൩In India, love is not only commercialised but also deeply politicised. Caste, class, and religion dictate the boundaries of romantic relationships, often making love a site of struggle rather than celebration.
Kunal Shahdeo
Editor
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Birsa Munda's resistance held great importance and inspired subsequent generations of Adivasi leaders to fight for the separate statehood of Jharkhand. However, he remained a relatively obscure figure in the national consciousness until the early decades of independence.
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💟With just days left for the first phase of polling in Jharkhand’s hotly contested Assembly elections, religious and ethnic tensions, while not universal, are increasingly prevalent.
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Ram navami has frequently been associated with communal tensions in the region, and incidents of religious clashes have fuelled religious polarisation, often benefiting the BJP's political agenda
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ဣThe TV news presentation of Biparjoy is just an instance of the larger pathology ailing the news media in India. Most of the news presentations are generally characterised by a potent concoction of sensationalism and gimmickry.
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ꦑMany of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s supporters embrace the notion that he is engaged in a superior mission that transcends the realm of democratic politics. Fittingly, he was the chief protagonist of the spectacle that marked the house-warming of the Parliament, a new parliament for a ‘New India’ whose founding father is Modi himself.
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😼In a country with a deep-rooted hierarchy that is founded on ascribed identities, education has been seen as one of the few means of acquiring social mobility by marginalized groups. However, there is a flip side to this story where in the changing socio-economic and political terrain of post-colonial India, the dominant groups have constantly tried to establish and reproduce their ascendancy by primarily controlling the gates of the educational institutions of excellence.
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ꦍRecently there has been a series of violent incidents in villages in the Narayanpur and Kondagoan districts related to issues of forced conversion and reconversion creating an environment of tension and mistrust.
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⛦The assertion of an Adivasi identity has stonewalled the Sangh Parivar’s project in Jharkhand to incorporate Adivasis into the larger Hindu fold
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