For An Informed Ambedkar Age
Rajat Kanti Satpati Who gets to decide what we should read? The question arose sharply in Ahmedabad this August, when two books were removed from a school reading list, and a silent reading session was later disrupted. In August, an Ahmedabad school removed Malala Yousafzai’s I Am Malala and Anne Frank’s The Diary of a …
Dr Ratnesh Katulkar A river remains alive only so long as fresh water continues to flow through it. The same principle applies to language. Language is never static; it evolves with time. Its vocabulary, sentence structure, and modes of expression continually change. Whether one considers Hindi, English, or any other language, it becomes evident that …
Sundeep Pattem From a social perspective, the IITs are tragic failures that beget more tragedies. But you already know the IITs are the pinnacle of Indian aspirations, achievements, accolades, blah-di-blah, right? How about we celebrate by taking a closer look at the graduates, the faculty, and the institution? The institutional charter, briefly. The IITs were …
Komal Rajak Both academic and non-academic spheres are recurrently using terms like “Gen-Z protest,” “Gen Z’s political anger,” “Gen Z pressure,” “Gen-Z consciousness,” and “Gen Z politics” to describe the follow-up events. US public broadcaster NPR, despite accentuating the statistics of joblessness and inequality across South Asia as latent sources of unrest, concludes its argument …
Subhasree Nayak “Who will answer?” And “We cheered because the courts made us wait!” Every rape case begins with a person: a daughter, a sister, a mother who trusted the road home. The numbers can feel cold, but they are made of lives, and any honest conversation has to carry both the data and the …
Jitendra Suna The protests that have sparked in most South Asian countries in the last few years have sparked hope for socio-political, economic, and cultural change. Bangladesh’s protest over the job crisis in 2024, Nepal’s Gen Z protest (2025), and Sri Lanka’s protest of 2022 shocked the nations and their corrupt political systems. The Gen …
Kumar Saikrishna Nayak Elections used to be loud. Street-corner rallies, hoarse loudspeakers, campaigners going door to door, entire neighbourhoods gathered around a television for the evening debate. That version of democracy is dying, and most of us haven’t quite noticed the funeral. The real contest now happens somewhere quieter — inside a smartphone screen, in …
Saraswati Suna Literature both reflects and shapes social life. This article examines how literature, people’s perspectives, and social life are deeply entangled. It asks how literary works and social relations are interpreted through selective lenses that foreground some forms of inequality while obscuring others. What readers notice in a literary work is not always separate …
Kshirod B Nag A society becomes dynamic not when everyone thinks alike, but when people possess the freedom and courage to question, debate and rethink what they have inherited. Every generation receives beliefs, customs, institutions and social practices from the past. Some enrich human life; others may perpetuate inequality simply because they have acquired the …