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A tribute to the scholar who died on August 25.

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Academics and activists call this the privatisation of public spaces.

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There was, after all, evidence that the most backward class was being deprived of their due.The subdivision spawned a narrative that ascribed the separateness of the most backward class … First, we worked out the social composition of Uttar Pradesh’s population by taking the share of Muslims and Scheduled Castes from the 2001 census.

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If these 70 castes do not consolidate behind the BJP as they did in 2014, the ruling party is unlikely to deliver anywhere near the same performance.

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working.The cuisine of one country usually gets introduced to another country through working-class migrants, refugees, royalty or hipsters. … When her first place was featured in the Houston Chronicle, she showed it to her father (her mother

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“They can build their own ruling class thought with serious study and writing,” added the academic. “ABVP was/is not known to the academic rigour even in their own ideology. … Our team of doctors, nurses & medical volunteers who reached JNU to give first aid to injured students & teachers, was attacked by hundreds of goons.

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What began as a simple request for leave soon turned into a protest against discrimination and harsh conditions.

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My Class XII results were not good either, even though I had thought that I did well in the examinations.”Zeenat moved to Delhi to prepare for the NEET. … It is a rare aesthetic.”For many, the Cockroach Janta Party protest was the first such protest they had attended.

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Balraj Sahni’s Shambhu still walks among us – as the daily-wage earner, the construction site labourer and the gig worker.