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Backward March
The Maratha reservation question may continue to mire the next government in the state
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September 21, 2024
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The 69% Exception
Quota within quota: lessons to be learned from Tamil Nadu
5 min |
September 21, 2024
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United Indifference
The perils of tweaking tribal identities
7 min |
September 21, 2024
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Two Nations, Two Destinies
The widely differing balance of power between the military and civilian leadership in India and Pakistan has significantly impacted democracy in the two countries
4 min |
September 21, 2024
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Crème de la Crème
The mainstream society thinks reservations are against right to equality. It’s high time they are seen in the context of right to justice.
5 min |
September 21, 2024
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Fading Folks
The recent SC ruling on sub-classification within the SC and ST categories temporarily lifted the hopes of tribal communities in Jharkhand
5 min |
September 21, 2024
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A 'Hypocritical' Demand?
Hindu nationalists demand the denial of reservations to Christian and Muslim tribals even as they pursue their own \"reconversion\" drive
5 min |
September 21, 2024
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Slicing the Pie
Distinct from quick technical solutions offered by the judiciary the Dalit-Bahujan movements have suggested new momentum and reforms in the agenda of social justice
5 min |
September 21, 2024
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Shifting Sands of Time
The sub-categorisation debate has taken an interesting turn after the Bharat Bandh, with different political parties and factions adopting varied stances
5 min |
September 21, 2024
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Syndromic Promotions
The recent SC judgement on sub-categorisation is against the constitutional mandate
5 min |
September 21, 2024
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"Where Is The Creamy Layer?"
In 2020-21, after the death of Dalit leader Ram Vilas Paswan, followed by the split in the Lok Janshakti Party (LJP), people started writing political obituaries of his son Chirag Paswan. But within three years, the wheels took a different turn. He is now not only a Union Minister—his party won five MPs—but he has also already left his mark in Indian politics through his outspoken nature and political convictions. During a conversation with Outlook’s Editor Chinki Sinha and Assistant Editor Abhik Bhattacharya, he shares his views on different issues. Excerpts:
6 min |
September 21, 2024
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Caste Census: ✓
Carry out the caste survey objectively, carefully and sensitively, with the right spirit, so that the benefits of reservation reach the deserving beneficiaries
5 min |
September 21, 2024
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Criminal Amnesia
The focus may have now shifted to the Kolkata gang rape case, but questions about the sexual violence in Manipur since May 2023 remain unanswered
10 min |
September 11, 2024
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To Rape A Wife
Survivors of marital rape face twin hurdles: a lack of legal framework to deal with these cases and the social stigma that comes with reporting them
7 min |
September 11, 2024
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A City Violated
Public outburst of anger over the rape and murder of a junior doctor in Kolkata has left the Mamata Banerjee government puzzled, worried
6 min |
September 11, 2024
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The Forest of Loss
From a legal perspective, justice appears to have been served in the 2017 Gudiya rape and murder case at Kotkhai, Himachal Pradesh. But several questions persist
7 min |
September 11, 2024
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Here, Nobody Speaks of the Wounds
Muhammad Iqbal Shah's 14-year-old cousin was gang-raped and murdered at Handwara town, Kupwara, in 2007. The family is still trudging along the long road to justice
5 min |
September 11, 2024
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She Must Have Been Afraid
The 2012 Delhi gang rape is reflective of a systematic failure to cleanse the societal malaise
5 min |
September 11, 2024
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The Burning Woman
UP has the highest rate of crimes against women, and the district of Unnao has seen some of the State's most gruesome cases
5 min |
September 11, 2024
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Naked (vs.) Justice
On March 14, 2006, Latabai and her son, six, were paraded naked in a village in Solapur. Less than six months later, four members of a Dalit family were paraded naked; mother & daughter were allegedly gang-raped
6 min |
September 11, 2024
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Songlines of Chambal
How do the residents of Sheikhpur Gudha, Phoolan Devi's village in Uttar Pradesh, remember her: as a survivor, a rebel, a leader?
10 min |
September 11, 2024
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Don't You Remember My Story?
A child gang rape survivor's 12-year long ordeal in Sikar, Rajasthan shows how calls for punishment of perpetrators don't always mean empathy for the victim
8 min |
September 11, 2024
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Still Jungle Raj
The demand for justice for victims and survivors of violence in Bihar continues
10 min |
September 11, 2024
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Kunan Poshpora: Frozen in Time
In 1991, 40 Kashmiri women alleged that Army officers raped them. The case remains pending
3 min |
September 11, 2024
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The Lost Innocence
In May, a minor girl was raped in a village in Latehar district of Jharkhand. Incidentally, the state is currently placed third in the country for rapes of minor girls
5 min |
September 11, 2024
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The Dog Chain & Hospital Bed
On November 27, 1973, Aruna Shanbaug, a staff nurse at the KEM Hospital in Mumbai, was brutally attacked by a male sweeper, Sohanlal Valmiki. He raped and sodomised her, while strangling her with a dog chain
5 min |
September 11, 2024
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Speak Up, Shut Down
How the system defeats a gang rape survivor
8 min |
September 11, 2024
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They Didn't Cut the Tree
Despite global outrage at the gang rape and murder of two minors in Budaun, UP in May 2014, nine years later the case has not reached trial stage. The family continue to live in fear in the same village, awaiting justice
6 min |
September 11, 2024
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Unspeakable Memories
At least five tribal girls in Sidhi district in MP were raped by a 30-year-old man, who used a voice-changing app to pose as a woman college professor offering them scholarships
10+ min |
September 11, 2024
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Rage Against the Machinery
The brutal rape-murder of a junior doctor at Kolkata’s R G Kar Medical College and Hospital has an inescapable geography
5 min |