Patriot Bureau
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’Good research is vital’
Alpa Shah’s ‘Nightmarch’ is an insightful exploration of conflict and its origins, and how the understanding of both eludes politics and policies for tribals in India Literature in narrative non-fiction is undergoing an academic shift, lending to works in the genre richness of ethnographic research and multi-layered narratives. From Pulitzer-winning author and academic Matthew Desmond […]
Brownfacing in Bollywood
Bhumi Pednekar’s skin colour in Bala is an outrage. Why is nobody protesting? The newly released film Bala, starring Ayushmann Khurrana and Bhumi Pednekar, is problematic. It not only takes the insulting practice of brownfacing in Bollywood to a new level of blackfacing but does so under the guise of denoucing false conceptions of beauty […]
A happiness mantra
Fall in love with yourself, says this self-help book from Dr Radhika Kapoor, a dentist who is also a stylist and yoga practitioner “Make the best relationship with yourself: the tip of the triangle is self-care and love, then taper to our life as parents, siblings, friends, kids and co-workers,” dentist Radhika Kapoor says in […]
It’s a nationalist stir
A fresher at JNU explains what she expected from one of India’s premier institutions, and why students are unanimously resisting the big hike in fees and other arbitrary actions of the administration En route to the library, I look at the signboard at the Admin Block which reads “Any demonstration within 100 metres of this […]
Being queer on campus
A year after the Supreme Court decriminalised homosexuality, LTBTQ+ students say their colleges and universities are still far from being accepting of them The university is envisioned to encourage free thinking and open exchange of ideas. But in India, the LGBTQ+ community feels that they don’t enjoy these rights on campuses. The Supreme Court last […]
What’s with making Sanskrit compulsory?
Primacy of the vernacular has offered Indian society an unprecedented level of access to the larger public sphere, transforming the very way we communicate and access information On Sunday, American pop star Lady Gaga tweeted part of a Sanskrit shloka, sending Indian Twitter into a tizzy. Amidst the flurry of responses that followed was a […]
JNU amid dispute
New hostel rules also mandate a dress code for mealtimes and 11 pm curfew, and bar male and female students from visiting each other’s hostels Controversies are swirling around Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University once again. It is witnessing two simultaneous protests by the students — against “draconian” new hostel rules and against the delay in […]
Terminator tower
The proposed construction of a high-rise building has led to outrage in Delhi University as it poses a security threat to girl students The construction of a private high-rise building right next to the North Campus of Delhi University has been a matter that has provoked a lot of hue and cry over the past […]