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ASI’s work focused on North, need to find more evidence of life in South: Archaeologist at centre of Keeladi rowSubscriber Only
August 25, 2025 07:10 IST
In 2023, two years after Ramakrishna finally submitted his report, after a prodding from the court, the ASI asked him to revise it.
Mon, Aug 25, 2025
From Census of nearly a century ago, a roadmap — and a note of cautionSubscriber Only
May 04, 2025 04:21 IST
In the 1951 Census, in a newly Independent India shaped by the ideals of equality and secularism, the government led by Jawaharlal Nehru decided there would be no caste enumeration.
Sun, May 04, 2025
ASER 2024 | Reading, math skills improve in schools across states: What explains these gains?Subscriber Only
January 28, 2025 16:08 IST
ASER 2024 is based on a rural household survey conducted by Pratham, with 6,49,491 children across 605 rural districts.
Wed, Jan 29, 2025
G N Saibaba’s family remembers lost years: ‘Didn’t have enough of him’Subscriber Only
October 14, 2024 04:20 IST
Saibaba, 57, died late October 12 following post-operative complications from a gallbladder surgery at Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences in Hyderabad. The family said Saibaba’s body would be donated to Gandhi Medical College in Telangana on Monday.
Thu, Oct 17, 2024
‘Women are travelling like they are possessed… Where are they going?’: Bus journeys through poll-bound KarnatakaSubscriber Only
May 04, 2024 07:18 IST
In the midst of an election marked by welfare politics and schemes targeting women, The Indian Express travelled 528 km in buses of Karnataka’s road transport corporations – from Belagavi in the north to Hubballi, winding their way down to Haveri, Davanagere and, finally, Bengaluru on voting day – to find women claiming the public space, and asking for more
Mon, May 06, 2024
G N Saibaba: ‘I lost much more than 10 years I spent in jail’Subscriber Only
April 27, 2024 10:19 IST
Acquitted after 10 years in jail under UAPA, former Delhi University Assistant Professor G N Saibaba looks back on life in 'hell': from classes in Nagpur's Anda Cell to letters to his daughter, from his wife's resolve to a mother who died broken, and a lifetime's work that's 'gone'
Sat, Oct 12, 2024
In Hubballi, a friendship, a murder and two sides in a poll campaignSubscriber Only
April 26, 2024 05:04 IST
The horror of the killing, caught on CCTV cameras, has left the town shocked while sparking a political firestorm with barely two weeks to go for voting on May 7 in Dharwad constituency of which Hubballi is a part.
Fri, Apr 26, 2024
Looking for Bhagat Singh: letters from jail, a lost photo studio, a statue in ParliamentSubscriber Only
December 23, 2023 06:53 IST
The breach in Parliament that triggered the en masse suspension of Opposition MPs was attributed to a group of young men and a woman who got together in the name of Bhagat Singh. A look at why, nearly a century after his death, the thinker-revolutionary retains his enduring appeal
Sun, Dec 24, 2023
In Nuh, old bonds and new rifts: How a town on slow boil spilled overSubscriber Only
August 18, 2023 13:28 IST
Days after Nuh witnessed a rare communal outburst, The Indian Express travels to the Haryana town to find how cow vigilantism, lack of opportunities for the youth and deep-set biases stoked the fire
Sun, Aug 20, 2023
ASER 2022: Parents’ help, tuition and online classes: How kids learnt with classroom locked downSubscriber Only
January 19, 2023 04:50 IST
The report provides some pointers on how children may have picked up key reading and counting skills despite being away from regular classrooms.
Sun, Jan 22, 2023
Kobad Ghandy: ‘Book not Maoist in any way… Social media hysteria created only to get govt to cancel award’Subscriber Only
December 16, 2022 18:05 IST
Kobad Ghandy tells The Indian Express, “It is unfortunate that the Maharashtra government has fallen prey to this campaign … But this does not diminish the quality and ability of the translator, Anagha Lele.”
Sat, Dec 17, 2022
Nothing left to lose, be scared of: Prof whose wrist was severed by PFI menSubscriber Only
October 02, 2022 04:04 IST
On July 4, 2010, Joseph, an Associate Professor and Head of Department of Malayalam at Newman College in Idukki, Kerala, was the target of one of the most vicious attacks by members of the Popular Front of India (PFI) -- 13 of them were convicted by a court.
Sun, Oct 02, 2022
Gopinath Ravindran: The academic whom Kerala Governor called ‘criminal’Subscriber Only
August 24, 2022 18:24 IST
While Ravindran is yet to respond to the attack, over 50 historians and prominent academics have issued a statement "deploring" Kerala Governor Arif Mohammad Khan's remarks and extending their support to him.
Wed, Aug 24, 2022
Explained | Missionaries, banks, individuals: behind Udupi’s tradition of educationSubscriber Only
March 17, 2022 03:22 IST
The region — Udupi was carved out of Dakshina Kannada (South Canara) as a separate district in 1997 — was part of the Madras Presidency of the Raj. The foundations of education in the region were laid by Christian missionaries. This gave coastal Karnataka a head start compared to other regions of the state.
Thu, Mar 17, 2022
‘Education & religion like two eyes… we want both’Subscriber Only
March 16, 2022 01:24 IST
Over the last month, as the hijab controversy cleaved through the state and its politics, all the stakeholders were waiting for the court verdict amid concerns over its likely impact on the education of Muslim girls in the state.
Thu, Mar 17, 2022
A letter from Karnataka: Udupi, Class of 2022Subscriber Only
February 13, 2022 03:50 IST
The walk to the canteen, after-class hangouts, shared benches — simple campus joys have been disrupted as students face off in Udupi over wearing the hijab to class. UMA VISHNU travels to the coastal Karnataka town to explore what lies beneath the anxieties that run deep
Sun, Feb 13, 2022
Before hijab standoff, an anti-rape protest, faith, political rivalrySubscriber Only
February 11, 2022 04:00 IST
On December 27, the two girls were among the eight hijab-wearing students of the Government Pre-University College for Girls in Udupi who were asked to leave their classrooms, triggering a standoff that reached the Karnataka High Court and drew global attention.
Fri, Feb 11, 2022
A tale of two colleges: One stands up for student, other shuts downSubscriber Only
February 09, 2022 01:05 IST
Beyond the divisive images and crowds shouting at each other, these are two shades of the hijab row that played out in Karnataka Tuesday before the government shut down all high schools and colleges for three days in a bid to lower the rising heat.
Wed, Feb 09, 2022
CPI(Maoist) expels Kobad Ghandy, accuses him of ‘spiritualism’, distancing himself from outfitSubscriber Only
December 01, 2021 16:13 IST
Ghandy was arrested in Sept 2009 on charges of being a Politburo member of the banned CPI(Maoist). Accused of plotting to carry out terror attacks, he spent a decade in jails across the country.
Thu, Dec 02, 2021
She Said: When Lucy learnt to drive, and other storiesSubscriber Only
July 11, 2021 03:39 IST
Uma Vishnu writes: Driving as a skill, by itself, is as genderless as cooking or chairing a boardroom meeting, but don’t we all know which way the scales so often tip?
Sun, Jul 11, 2021
Prabhat Jha: ‘Lack of death data prolongs pandemic… survey villages’Subscriber Only
May 25, 2021 04:17 IST
India has about 10 million deaths occurring a year, of which 7 million occur in the rural areas. So you have to look at counting the dead separately for urban and rural India.
Tue, May 25, 2021
‘We have to relook and reimagine the way our schools run… so that children don’t get lost in cyberspace’Subscriber Only
April 17, 2021 03:47 IST
With educational institutions shut for over a year, how does the future of education look in a Covid-altered world? Is the idea of a university as a physical space under threat? A panel of experts weighs in
Sat, Apr 17, 2021
Doon, London, Maoism, Tihar: pieces of his ‘fractured freedom’Subscriber Only
March 28, 2021 23:22 IST
Kobad Ghandy's just released memoir (Roli Books) tracks his journey from privilege in Mumbai and London of the 1970s to his life and work in some of the poorest slums of Maharashtra with wife Anuradha, until his arrest in September 2009 on charges of being a Politburo member of the banned CPI(Maoist).
Mon, Mar 29, 2021
There was consultation (on farm laws), but there could have been more… I don’t know who was consulted: Sanjeev BalyanSubscriber Only
March 16, 2021 15:57 IST
Minister of State for Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries Sanjeev Balyan says the farm Bills don't affect the farmers of western UP, that the government has "enough time" ahead of the elections and dismisses the protests he faced in the region as being "politically motivated".
Tue, Mar 16, 2021
In western UP’s sugarcane belt, hint of new solidarities over farm protestsSubscriber Only
March 16, 2021 04:40 IST
At his home in Muzaffarnagar, 84-year-old farmer leader Ghulam Mohammad Jaula, longtime associate of Mahendra Singh Tikait, recalls the events of January 28, after Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader and Tikait's son Rakesh broke down.
Tue, Mar 16, 2021Journalism of Courage
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