For An Informed Ambedkar Age
Dr. B. Karthik Navayan In Telangana, the term “civil society” evokes images of principled activism: women’s groups marching for justice, human rights organisations amplifying marginalised voices, and political parties channelling public anger into demands for accountability. Yet this activism reveals a troubling selectivity when the victim belongs to a Scheduled Caste (SC) community, especially a …
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 …
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 …
Ravindra Kumar Goliya Artificial Intelligence is rapidly becoming one of the most transformative technologies in human history. In a remarkably short period, AI has moved from a specialised computational technology to a general-purpose tool capable of writing, designing, analysing, reasoning, generating images and video, assisting scientific research, and increasingly performing tasks once considered uniquely human. …
Kunal Nakshane For the Madia Adivasi community in the Bhamragad region, the Bablai Mata Yatra (pilgrimage/fair) is not just a religious pilgrimage but a living symbol of cultural, environmental, and constitutional rights. However, in recent times, the politics of development, religious conversion, the administration, and Naxalism have begun to significantly impact the Bablai Yatra. For …
Akhilesh Kumar Two days after Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge addressed a public rally at Haldwani’s Ramlila Maidan in Uttarakhand on August 8, a shuddhikaran havan was conducted at the same venue. Members of the Shri Ram Sena Dharmarth Seva Nyas Sangathan performed the ritual to purify the site. The organisation cited the slogans raised at the rally …
Dr. Nishant Kumar The resignation of Dharmendra Pradhan, Minister of Education, Government of India (a Gen-X person born between 1965–1980), has come as a shock, as it was considered impossible to get a resignation from any minister of the Narendra Modi-led NDA government from 2014 till now. However, the students of Gen-Z (born between 1997–2012, …