Saturday, January 23, 2016

Why the attempt to deny Dalit status to Rohith Vemula is a shocking ignorance of the law

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Opinion Or a deliberate misrepresentation. Apart from being extremely undignified, it is indicative of the high stakes involved. Anup S...
Friday, January 22, 2016

Rohith Vemula's suicide: A missing conversation

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Ankur Bhardwaj | New Delhi Jan 22, 2016 12:40 PM IST Social fronts and students organisation members take part in a candle march prote...
Wednesday, January 20, 2016

Is this dead tiger our new Confederate flag?

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By Sandy Garossino in Opinion | January 19th 2016   Lord Curzon, Viceroy of India, with his wife in Bengal, 1903 The Bengal Lounge ...
Tuesday, January 19, 2016

The (Still) Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe

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Was the famous author killed from a beating? From carbon monoxide poisoning? From alcohol withdrawal? Here are the top nine theories ...

This tragic documentary series tells the stories of Dalit students who were driven to suicide

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CASTE DISCRIMINATION University of Hyderabad scholar Rohit Vemula's death has once against brought up the issue of casteism in instit...
Monday, January 18, 2016

'I loved Science, Stars, Nature': Suicide by suspended Dalit student sparks nationwide protests

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Dalit issues 'I feel a growing gap between my soul and my body,' wrote scholar at University of Hyderabad before he hanged himsel...
Thursday, January 14, 2016

David Bowie has been secretly cremated without a funeral or any family and friends present

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The iconic singer told his loved ones he wanted to “go without any fuss” and not have a funeral service or public memorial   AKM-GSI-XP...
Monday, January 11, 2016

Was the Ramayana actually set in and around today’s Afghanistan?

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LITERATURE AND MYTH An examination of a book by physicist Rajesh Kochhar debunks the notion that the events of the epic took place in mod...
Sunday, January 10, 2016

A short note on the short history of Hinduism

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Opinion While it may be that the religious streams now grouped together under the rubric of Hinduism are ancient, the word 'Hindu...
Saturday, January 09, 2016

Faith over rationalism: The Indian elite are making the same mistake as their Pakistani counterparts

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SAFFRON STROKES Starting from politics in the 1980s, faith has now even entered India’s premier colleges. Shoaib Daniyal   · Today ...