Specials

MAYANK JAIN PARICHHA -September 25, 2020

Life for people living in 48,000 slum dwellings hangs by a thread as the Supreme Court orders their removal within three months Pushpa, 35 recalls her childhood when she was living with her father in a makeshift house on land allotted by railways alongside the railway tracks just behind Madrasi colony. Her father, a railway […]

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Manjula Lal -September 25, 2020

Love, marriage, intimacy, rape and harassment – there is a law to deal with all these personal matters. This book attempts to put it all the Supreme Court rulings in easily understandable language This anthology edited by Saurabh Kirpal has 10 essays by lawyers, activists and judges, besides two by the editor. The blurb tells […]

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Sashikala VP -September 19, 2020

After handling ration distribution and working in quarantine facilities, teachers of Delhi government now have to issue challans to the public for breaking social distancing norms and lack of masks Government school teachers’ role in the fight against the Coronavirus pandemic is not over yet. From distributing hot meals and rations, to turning their schools […]

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Nabeel Ahmed -September 19, 2020

After the Supreme Court stayed the airing of the controversial series titled ‘UPSC Jihad’ by Sudarshan TV, Patriot spoke to one of the petitioners seeking the stay in the Delhi High Court. Excerpts from the interview: The show Bindas Bol’s series titled ‘UPSC Jihad’ hosted by Suresh Chavhanke whose promotional videos created a stir with […]

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The system of competitive exams, a long drawn out process in the northern states, is taking a toll on young aspirants who are under pressure to get a government job, come what may. Covid has delayed the process and the only hope on the horizon is a Common Eligibility Test for non-gazetted posts Recently, many […]

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Akanksha Kumar -September 14, 2020

Linking the protests to Delhi riots, police are going after four labour rights activists who were summoned between April and August, and were asked who had ‘funded’ the citizenship law protest in Khajuri Khas area In the last five months, the Delhi police’s special cell has summoned at least four labour activists to question them […]

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Anand Vardhan -September 14, 2020

Michiel Baas’s book that looks at the social settings and aspirational trajectories of India’s new middle class is an important contribution to the understanding of urban centers in the country “Little things” was how VS Naipaul began his response to a journalist’s question on how he could foresee in the late Eighties that India was […]

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Anoushka Sharma -September 14, 2020

Students protest as Ambedkar University seeks to end blanket fee waiver for marginalised communities Ambedkar University, Delhi, is set to discontinue its blanket fee waiver for Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe and disabled students from the 2020-21 academic year. Instead, the exemption will be decided on the basis of family income. The proposed policy is expected […]

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