Educated jobless youth at a ‘Berozgari Mela’ in Delhi organised on PM Modi’s birthday to highlight the problem of rising unemployment in the country (Photo: Getty Images)

Opinion

76 Years of Independence: What’s there to celebrate?

(Left) The first portrait of Bharat Mata painted by Abanindranath Tagore; (right) a later adaptation of Bharat Mata

Opinion

Whose Bharat Mata is it anyway?

It has been 3 years that PhD student Umar Khalid has been in jail, without being convicted of any offence or even a trial. He has just turned 36

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"Your persecution is an emblem of what is being called New India": A letter to Umar Khalid

Bajrang Dal and VHP activists stage a threatening demonstration in Ghaziabad after communal violence in Haryana’s Nuh, 2 August 2023 (Photo: Getty Images)

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The hard ride back to ‘India’

Representational Image (Photo: Getty Images)

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‘No one bats an eye’ 

Jadavpur University (Photo: NH Library)

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A hostel death: The dark side of ragging to the fore again?

A malnourished child (Image for representative purpose only) (Photo: IANS)

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Release honest data and thou shalt pay the price

Ernakulam Speaker of the Kerala Assembly A.N. Shamseer; Nair Service Society (NSS) protests in Thiruvananthapuram during the Sabrimala agitation of 2018. (photo courtesy: @Anshaseer/Facebook; IANS)

Opinion

BJP and NSS keep the ‘Ganesha’ Pot Boiling in Kerala

Damaged vehicles following the violent communal clashes at Ambedkar Chowk in Sohna, Nuh district, Haryana on Monday, August 1. (photo: Getty Images)

Opinion

An anatomy of riots and the State’s will through different times

Violent communal clashes erupted in Nuh, Haryana, during a VHP rally on  July 31. (photo: IANS)

Opinion

Herald View: A flailing democracy, a failing State

I.N.D.I.A alliance (photo: DW)

Opinion

Modi's meltdown over I.N.D.I.A.

PM Modi addressing the Akhil Bhartiya Shiksha Samagam at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi, 29 July 2023. (Photo: PIB)

Opinion

Whose holiday is it, anyway?

Jawaharlal Nehru in Manipur during a tour of the North-East amid tribal unrest, April 1953 (Photo: Getty Images)

Opinion

Nehru's Word: The civilisation of tribals will outlive the city civilisation