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D.N. Jha: Eating of beef was de rigeur in ancient India.

'A political tool'

Interview with D.N. Jha, historian of ancient India and the author of The Myth of the Holy Cow'. (Published in the issue dated February 12, 2012.)
AJOY ASHIRWAD MAHAPRASHASTA
New Delhi: President Pranab Mukherjee being received first copy of the book 'The Wing Wonders of Rashtrapati Bhavan' released by Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a function at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi on Friday. Author Thomas Mathew (R), Additional Secretary to The President is also seen. PTI Photo by Vijay Verma (PTI7_25_2014_000293B)

Recording events for posterity

Interview with Thomas Matthew, Additional Secretary to the President.
AJOY ASHIRWAD MAHAPRASHASTA
Elevated View of RB

A peep into the past

Abode under the Dome documents the significant events that the Rashtrapati Bhavan hosted during the 1950s and 1960s and weaves a narrative around the
AJOY ASHIRWAD MAHAPRASHASTA
New Delhi: JNUSU President Kanhaiya Kumar with Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya celebrates later's release at JNU Campus in New Delhi after Delhi’s Patiala House Court on Friday granted six-month interim bail to JNU students Anirban and Umar, slapped with sedition charges. PTI Photo by Vijay Verma (PTI3_18_2016_000286b)

Rising spirits

The JNUSU believes that the bail granted to Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya vindicates its stand that the Delhi Police had no evidence to implica
AJOY ASHIRWAD MAHAPRASHASTA
NEW DELHI, 07/03/2016: Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union (JNUSU), president Kanhaiya Kumar speaks during an interview at JNU Campus, in Delhi on March 07, 2016. Photo: Shiv Kumar Pushpakar

‘To save syncretic culture’

Interview with Kanhaiya Kumar.
Ajoy Ashirwad Mahaprashasta
KALABURAGI-KARNATAKA; The landless agricultural labourers involved in digging the trenches for planting the saplings of different varities of trees at Honna Kiranagi village in Kalaburagi taluk under the MNREGA works.

Job scheme in decline

The increase in the budgetary allocation for the MGNREGA is only marginal. The scheme helped lower the poverty level by 32 per cent between 2004-05 an
AJOY ASHIRWAD MAHAPRASHASTA
Mandya Karnataka 07_January_2016 : The Government Lower Primary School established in 1999 at Hemavathi Layout in K.R. Pet of Mandya district, lacks classrooms, toilets and other facilities. PHOTOS BY - B_MAHADEVA

Partial vision

At a time when the basic structure of the education system, right from the primary school to the higher education level, needs a significant budgetary
AJOY ASHIRWAD MAHAPRASHASTA
NEW DELHI, 07/03/2016: JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar with Vice President Shehla Rashid speaking at JNU campus in New Delhi on March 07, 2016. Photo: Sushil Kumar Verma

Leading the debate

JNU students vow to intensify the struggle for their constitutional and democratic right to criticise the government’s anti-people policies.
Ajoy Ashirwad Mahaprashasta
A demonstrator shouts slogans and waves the Indian national flag as she takes part in a protest demanding the release of Kanhaiya Kumar, a Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student union leader accused of sedition, in New Delhi, India, February 18, 2016. REUTERS/Anindito Mukherjee

In defence of JNU

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
AJOY ASHIRWAD MAHAPRASHASTA,DIVYA TRIVEDI
New Delhi: JNUSU Vice President Shehla Rashid addresses a press conference in JNU campus in New Delhi on Friday. PTI Photo by Kamal Singh (PTI2_19_2016_000266B)

‘Politics enriches our education’

Interview with Shehla Rashid Shora, vice-president, JNUSU.
AJOY ASHIRWAD MAHAPRASHASTA
NEW DELHI, 22/02/2016: Anant Prakash Narayan, student of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), one of the five students wanted by the police, at JNU in Delhi on February 22, 2016.aa__Photo: Shanker Chakravarty

Profiles, real and concocted

Coming mostly from impoverished backgrounds and marginalised communities, the implicated JNU students have one other thing in common: passion to uphol
AJOY ASHIRWAD MAHAPRASHASTA,DIVYA TRIVEDI
Indian policemen escort Mohammad Afzal (L) to an anti-terrorism court in New Delhi in this December 18, 2002 file photograph. India has executed a Kashmiri militant who was sentenced to death 10 years ago for an attack on the Indian parliament in 2001, a senior interior ministry official said on February 8, 2013. The country's president rejected a mercy petition from Mohammad Afzal Guru and he was hung at dawn, TV channels said. REUTERS/B Mathur /Files (INDIA - Tags: CRIME LAW)

An old dream and a new horse to flog

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
VENKITESH RAMAKRISHNAN,AJOY ASHIRWAD MAHAPRASHASTA
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