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Two palanquins carrying photographs of Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, B R Ambedkar and Jyotiba Phule were at the forefront of the procession.

Certain communities such as the Denotified Tribes (DNTs), which have a history of persecution by the criminal justice system, are targeted under specific laws and legal provisions.

What the UP ordinance shows is that we have entered an era of belligerent Hindutva, which thrives by weaponising laws against love and choice. Adding the term jihad to love is not accidental.

Asserting that the charge of non-performance against her government was not true, Mrs Gandhi said she had not realised the gravity of the shattered economy she had inherited from the previous government.

If we truly want to ensure the livelihoods of our farmers and provide safe, healthy, nutritious food for our consumers, it is imperative to make policies that go beyond the productivity trope and populist posturing.

How should India, an economy dependent on fossil fuels, navigate future energy transitions? A new book has some pointers

India has voted, with other countries at UN, to no longer treat cannabis as a dangerous drug. Decriminalisation must follow

India is one of the few major climate stakeholders on track to over-achieve the targets it had committed. With civilisational links to nature, India is a strong proponent of global action on global warming.

Can the Centre and the Punjab government join hands to find a sustainable solution to farmers’ incomes and also save depleting water, soil, and air? Only then can they make Punjab great again.

After demonising, trashing opposition, the Modi government is talking. It needs to do more hard work to get reforms through

A study published in 2018 on students in the US, found e-cigarette to be a gateway product to conventional smoking and tobacco use, severely undermining the country’s tobacco control efforts.

The frontline workers can make a crucial difference in training diabetes patients to manage the disease.

To embrace this opportunity, India needs investment in research and development.

To embrace this opportunity, India needs investment in research and development.

In a democracy, the people’s voice is not heard just through the ballot box, and it is beginning to look as if Prime Minister Modi has forgotten this.

The 'love jihad' law is an onslaught on choice; on freedom; on privacy; on dignity; on the equality of man and woman; and on the right to love or live together or marry.

For a week beginning October 25, 1988, nearly 500,000 farmers took over the heart of the Capital, occupying Boat Club and its lawns, within earshot of North and South Blocks, and Parliament where the winter

Now recovered, Manpreet Singh and the team have restarted their preparations for the 2021 Tokyo Olympics.

President Ram Nath Kovind was keen to try out the VVIP Air India One aircraft dedicated for the exclusive use of the President, Prime Minister and Vice President, and went on the inaugural flight.

Mahaparinirvan Diwas and Shaurya Diwas offer competing visions of nation building, and are a contrast between Ambedkar’s idea of India and the Hindu right’s agenda.

The surrender of the state to Saeed was a blend of two contingencies — the evolution of the ideology of the state under Islam, and the drive of a revisionist policy vis-à-vis India.

So even as economies heal from COVID-19, the distribution of incomes across capital and labour risks becoming very skewed in favour of capital. Why does this matter? Equity issues apart, this portends ominously for future

What explains Hindutva’s rage against Faisal and the Khudai Khidmatagars? The clue, once more, lies in the past.

Post 2014, two centralisations — of political and economic power — continue to reinforce each other, with profound consequences for the country and potential to define popular narrative in days ahead.

We identified four pillars on which the fight against COVID-19 would stand — testing, ambulances, COVID beds and abundant trained doctors/ paramedics. Testing, tracing, tracking, quarantine and treatment became the credo of our work.