Teachers tasked with slapping fines

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 […]

‘Hate speech reinforces communal divides’

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 […]

Aspirants for sarkari jobs on the warpath due to delays

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 […]

Cops link CAA protests to riots  

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 […]

Muscular in the middle

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 […]

Ambedkar’s legacy under threat

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 […]

GDP is not just a number

When the economy contracts by nearly a fourth, it’s bound to affect all our lives, one way or another. We just may not be aware of it India first declared its quarterly gross domestic product, or GDP, figures for the period April to June 1996. GDP is a measure of the economic size of a […]

Truth vs MJ Akbar

Priya Ramani’s lawyer makes final arguments in MJ Akbar defamation suit Continuing from where she had left off on Saturday, Priya Ramani’s lawyer, Rebecca John, presented her final arguments at a virtual hearing on the defamation suit brought against the journalist by Bharatiya Janata Party leader MJ Akbar. Akbar had filed the case in October 2018, […]