India@75 Har Ghar Tiranga: When civic symbolism becomes more critical than civic actionGautam BhatiaSo great is the mistrust that enforcing a picture-book nationalism becomes a necessity.
Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill Transgender Persons Bill: Identity crisis Anando BhaktoThe transgender community is unhappy with the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill that seeks to treat transgender persons as inferior citi
Jai Bhim film controversy Casteists vs artists: Controversy surrounds Tamil film "Jai Bhim"Ilangovan Rajasekaran“Jai Bhim”, a gripping Tamil film portraying a tribal woman’s fight for justice, is in the eye of a storm after coming under attack by casteist and ri
EDUCATION Why have West Bengal’s Bills on new Chancellor of State universities triggered an outcry?Suhrid Sankar ChattopadhyayWest Bengal’s Bills to replace the Governor with the Chief Minister as Chancellor of State universities triggers an outcry from the opposition as also
Uttar Pradesh Targeted demolitions: Uttar Pradesh back to bulldozer tactics yet againVenkitesh RamakrishnanThe Uttar Pradesh government resorts to bulldozer tactics yet again, this time to terrorise Muslims in Aligarh, but the Supreme Court’s timely interve
JUDICIARY Using the loopholes: Delhi HC disallows filing of FIRs against BJP leadersT.K. RajalakshmiA Delhi High Court bench has disallowed the filing of FIRs against two BJP leaders who allegedly made hate speeches during the anti-CAA protests at Sh
Teesta Setalvad Targeting an activistAnupama KatakamThere is no end in sight to the cases against human rights activist and lawyer Teesta Setalvad who has rubbed the authorities the wrong way with her f
DEFENCE In a nutshellSeshadri KumarAll new recruits from 2022 to be called Agniveers and taken in on four-year contracts
Essay Servile SanghA.G. NooraniLetters written by RSS leaders to the Prime Minister seeking release from jail during the Emergency reveal the opportunistic side of the Sangh, ready
Documentary Transcending barriersDivya TrivediTranscender, a documentary that captures the life of K. Prithika Yashini, the first transgender person to join the police force in India, calls for a
NFHS-5 Findings NFHS-5: Marking transformation in a billion livesRamesh ChakrapaniThe most recent family health survey throws up a plethora of interesting data that offer a peek into the changes in a post-pandemic society, and point
Sri Lanka Crisis Tamil Nadu sends the first consignment of food, medicine, and other relief aid to Sri Lanka R.K. RadhakrishnanTamil Nadu sends the first consignment of rice, milk powder and essential medicines to Sri Lanka on May 19, signalling a shift in the relation between
Communalism Orgy of myth makingWith a BJP government at the Centre, rewriting history and suppressing alternative points of view seem to be the order of the day.
SlideshowCaptured in timeAs independent India turns 75, some of the defining images of those seven decades.