Sahil Wakode and IIT Bombay’s Caste Discrimination Record
Frontlineby Amey Tirodkar AI Summary9d ago
“I want justice for Sahil. That’s the only demand I am making as Sahil’s mother. I want nothing else,” said Sonali Wakode at Mumbai’s Azad Maidan.
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top 99%Grief Burns Like Fever: A Novel of Pandemic and Loss
Frontlineby Aditya Mani Jha9d ago
The phrase “uncanny valley” is used to describe the complicated mixture of feelings evoked by watching something non-human that closely resembles an actual human being: anthropomorphic animals, a...
Queer India Sanitised
Frontlineby Ashley Tellis9d ago
That a corporate “culture lab” has partnered with a corporate publisher to tell us what queer India now is, is not surprising.
How Montage Became Cinema's Trap: Dhurandhar, DC and Toxic: A Fairy Tale for Grown-ups
Frontlineby Prathyush Parasuraman AI Summary9d ago
First Dhurandhar, then DC, then Toxic: A Fairy Tale for Grown-ups—three films this year that foreground male angst, all three emblematic of the montage movie, a new kind of cinema.
India’s Election Crisis and the Erosion of Public Trust
Frontlineby Muqtedar Khan9d ago
India is once again embroiled in a controversy that follows a familiar pattern: a failure of governance manifests itself; those responsible initially deny the problem and resist calls to address...
Democracy Hollowed Out
Frontlineby Vaishna Roy AI Summary9d ago
At the best of times, elections can only be an approximate barometer of real democratic depth. It is real citizen participation in everyday governance that signals substantive democracy.
IIT Bombay suicide and the ethics of airing CCTV footage
Frontlineby Jyoti Punwani9d ago
Should the CCTV footage of IIT Bombay student Sahil Wakode writing his exam and being confronted by the invigilator have been aired?
Q on Deshlai, Failed Youth, and Independent Cinema
Frontlineby Devarsi Ghosh10d ago
“All my films are a result of failures,” says Q. “Every time I failed at something, my response was to make a film.” Little wonder that the 53-year-old Bengali filmmaker is one of India’s foremost...
Justice Sharma Recusal Row and India’s Judicial Ethics
Frontlineby V Venkatesan AI Summary10d ago
In 1998, the former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet was fighting extradition from Britain to Spain, where proceedings had been initiated against him over allegations of torture and other grave...
J&K Assembly Passes Resolution Seeking Immediate Statehood
Frontlineby Gowhar Geelani AI Summary10d ago
After BJP legislators created an uproar and staged a walkout, the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly passed a resolution seeking immediate restoration of full statehood on September 28, during...
IIT Bombay’s caste problem predates Sahil Wakode’s suicide
Frontlineby Amey Tirodkar AI Summary10d ago
The IIT Bombay (IIT-B) administration, which is in the eye of a storm after a Scheduled Caste (SC) student named Sahil Wakode died by suicide on September 18, has denied that there is caste...
UCC has diluted inheritance rights of Hindu and Muslim women in Uttarakhand
Frontlineby Ajaz Ashraf AI Summary10d ago
Union Home Minister Amit Shah recently threatened to introduce the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) in all the States governed by the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance before 2029.
India’s political class and its deep ties to the US
Frontlineby Saba Naqvi AI Summary10d ago
At a time when the world order is shifting on its axis, it is worth noting how some nations helming this transformation have shaped their psychological and legal approach to their own citizens who...
Once Upon A Time | Anaxagoras: The Dangers of Being An Intellectual
Frontlineby Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay AI Summary12d ago
Dear Reader, Around the 5th century BCE, there lived in Athens an unsmiling, grim-countenanced man by the name of Anaxagoras, who went about claiming that the stars were fiery stones, the sun was a...
Damodar Mauzo: Why Konkani Chose Him as a Writer
Frontlineby Majid Maqbool AI Summary12d ago
Damodar Mauzo’s first library was two books, brought home by his father when typhoid confined him to bed as a boy.
"Mirzapur: The Movie" and the Limits of Female Power
Frontlineby Sarthak Parashar12d ago
Conversation around Mirzapur, one of India’s most popular streaming shows, often circles back to how strong its female characters are.
In Meghamalai, Forest Protection Meets a Humanitarian Crisis
Frontlineby Ilangovan Rajasekaran AI Summary12d ago
About 5,000 hectares (ha) of forest land in the ecologically vulnerable Western Ghats in Tamil Nadu’s Theni district has been classified as “encroached” upon and around 5,300 families have been...
Mayyu Ali’s Memoir Eradication Exposes the Orchestrated Genocide of the Rohingya
Frontlineby Amritesh Mukherjee12d ago
What does home mean to you: The four walls of your house? The deed to a land? A feeling, a memory? Or all of the above?
India LPG Crisis: Why Cooking Gas Supplies Are Falling
Frontlineby Mitali Mukherjee AI Summary12d ago
Life in India has begun to resemble a Mortal Kombat video game, where attending to basic needs like cooking gas and fundamental rights like voting requires fighting layer after layer of...
The Blue Book and the Search for India’s Forgotten Histories
Frontlineby Anusua Mukherjee12d ago
Dear Reader, I follow artist and writer Siddhesh Gautam (@bakeryprasad) on Instagram: his page is not only visually attractive, with posts containing his artworks, but is also a good source of...