Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said, “The demolition of the Babri Masjid is not just a destruction of a mosque – it is an unparalleled crime that has deeply wounded the country like the assassination of Gandhi,” Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said that it was unfortunate that criminals in the case were not punished. […]
Read Moreby Dr. Ravi Sinha In this lecture we take you to the deepest layers of the microcosm where vacuum becomes an active participant in generating the fundamental properties of matter. This is the story of the discovery and the chiselling of the “jewel of physics” – the most successful theory in science where theory matches […]
Read MoreNIVEDITA MENON AND ADITYA NIGAM This post is jointly written by NIVEDITA MENON & ADITYA NIGAM Bloomsbury India has withdrawn the book Delhi Riots 2020 in the face of massive outrage at its publication. While we commend Bloomsbury’s decision to withdraw, we also note that its statement explaining this act ends with the the following sentence: ‘Bloomsbury India strongly […]
Read MoreSevanti Ninan The crony State helps create monopoly. If you want to bring powerful private players to heel, you cannot afford to be a soft State. That is as true of tackling the media and the digital economy as it is of banking and industry. The antitrust hearings, which played out in the US legislature […]
Read MoreBadri Raina What we are witnessing is forthrightly a work-in-progress whereby the concept “majority” may no longer be understood as a democratic-electoral majority but quite unambiguously, a Hindu majority, regardless of the schisms within India’s Hindu social order. The constitution of India is there, like many other artifacts in the archives, but, like the […]
Read MoreSevanti Ninan At a time when much of the world’s media is battling a financial crisis, one inscrutable benefactor looms large. The irony, of course, is that this is the country that created the current crisis by being the originating point for Covid-19. But since China is neither short of money nor ambition, it is […]
Read MoreAnand K. Sahay Editors have become ‘faceless technicians’ By and large, journalism in India has been a mirror image of its rickety- and tawdry- democracy in the Modi years, and has probably hit its lowest point after the commencement of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s second term in office in May, 2019, with a bigger mandate […]
Read MoreBy Derek O’Brien A tribute to the quintessential Quiz Master of all seasons in the form of, what else, a quiz It was on this day four years ago that my father, Neil O’Brien, left for the Big Library in the Sky. As a man always surrounded by books – as an author, a publisher, an […]
Read MoreMinneapolis is a microcosm of the broad national struggle There are so many prisms through which to view the tectonic events taking place on America’s streets since the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, but to my mind the most important is that our country is in the process of renegotiating its founding motto, […]
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