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Hating Dating
For many women, dating in their 30s and 40s is defined less by romance than by exhaustion, confusion and a sense of emotional attrition
2 min |
February 21, 2026
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Rage of Betrayals
THIS is a popular poem often shared when anyone talks of the 4B movement in South Korea. The women in this movement boycott the world of men; boycott heterosexual marriage, relationships, sex, and giving birth.
2 min |
February 21, 2026
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Class and Caste
Caste hierarchies continue to exist in everyday life and across campuses. Due to the persistence of caste in schools and colleges, long believed to be places for upward mobility and rational thought, these institutions end up becoming spaces where questions of \"merit\", cultural capital, language and access-or the lack of thereof-are highlighted and ridiculed. The discrimination persists from Kashmir to Kerala. From delayed degrees and stalled promotions to verbal abuse, professional isolation, and sometimes death, these case studies underscore not isolated instances but a pattern
10+ min |
February 21, 2026
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The Misuse Myth
A close look at reported cases over the past ten years shows that there is no pattern of rampant misuse of the SC/ST Act in universities or higher education institutions
6 min |
February 21, 2026
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The Higher, The Lower
What is clear is that the entrenched caste hierarchy feels that power is slipping out from their grasp
6 min |
February 21, 2026
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Writing is Acting by Another Name
My wife spots him first while my attention is focused on the bucket of theatre popcorn (medium, salt and caramel mix). I look up and there he is. Pico Iyer, great travel writer, essayist, novelist, columnist, humanist, and in recent years, friend and correspondent. While the rest gasp when Timothee Chalamet appears in Marty Supreme, we gasp when Pico does.
3 min |
February 21, 2026
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Sins of Savarnatva
The upper castes believe that the UGC regulations are a death knell to their own existence
6 min |
February 21, 2026
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Invisible Labour, Visible Costs
Women shoulder disproportionate emotional and domestic work, shaping how they view intimacy and relationships
2 min |
February 21, 2026
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Between textbooks and court orders
From first choice to uncertainty as HIMSR-Jamia Hamdard dispute leaves students stranded
5 min |
February 21, 2026
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Aggressive Victimhood Versus Predictable Protests
The current controversy around the UGC regulations is meant neither to promote social justice and equity nor hurt the interests of the dominant castes. It's meant for the two to be at loggerheads and further consolidate their support behind the BJP-RSS combine
5 min |
February 21, 2026
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Cracks in the Caste Coalition
The controversy over the UGC's regulations has turned a debate over campus equity into a proxy for deeper anxieties about succession and power within the Bharatiya Janata Party
6 min |
February 21, 2026
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Equity on Trial
The uproar over the University Grants Commission (Promotion of Equity in Higher Education Institutions) Regulations, 2026, is a revealing moment in India's uneasy engagement with caste.
7 min |
February 21, 2026
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Hyderabad Blues
Without sustained political will Rohith Vemula's legacy may remain symbolic rather than catalysing structural change in higher education
7 min |
February 21, 2026
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Everybody is a Guerrilla
Those who have won will win every war
8 min |
February 21, 2026
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Rapids in the Teesta
Gen Z is playing contrasting roles in elections following the uprisings in Bangladesh and Nepal
6 min |
February 21, 2026
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Watch the Ball
I remember playing cricket as a seven-year-old in the cricket grounds across the road from our apartment building in north London.
4 min |
February 11, 2026
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History of Sound
From villages to the national squad, India's blind women cricketers battled disability, patriarchy and caste to win the inaugural World Cup. Beyond sport, their journeys reveal their fight for dignity
6 min |
February 11, 2026
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One Battle After Another
Women's cricket in Jharkhand is not built on infrastructure, funding or institutional care. It has survived on endurance and sacrifice
5 min |
February 11, 2026
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“Fix the Pipeline, Not the Pay Cheque”
When Doorva Bahuguna played cricket in the late 1980s and ’90s, there was no money, little recognition, and no illusion that the sport could become a career. You played, she says, because something inside you demanded it. Today, women’s cricket in India has a league, salaries, sponsors, and visibility—but also new constraints, new narratives, and familiar battles over agency, safety and femininity. In conversation with Lalita Iyer, Bahuguna—who captained Andhra Pradesh’s sub-junior, junior and senior cricket teams and later built a corporate career—speaks candidly about why grassroots matter more than pay parity, how sport reshapes women's sense of self; and why the real revolution in women’s cricket is still unfinished.
5 min |
February 11, 2026
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Where Roses Bloom
If the oligarchs return to Venezuela, the social housing will go, the public schools will go, the healthcare clinics will go, the food parcels will go, and the forests will be cut down
6 min |
February 11, 2026
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Baramati's Dada
Ajit Pawar's sudden death leaves a power vacuum, but for people, especially from rural pockets in and around Baramati, who considered him a grassroots strongman, the loss is more profound
5 min |
February 11, 2026
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The Foreigner India Came to Trust
The Indian media fraternity appears unable to live up to Mark Tully's standards of balance, honesty, trustworthiness and credibility
3 min |
February 11, 2026
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'Mother of all Trade Deals'
The EU-India trade agreement is an economic bonanza as it will merge two of the world's largest economic blocs into a single trade zone
3 min |
February 11, 2026
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Fiery Kolhapuri
Pratiksha Pawar's cricketing journey is a reminder that dreams know no boundaries
6 min |
February 11, 2026
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Spice Girls
In the once nondescript villages of Wayanad, cricket is no longer just a sport. It has become a way to dream and to rise above the limits of geography, poverty and custom
6 min |
February 11, 2026
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I Was at the Elsewhere Party
Excerpt from an unpublished manuscript, The Speculative City: A History of the Future
6 min |
February 11, 2026
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Barmer Bradman
Almost three years after she first shot to viral fame, Mumal Meher has fallen out of the spotlight. The talented cricketer keeps practising, hoping to find sustained backing for her sporting journey
5 min |
February 11, 2026
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Tearaway Teens
Torn shoes with exposed soles, borrowed kits and almost no financial backing ... in many suburbs of West Bengal, cricket pitches silently bear witness to stories written by girls from humble backgrounds
7 min |
February 11, 2026
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Power Shift
THE untimely death of Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar has the potential to tweak a political order in the state that had learned to accommodate his presence; on either side of the ideological fence.
3 min |
February 11, 2026
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Mona Supreme
Mona Meshram rose from anonymity to attention, excelling at cricket and also balancing employment with an elite sport
5 min |