Interview with Shehla Rashid Shora, vice-president, JNUSU.

The crackdown on Jawaharlal Nehru University and the aggressive campaign with focus on its “anti-national character” is part of a Sangh Parivar plan t

An astonishing new generation is coming up from subaltern ranks, gathering some of its intellectual and political resources from leading public univer

The rhetoric of nationalism is being used by the ruling dispensation to deflect attention from pressing problems and to chase the Sangh Parivar’s old

Why does the university matter? It matters because in the present state of affairs the university represents the idea of pluralism, an inclusive appro

Barack Obama was caught between the “good war” and the “bad war”, but not all the presidential candidates who are in the race to succeed him share his

The control of the government at the Centre over autonomous institutions such as Central universities undermines academic and administrative freedom.

Significant Indian contributions to theoretical source modelling and data analysis made the LIGO discovery of September 2015 possible.

Nationhood under the BJP government, conflated with Hinduism, is defined more by what it excludes than what it includes. Anything that this regimented

Coming mostly from impoverished backgrounds and marginalised communities, the implicated JNU students have one other thing in common: passion to uphol

Charges of corruption, cronyism and nepotism against President Jacob Zuma have put the government on the back foot in a country already reeling under

O.N.V. Kurup (1931-2016) wrote poetry from the heart, inspired by the grind, sorrows and joys of ordinary people, their simple songs and their hopes f

Recent instances of the law enforcers’ recourse to the law on sedition point to its inherent potential for abuse.

The “cessation of hostilities” agreement announced seems to be mainly aimed at facilitating speedy delivery of essential humanitarian aid to areas in

The Living and Learning Design Centre in a Kutch village is about dialogue between contemporary designers and traditional artisans and about keeping c

David Headley, the LeT operative, does not reveal anything new in his video deposition from the United States in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks case

Harper Lee (1926-2016), the author of To Kill a Mockingbird, will never be forgotten as long as there are people who love the magic of the written wo

Interview with Nishant Shah, co-founder of the Centre for Internet and Society, Bengaluru.

Interview with Sitaram Yechury, CPI(M) general secretary.

The TRAI fires the first salvo in favour of protecting Net neutrality, but the battle to keep the Internet free from control by commercial interests r

The LIGO-India project, which has been approved by the Union Cabinet, was a vision of the IndIGO Consortium, a multi-institutional multidisciplinary c

The Jat agitation blows up in the Haryana government’s face, bringing the issue of reservation back into focus and widening the divide between variou

Interview with Anand Sharma, Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha.

The book is a comprehensive and substantial contribution to an understanding of the West Asian political and economic scenario and the historical and

The first detection of the sounds of the cosmos may be the harbinger of more such signals, which may tell us new things about the universe.

The Supreme Court missed an opportunity to clear the ambiguity in Section 124A of the IPC, the law of sedition, in the Kedar Nath Singh case. It is hi

Interview with Bikramaditya K. Choudhary, Secretary, JNUTA.

Interview with Gautam Bhatia, advocate in the High Court of Delhi.

Building a laser interferometer with the enormous sensitivity required to "hear" faraway black holes colliding was the result of a continuou

A portal working towards establishing an informed Ambedkar age makes an impressive debut.

The gravitational waves detected by the LIGO observatories in the United States on September 14, 2015, while validating Einstein’s theory of general r

The government’s attempt to crush the JNU spirit, which is reminiscent of the dark days of the Emergency, is in line with the RSS’ antipathy to the un