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[Column] Why Shame Weighs Me Down This Independence Day

Edited version of this column was first published on National Herald.

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Do Not Vote For BJP Ever Again In Any Election: That’s The Call To Action. Do...

“Do not vote for BJP, ever again, in any election,” is a call to action I recently gave on my Twitter. Once on July 30 and then September 2. Both times they went to massively viral reaching 6 to 7...

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Radical Right Propaganda Website Op India Creates A False Story Blaming...

We are living in post-truth age. Truth is called false, and falsehood is called truth in this age, black is called white and white is black. Op India, a radical right propaganda website with possible...

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An Open Letter To Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel On His Brand New Statue

An edited version of this letter was first published on Daily O. Dear Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Congratulations, you’ve got your own statue now. It is the tallest in the world. I am not sure if you...

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Book Review: Gender And Nation (1997) By Nira Yuval -Davis

Gender and Nation (1997) by Nira Yuval-Davis Review by Sanjukta Basu, PhD Scholar Gender and Nation (1997) is a comprehensive easy to read book which opened up the field of studying women’s relation...

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Patrick J Adams Appreciation Post: The Other Guy From The Show About Lawyers

Patrick Adams is a Canadian actor somewhat famous for just one big TV show, which aired on USA Network for nine seasons from 2011 to 2019. The name of the show and his name are likely to be forgotten...

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Science Is Random, Thomas Kuhn in Structure of Scientific Revolution, Book...

Book Review: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) by Thomas Kuhn Overview The Structure of Scientific revolutions is a path breaking book by Thomas Kuhn first published in 1962. Kuhn was one...

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Suddenness, The Sheer Suddenness – How could this anarth take place under...

Why all the theories that made Indians invincible fail? How did the tiny virus which was squirming in front of Modi’s feet till March’21, suddenly turn into this monster out on a killing spree? How...

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Historian Hilal Ahmed Partially Justifies Proposed Demolition of National...

In an opinion column on The Print, Historian Hilal Ahmed said that we don't need the idea of India proposed by Nehru Ambedkar etc. but need their positivity. What do you think?

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Sedition Case Against Vinod Dua Quashed by Supreme Court – Now He Should Sue...

Supreme Court has quashed the FIR filed against journalist Vinod Dua on charges of sedition for his reporting on COVID and other issues where he criticized the Modi government heavily. “Every...

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National Conference on Women Studies – Paper presentation, Indian Women’s...

Last year in January, I presented a paper at the Indian Association of Women’s Studies National Conference in which I shared the preliminary observations and findings of my PhD research study. The...

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Loki The God of Mischief Coming On Disney Plus – A Comparison Between Loki of...

Loki TV series is coming on June 9 on Disney Plus. Here is an appreciation post for both the Loki of the Norse Mythology and the Loki of Marvel Cinematic Universe. I do a poor job of a feminist when I...

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Anonymity For Rape Victims, In Camera Trial Do Not Help The Victim, says...

In the month of August 2021, Rahul Gandhi and other Congress leaders Twitter accounts remained suspended for a week, and was restored only after Rahul Gandhi broke his silence and released a powerful...

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Who Will Benefit If Parliament’s Strength Increases from 543 to 1000 MPs?...

Parts of this story was first published on Sunday Navjivan in Print. Congress leader Manish Tewari recently claimed there was a “proposal” by the BJP-led central government to increase the strength of...

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India’s Ranking on 18 Most Important Global Index – 2020

A compilation of 18 Global Indexes including Human Development Index, Gender Gap report, Happiness Index, Global Hunger Index, Defence Expenditure Index, Peace Index and more and India’s 2020 ranking...

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Do People Support BJP and Modi Because Of Hidden Anti-Muslim Hate?

The other day I had a casual chit chat with a carpenter guy on how the fuel price rise is affecting their pocket. He shrugged, smiled and gave the expressions of being resigned to his fate but not in a...

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Semiotics – Feminist Interpretation Of Print Ad By ‘Trussardi My Name’...

Assignment: Find any image based perfume/cologne advertisement in any magazine or newspaper. Provide a photocopy of the advertisement along with the source as part of your assignment response. With the...

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Sameer Wankhede Removed From Aryan Khan Case, Facing Embarrassment NCB Tries...

Post-truth or the phenomenon of political agents using blatant lies, half-truth, selective information to mislead voters is the norm nowadays. One cannot remember when was the last time a naked brutal...

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Not Just Aijaz Ahamad, Liberalism Is Targeted By Both Left And Right, But...

Parties and activists on both sides of political spectrum, extreme Left and Right dismiss liberalism but there is no other way of building a modern democracy. I was reading this interview (Frontline,...

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Rahul Gandhi’s Statement On Hindutva A Much Needed Sign Of Congress’s Second...

In his 2019 Frontline interview, about which I wrote in my previous blog, Marxist thinker Aijaz Ahmad also said that Congress party has lots its secular credentials and its downfall is inevitable. “Any...

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