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Lian*, a 30-year-old PhD scholar from Churachandpur, was among 284 Manipur University students from the Kuki-Zo communities who had approached the Supreme Court in November last year. It was to ensure he could continue his studies from other central universities after being displaced by ethnic violence. But he is “in…

हरिशंकर परसाई का बहुत लोकप्रिय कथन है- मूर्खता का आत्मविश्वास सबसे प्रचंड होता है. यह अलग बात है कि कोई भी खुद को मूर्ख कहलाना पसंद नहीं करता. गए हफ्ते मूर्खता का घोड़ा तगड़क-तगड़क दौड़ रहा था. कंगना रनौत हों या असम के मुख्यमंत्री हिमंता बिस्व सरमा, इनके अंदर हर…

Covid lockdowns were just being lifted when Anuja* moved to Kochi with aspirations of writing and eventually directing films. She came to work in Malayalam cinema a few years after the arrest of actor Dileep for allegedly orchestrating the sexual assault of a female colleague in 2017. The problems in…

In a typical year, Savitra Thadke, 50, and her husband work as sugarcane cutters at farms in Sangli or Kolhapur in western Maharashtra from October to March-April. In the summer months of April-June, they work as agricultural labourers in their village, Chopdyachiwadi in the Georai taluka of Beed district. Savitra could even…