Tribals or adivasis, as they are popularly known as a symbol of self-assertion, comprise of around 8.2 per cent of the national population. The tribals are concentrated mostly in the central belt of ...

After the Congress no-show in the November 2025 Bihar assembly election, Rahul Gandhi has become the punching pad for his friends and foes alike. Everyone, irrespective of their political standing, is ...

Paresh Chattopadhyay/Pareshda [1] was born in Rudrakar of undivided Bengal. That place is now located within the Shariatpur district of Bangladesh. He died in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. During the last ...

Women’s education in nineteenth-century India was no easy task. In the case of Muslim women, the task was even more difficult due to their triply marginal identity: as colonial subjects, as women, and ...

The special fast-track court judge, P.R. Patel, has pronounced his verdict on the mystery behind the fire incident in the Sabarmati Express at Godhra on February 27, 2002. The conspiracy theory put ...

The celebration of 100 years of Bollywood needs to be reviewed from a subaltern perspective. The general assumption that cinema is a normal mode to produce anecdotes to satisfy the entertainment ...

The New India, like the old one, is a land of miracles. Western visitors admired Indians for walking on water and the rope-trick. Now, they love its Nonbiological Being (NB) who claims in human voice ...

Like his father Lalu Yadav, his younger son, the leader of opposition Tejashwi Yadav took to aggressive posture and announced headline-grabbing promises for the voters even before Bihar INDIA bloc ...

Syed Shahbuddin’s demise on March 4, 2017 came as a great personal loss to me. My association with Shahab, as I affectionately called him, dates back to our year of matriculation from the Patna ...

Inequality in India is not accidental — it is the result of deliberate policy choices The bug in Dipankar Bhattacharya India’s labour future held hostage by ancient inequality How Law is Weaponized to ...

In an era increasingly defined by data, the boundaries between surveillance for security and infringement of civil liberties have grown dangerously thin. Nowhere is this more evident than in India’s ...

The functioning of democracy depends upon the harmonious coordination of all the three organs of the state namely Legislature, Executive and Judiciary. The observations made by the PM-EAC member on ...