why government canteens are important, Renaming caste and retaining privilege, and more
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