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Bihar has one of the highest concentrations of working people and marginalised communities in the country, many of whom are under-documented and live in conditions that make it impossible to maintain ...

Ultimately, the PEP drafters believe in participatory policy-making, involving everyone. They plan to gather feedback from people across the country over the next six months and finalize the policy ...

Does Bihar Show the Way? Of course, the perspective was different from the present one. Very recently, the Election Commission of India (EC) has initiated a Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the ...

India’s Constitution is more than a legal document. It carries the values of the freedom movement and the dreams of its makers. Two of its core principles - socialism and secularism are not foreign ...

In effect, Netanyahu has been strutting around the globe on the strength and assurance of the United States of America (USA), which is not just supplying the most modern and sophisticated arms, ...

What We Expect Queerness to Look Like There is a certain script that many people—especially allies, scholars, and supporters—have grown used to. It often goes like this: a person discovers they are ...

Rooted in Michel Foucault’s analysis and deepened by Giorgio Agamben’s radical meditations, biopolitics refers to the exercise of power over life itself—over bodies, populations, and the biological ...

(Author: Richa Walia, Associate Professor, Centre for Gender Studies, Institute for Development and Communication (IDC), Chandigarh, India) ...

How things hang together or balance each other is the dilemma of the amphibian we are talking about. How best to balance the needs of the self and urge it to go beyond. Focusing on the central theme ...

Delhi monsoons can be pretty depressing, much like its winters. I have been struggling to write for some time now, and it has always been the situation when in Delhi. Delhi excites, ridicules, makes ...

Religion, specially institutional religion always enjoys an advantage of having immunity from any sort of changeability as to its beliefs, practices and rituals. Hence, creationism hardly would have ...