INTERVIEW: D.N. JHA 'A political tool'AJOY ASHIRWAD MAHAPRASHASTAInterview 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.)
Interview: Thomas Mathew Recording events for posterityAJOY ASHIRWAD MAHAPRASHASTAInterview with Thomas Matthew, Additional Secretary to the President.
Rashtrapati Bhavan A peep into the pastAJOY ASHIRWAD MAHAPRASHASTAAbode under the Dome documents the significant events that the Rashtrapati Bhavan hosted during the 1950s and 1960s and weaves a narrative around the
JNU Rising spiritsAJOY ASHIRWAD MAHAPRASHASTAThe JNUSU believes that the bail granted to Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya vindicates its stand that the Delhi Police had no evidence to implica
JNU Leading the debateAjoy Ashirwad MahaprashastaJNU students vow to intensify the struggle for their constitutional and democratic right to criticise the government’s anti-people policies.
Education Partial visionAJOY ASHIRWAD MAHAPRASHASTAAt a time when the basic structure of the education system, right from the primary school to the higher education level, needs a significant budgetary
MGNREGS Job scheme in declineAJOY ASHIRWAD MAHAPRASHASTAThe 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
Interview: Kanhaiya Kumar ‘To save syncretic culture’Ajoy Ashirwad MahaprashastaInterview with Kanhaiya Kumar.
The agenda An old dream and a new horse to flogVENKITESH RAMAKRISHNANAJOY ASHIRWAD MAHAPRASHASTAThe rhetoric of nationalism is being used by the ruling dispensation to deflect attention from pressing problems and to chase the Sangh Parivar’s ol
Background Profiles, real and concoctedAJOY ASHIRWAD MAHAPRASHASTADIVYA TRIVEDIComing mostly from impoverished backgrounds and marginalised communities, the implicated JNU students have one other thing in common: passion to uphol
Interview: Shehla Rashid Shora ‘Politics enriches our education’AJOY ASHIRWAD MAHAPRASHASTAInterview with Shehla Rashid Shora, vice-president, JNUSU.
Freebie phobia: The BJP’s concerted attack on redistributive transfers Although the BJP is against ‘freebies’ in principle, in practice it has been forced to use a version of concessions and transfers to counter the o
SlideshowLiving on the edgeThey are river people, whose lives ebb and flow with the waters of the Brahmaputra in a timeless rhythm. But now, hydroelectric projects and homogenis
