
Caste, Rights and India’s Reckoning By UN Report on Racial Discrimination
The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination’s (CERD) 2026 review of India puts caste discrimination at the centre of international scrutiny, reopening a

The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination’s (CERD) 2026 review of India puts caste discrimination at the centre of international scrutiny, reopening a

When a young Muslim woman wears a traditional Kerala Kasavu saree, steps onto an Onam oonjal (swing), or joins in public dance during regional festivities,

Walk into any college or cafe in the Eastern Himalaya, and you are likely to stumble upon a curious mix of ambition and apprehension. Young

What does it take to understand the making of a political leader who rises from the grassroots to the highest echelons of power? In this

Three years after the violence, the government can account for relief camps, security gains and expenditure. But can it account for every conflict-affected child? Three

As Parliament prepares to convene and climate activist Sonam Wangchuk continues his fast demanding accountability from the Union government, one question hangs over India’s political

The renewed debate over the place of the Manusmriti in legal education has become a larger contest over the moral foundations of the Indian republic.

In a world increasingly defined by authoritarianism, ethnic nationalism, religious extremism and deepening social inequalities, the search for new democratic possibilities has become an urgent

What we are witnessing in urban India is a broken ladder. Policy assumes that once a household moves up to LPG, they stay there. However,

As police probe serious claims of harassment, a parallel story of conspiracy and conversion dominates public discourse In late March 2026, a complaint filed at
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