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Work and Free Time: Seeing Leisure Through Women’s Everyday Lives

Shruti Patil Leisure, as the Cambridge Dictionary defines it, is a time when you are not working or doing other duties. It is often imagined as time set apart for rest, pleasure, free from responsibilities or obligations. This understanding assumes a clear boundary between work and non-work, where once responsibilities end, leisure begins. However, this …

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Why the Demand for Scheduled Tribe Status Sparked Manipur’s Disastrous Ethnic Conflicts

Haokholal Kipgen The ethnic conflict that erupted in the northeastern Indian state of Manipur in May 2023 became one of the most devastating episodes of ethnic violence in contemporary India. Initially triggered by the demand for Scheduled Tribe (ST) status for the dominant Meitei community, the crisis soon escalated into a prolonged conflict between the …

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Cockroach Janta Party: A More Cautious Reading

Dr Neeraj Bunkar, Mahesh Admankar The Movement’s Origins — and What We Didn’t Know The Cockroach Janta Party emerged as a satirical response to a controversial remark attributed to Chief Justice of India Surya Kant Sharma, who, during a court hearing on May 15, 2026, compared unemployed youth involved in social media, journalism, or RTI …