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Rohin Bhatt merges their roles as a queer lawyer and activist to document India’s pivotal marriage equality case, where the Supreme Court denied same-sex couples the right to marry.

There is no other way of surviving other than hoping: Rohin Bhatt

The non-binary lawyer chronicles the fight for queer marriage rights in India.

Mridula Vijayarangakumar

At a construction site in New Delhi on April 30, 2009. Syeda’s story busts several myths about women in general and Muslim women in particular. It opens our eyes to industrial growth and development, smart cities, labour laws, government policies, and welfare programmes.

The invisible she: How working-class women bear the weight of India’s economy

Neha Dixit’s The Many Lives of Syeda X is uniquely authentic and eye-opening in portraying womenfolk in big South Asian cities.

BJP’s agenda is to defame Muslims: Syed Naseer Hussain

MP and member of the JPC says the BJP wants to desecularise India.

Vikhar Ahmed Sayeed

WAQF AMENDMENT—THE LEDE

Propriety, not just property: The Waqf debate

Since the impacts of the amendments will go far beyond legal changes, the government must balance reforms with the rights of the Muslim community.

Shaikh Mujibur Rehman

The historic Bidar fort in Karnataka. Large chunks of lands were given as grants by royal personages over the centuries, which account for a sizeable proportion of waqf properties.

Right move, wrong motive? Waqf Bill promises better management but delivers state control

The changes would remove key protections for waqf properties, centralising control under government officials rather than community representatives.

P.S. Munawar Hussain

Who really benefits from the Waqf Amendment Bill?

While some provisions attempt to address corruption and mismanagement, the Bill contradicts BJP government’s stated “one nation, one law” principle.

Editor’s Note: Putting Muslims in their place?

Behind the façade of Waqf reforms lies a sinister and systematic campaign to further marginalise the country’s largest minority.

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College students led a rally as part of the anti-Hindi agitations, in Coimbatore in February 1965.

How anti-Hindi protests of the 1960s created India’s most successful regional political movement

The agitation proved singular: it toppled a regime, rewrote India’s language policy, and established Dravidian party rule that continues even today.

Karthick Ram Manoharan

Among female faculty, surveys have found a decline in representation as their seniority grew.

Indian women enter STEM fields in record numbers. But why do they vanish from academic positions?

While India boasts of a 40 per cent enrolment of women in STEM fields, they make up only 16 per cent of faculty positions. What’s pushing them out?

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.

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

Scenes from daily life in Allepey, Kerala.

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

Physicist Rohini Godbole. She predicted the Drees-Godbole Effect for particle colliders while compelling male scientists to count the missing women in their midst.

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

Maratha Kranti Morcha staged a protest near the collector’s office in Bandra during a day-long bandh demanding reservation.

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?

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.

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