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How to raise a boy: As we raise a generation of digital citizens, what we need is mutual trustSubscriber Only

April 21,2025 11:26:52 AM

Amidst normalisation of misogyny, misguided ideas about sex and sexuality and social-disconnectedness, this mutual trust is the assurance that we and our children can keep having much-needed hard conversations without losing connection with each other

Sun, Apr 27, 2025

Arguments for India as a ‘civilisational state’ don’t present a true picture of the pastSubscriber Only

May 28,2022 03:15:00 AM

Aparna Vaidik writes: This understanding of Indian history rests on a willful forgetting of the exploitation of women and the oppression of labouring castes, pastoral, nomadic and forest communities.

Sat, May 28, 2022

Who really killed the Mahatma?Subscriber Only

November 20,2021 11:00:39 AM

'The Murderer, The Monarch and the Fakir: A New Investigation of Mahatma Gandhi's Assassination' by Appu Esthose Suresh and Priyanka Kotamraju examines the Hindutva imagination that led to the murder of the visionary leader

Sat, Nov 20, 2021

Renaming islands in Andamans obscures complex loyalties, horrific memoriesSubscriber Only

January 09,2019 00:45:10 AM

The irony is the more we rename the more we erase; and what gets swept away is not the Mughal or the British master’s history, but our own past.

Wed, Jan 09, 2019

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Hindu selfhood and cow storiesSubscriber Only

October 09,2015 00:00:47 AM

The fount of Bharmall’s tale is the history of medieval Rajasthan, where cow protection against diseases and raids was a definitive aspect of the lives of pastoral communities.

Fri, Oct 09, 2015