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Novelist Han Kang, delivers her first public speech after winning the Nobel Prize in Literature at the 18th Pony Chung Innovation Award ceremony in Seoul, South Korea, on October 17, 2024.

Korea through Han Kang’s The Vegetarian

Han’s novel critiques Korean society and the violence that lies beneath its surface. This year’s Nobel Prize honours her statement of resistance.

Street children at a slum in Hyderabad, a file photograph. Children comprise the most vulnerable section of the population in terms of food and nutrition security.

Global Hunger Index

India’s 2024 GHI rank: Marginal improvement masks deep-rooted nutrition crisis

Child wasting, stunting, and undernutrition still remain formidable challenges, compounded by the lack of critical data.

T.K. Rajalakshmi

Stories that are close to the bone

From menstrual taboos to interfaith marriage: Shahina K. Rafiq’s unabashed collection reveals intimate truths of Indian women’s lives.

Chittajit Mitra

Rohini Godbole (1952-2024): The physicist who refused to choose between science and justice

She died as she lived—pursuing both particle physics and gender justice with equal passion at the Indian Institute of Science.

Nandita Jayaraj

The tuition centre has produced 100 per cent results in the nine years of its existence.

Vyasai Thozhargal’s free school in North Chennai shows how grassroots education movements can empower communities

Blending academics with social justice training, it aims to create young leaders who can question discrimination and access constitutional rights.

Siddarth Muralidharan

‘The Dystopian Times’ by Appupen

Maharashtra: A State in flux

As the State’s Assembly elections approach, will it be able to confront pressing issues like urban decay, agrarian crisis, and political instability?

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New graduates at KLE Technological University in Hubballi, in 2019. There is a downward mobility in the market, with candidates having advanced degrees being forced to take up low-end and low-paid jobs.

Overqualified and underemployed: India’s graduate crisis in the AI era

Outdated curricula, underfunded education, and the rapid advancement of AI are creating a perfect storm of unemployability for young graduates.

Sujoy Chakravarty

At a massive protest in Shimla demanding the demolition of “illegal” structures in a mosque in the Sanjauli locality, on September 11.

Himachal Pradesh simmers as Hindutva outfits target minorities

A minor local dispute has escalated into a State-wide campaign of polarisation that threatens social harmony as well as the tourism industry.

T.K. Rajalakshmi

G.N. Saibaba in Hyderabad on August 23, 2024.

G.N. Saibaba’s death is an injustice

What was the real crime of Saibaba? He constantly raised his voice for the human rights of the weak, the oppressed and the wronged by the system.

Prime Minister Morarji Desai presenting the National UNESCO Award for 1977 to Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay in New Delhi on December 18, 1977.

Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay: The rebel who saw tomorrow

Nico Slate highlights how much of today’s feminist dialogue echoes feminist freedom fighter Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay’s ideas from decades ago.

Uma Mahadevan-Dasgupta

Junior doctors take out the “Abhaya Parikrama” rally to protest against the R.G. Kar rape and murder case during the Durga Puja festival, in Kolkata on October 9.

Doctors intensify agitation with indefinite hunger strike to demand justice for R.G. Kar victim

Mass resignations of senior doctors follow as the government stalls on reforms, while Puja celebrations take on sombre tone amid the ongoing crisis.

Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay

A. Soundararajan, general secretary of CITU, Tamil Nadu says Samsung is determined to prevent unions by resorting to aggressive methods.

Our main demand is recognition of the union; if that happens, we will call off strike: A. Soundararajan

The Tamil Nadu CITU general secretary says this strike is about workers’ constitutional right to form associations under Article 19(1).

Siddarth Muralidharan

E. Muthukumar, president of the Samsung India Workers Union, hopes that this strike ends in victory for the workers.

No difference between what is said by Samsung and Tamil Nadu government: E. Muthukumar

The SIWU president states that the strike focusses on the right to unionise and says victory for trade union rights is a victory for everyone.

Siddarth Muralidharan

The Dystopian Times by Appupen

‘The Dystopian Times’ by Appupen

The community, which has called Delhi home for three generations, awaits a crucial court decision on October 23.

Delhi’s Madrasi Camp and its 2,000 Tamil migrants face demolition threat

Home to working class Tamils for over 60 years, this colony in Jangpura, Delhi’s migrant haven, gets caught in the BJP-AAP crossfire.

Vitasta Kaul,Vedaant Lakhera

Indian botanist Janaki Ammal

Alma and her sisters

Anusua Mukherjee

The Union government concedes that marriage does not negate a woman’s consent and argues that violations of consent within marriage have different consequences than those outside marriage.

Supreme Court deliberations on marital rape exception could redefine consent within marriage

The Centre argues for maintaining ‘Marital Rape Exception’, but those seeking its repeal say it violates women’s rights, bodily autonomy, and dignity.

In 1933, Mahatma Gandhi renamed his newspaper Young India as Harijan, and asked for a message for the inaugural issue from Ambedkar.

Why Ambedkar rejected Gandhi’s idea of Dalit emancipation

He rebuffed Gandhi’s Harijan Sevak Sangh, viewing it as a paternalistic tool that reinforced caste Hindu dominance rather than empowering Dalits.

Anand Teltumbde

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