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Land, caste, class and gender – Gail Omvedt’s writings were united in their vision of utopia
A tribute to the scholar who died on August 25.
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Bengalure’s middle class is keeping the poor out of the garden city’s parks and public spaces
Academics and activists call this the privatisation of public spaces.
2026-07-03 -
Rush Hour: NCERT adds 1975 Emergency to Class 9 text, Kolkata warehouse collapse toll at 9 and more
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Elections 2019: Why most backward castes are crucial for BJP’s sandwich alliance in Uttar Pradesh
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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Elections 2019: Why most backward castes are crucial for BJP’s sandwich alliance in Uttar Pradesh
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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How the H-1B visa changed American food culture forever
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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JNU: Nobel winner Abhijit Banerjee, academic Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd, IMA condemn mob violence
“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.
2026-07-03 -
The strike that united Indian and Pakistani workers in Kuwait
What began as a simple request for leave soon turned into a protest against discrimination and harsh conditions.
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At Cockroach Janta Party protest in Delhi, protestors rage against the system
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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‘Do Bigha Zamin’ and the never-ending race against poverty
Balraj Sahni’s Shambhu still walks among us – as the daily-wage earner, the construction site labourer and the gig worker.
2026-07-03