Bertolt Brecht
How a famous Brecht poem became both the reason and the subtext to implicate prominent HRDs in India
BHU
ABVP members assault BHU students hosting gender equality event
Bezwada Wilson
Stop killing us in sewers and septic tanks: Bezwada Wilson
AMU
AMU declared fifth best India University in India Today-Mudra Survey
Allahabad University VC
Former Allahabad University teachers write open letter to President over crisis caused by VC Hangloo

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Indian Village
Rural Households Have Just Enough Monthly Surplus To Buy A Ceiling Fan
gold
When gold prices go up, so does the cost of a dowry – and baby girl survival rates in India fall
Iran
Attack in Iran raises spectre of a potentially far larger conflagration

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Ambedkar and the Sangh Parivar
Repeated attempts by the RSS-driven Sangh Parivar to appropriate Dr BR Ambedkar throw up contradictions and evasions
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Hindutva and Democracy
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Safdar Hashmi Memorial Trust and Westland Publications invite you to the release of MEMORY IN THE AGE OF amnesia by Saeed Akhtar Mirza The author will be in conversation with Siddharth Varadarajan, Founding Editor, The Wire Seema Mustafa, Editor-in-Chief, The Citizen

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Allahabad University VC
Former Allahabad University teachers write open letter to President over crisis caused by VC Hangloo
24 Sep 2018
Addressed to the Hon’ble Visitor of AU (The President) the letter spoke about the shocking revelations about the VC three years in office and how he misused his post for an exhaustive list of illegal activities.   Allahabad: In a scathing...
Bertolt Brecht
How a famous Brecht poem became both the reason and the subtext to implicate prominent HRDs in India
24 Sep 2018
The Good Person of Szechuan is a play by famous playwright Bertolt Brecht. Brecht started writing it in 1938 but couldn’t complete it till 1941. The play was first performed in 1943 in Switzerland and was accompanied by a musical score and...
Bezwada Wilson
Stop killing us in sewers and septic tanks: Bezwada Wilson
24 Sep 2018
Rs. 530 crores were spent on Swaccha Bharat Abhiyan advertisements in the last three years but as per National Commission for Safai Karamcharis (NCSK) data, the Rs. 10 lakh compensation that is mandated under law in case of manual scavenging deaths...
BHU
ABVP members assault BHU students hosting gender equality event
24 Sep 2018
The students argue that the police and the university authorities looked on as this was happening in front of them. The students were also beaten with sticks while journalists are also said to have been attacked.   Varanasi: Members of...
Indian parliament
Faultlines in India's parliamentary democracy
24 Sep 2018
The executive is hardly accountable to the legislature, legislators lack tangible power, so notions of the consent of the governed and the will of the people are a farce.   Barack Obama addressed the Members of Parliament at a Joint...