The writer teaches Hindi at Delhi University.

February 21, 2019 00:33 IST
Namvar Singh was inarguably the first and the only Hindi scholar and intellectual who commanded the respectful attention of luminaries from the world of social sciences and politics.
Thu, Feb 21, 2019
February 14, 2019 00:08 IST
Impasse in Babri masjid case is better than ceding ground to a radical evil.
Thu, Feb 14, 2019
December 31, 2018 00:15 IST
The court’s lament about the recurrence of mass violence and the absence of laws against it in the 1984 judgment needs to be heard.
Mon, Dec 31, 2018
December 08, 2018 00:30 IST
A survey shows Indian campuses are more inclusive than before, but a lot of ground needs to be covered still
Sat, Dec 08, 2018
September 21, 2018 00:20 IST
Government has forgotten that children have a first right to nation’s resources
Fri, Sep 21, 2018
August 25, 2018 00:30 IST
A decade after anti-Christian violence took a toll, there are no signs of remorse
Sun, Aug 26, 2018
August 04, 2018 00:20 IST
Congress must remember: When in doubt, stand with the persecuted.
Sat, Aug 04, 2018
July 10, 2018 00:07 IST
The trolls that target Sushma Swaraj are a byproduct of her and her party’s politics
Tue, Jul 10, 2018
June 07, 2018 00:15 IST
Optimism over Pranab Mukherjee addressing RSS meet is misplaced
Thu, Jun 07, 2018
May 07, 2018 00:45 IST
Karl Marx envisioned a world where humans are not abstracted by societies or commodities
Mon, May 07, 2018
April 24, 2018 00:16 IST
Let silence, the absence of language force us to look at crime non-poetically
Tue, Apr 24, 2018
March 22, 2018 00:08 IST
Think about it: Liberals and RSS both want Muslims to shed their Muslimness.
Sat, Mar 24, 2018
January 12, 2018 00:00 IST
Mahatma Gandhi blamed no one, but if the “Hindus and Sikhs insisted on turning out Muslims from Delhi, they would be betraying India and their own faith”.
Sat, Jan 13, 2018
September 07, 2017 00:30 IST
That an individual can source divinity within herself was unimaginable for religious institutions. But for the institution of the nation state, the individual remains as suspect.
Thu, Sep 07, 2017
August 15, 2017 00:02 IST
Orders to madrasas in UP and MP bear a dangerous message of domination.
Tue, Aug 15, 2017
June 28, 2017 01:21 IST
The lynching of Ayub Pandit must make people of the Valley pause and ask: Is the Kashmiri soul being brutalised ? Kashmiri leaders will have to talk to their people frankly like Gandhi did after Chauri Chaura.
Wed, Jun 28, 2017
June 01, 2017 00:59 IST
Relationship between government, army and us is being rewritten, disturbingly so
Thu, Jun 01, 2017
April 14, 2017 00:15 IST
By siding with a politics which marginalises minorities and seeks to subjugate them, Hindus are losing the essence of their religion
Fri, Apr 14, 2017
February 25, 2017 00:01 IST
As a Communist student activist, I was never attacked by your members. That was another era.
Mon, Feb 27, 2017
February 21, 2017 00:00 IST
Digital education isn’t democratic, it creates deep inequalities between universities.
Tue, Feb 21, 2017
February 10, 2017 00:00 IST
Attacks on Nivedita Menon, Rajshree Ranawat show the decline of state universities, perversion of student politics
Fri, Feb 10, 2017
December 10, 2016 00:02 IST
Government directive to educational institutions to execute the digital financial literacy mission subverts the idea of the university.
Sat, Dec 10, 2016
November 12, 2016 00:05 IST
Muktibodh was a Marxist writer, seeking the self’s freedom.
Sat, Nov 12, 2016
October 12, 2016 00:00 IST
The UP government’s move to pay relief to the family of an accused in the Dadri lynching turns the principle of justice on its head.
Wed, Oct 12, 2016
May 31, 2016 00:25 IST
Modi regime’s obsession with the ‘new’ and ‘historic’ is reminiscent of other attempts in history to purge the ‘old’, and to create the ‘non-people’.
Tue, May 31, 2016




