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Social media wars: Will resurgent Congress trump complacent BJP in 2019?

A lot has changed between 2014 and 2018 in how India’s two major parties—the Congress and the BJP—work their social media ‘capabilities and handling’.

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The reality of slavery and debt bondage in India

There are approximately 18 million people in India living and working without freedom of movement, abused, and on miserably low wage.

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‘Hatred is a disease. It has to be treated’

Tucked in Delhi’s south-east, Jamia Nagar is a sprawling locality home to the Jamia Millia Islamia university as also numerous residential areas around it. It is a curiously mixed place, with small industries, cramped workshops and famous eateries jostling for space with congested housing and visibly unplanned areas. Yet, it…

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Irani, Queen of Controversy and Quarrel

So, what can Irani do to stay relevant and on top of the political sweepstakes with just the low-profile Textile Ministry in her charge? Remember the last time when she was sacked as HRD minister? Irani grabbed eyeballs, that too in the midst of an all-important BJP party leadership meeting…

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Radio In A Purse: The Indian #MeToo moment

Radio In A Purse project, a Bangalore-based initiative, is capturing students’ stories of being sexually harassed on university campuses across the city. Set up in 2017, the initiative records audio testimonies of sexual harassment by fitting purses with audio equipment. In doing so, the initiative is enabling sharing and facilitation…

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How the Citizenship Bill is reopening old wounds in the Northeast

A visit to Assam and Meghalaya by members of a Joint Parliamentary Committee examining the contentious draft Citizenship (Amendment) Bill of 2016 has brought to the fore old fractures between communities that were in the process of healing, and raised fears of fresh unrest in a region that turned towards…

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Delhi’s Yamuna: A huge septic tank

Delhi has found new ways of contaminating the Yamuna river: electronic waste. As also the subsoil and ground water: A United Nations-backed study pointed out that India generated nearly 5 per cent of electronic waste produced globally in 2016.

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TB and the woeful state of health reporting in India

In January 2017, the Indian media reported on an exceptional legal battle playing out before the Delhi High Court regarding a young lady suffering from multi-drug resistant tuberculosis, suing the Indian government for access to a new TB drug called bedaquiline that was supposed to be effective on TB patients resistant to…

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Why #WuhanSummit is path-breaking

National power is defined as the ability of a nation to attain its strategic objectives by directed action. National power is no longer restricted to the military but also includes a multiplicity of factors such as strength of the economy, human resources, availability of national resources, knowledge and science and…

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Jahangiri justice, Tughlaqi judges

Over the last few years there has been a discernible, if also disturbing, trend to involve, or even drag in the judiciary to settle political scores. While instituting all sorts of cases – fake or genuine, criminal or civil – against political rivals has for long been part and parcel…

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Why brands like Amazon unfriend actors like Swara Bhaskar

Like Hollywood, the Mumbai film industry too can offer a lesson or two to the world every once in a while. For the past two weeks or so, Swara Bhaskar, an up-and-coming Indian actress, has been at the centre of a most curious unravelling.

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#KarnatakaElections: Where some sons have risen, some set and others got eclipsed

Darshan Puttannaiah would have been sitting on the other side of the globe in Denver, US. Instead, he is traversing the length and breadth of Melkote constituency in Mandya district, contesting this Karnataka election as the candidate of Swaraj India.

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India is not Rahul Gandhi’s upset wife

In a recent piece on Newslaundry titled “Is Rahul Gandhi the Kalidasa of Indian politics?” the author Abid Shah used the following line:

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How the humble karyakarta can transform governance in India

Full disclosure: This column invites pieces from people across political parties. Please check the bio for the author’s political affiliations.

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Can opposition stand up to Modi in 2019?

The talk of alternative political alignments is in the air. With the BJP failing on most fronts and moving more towards aggressive Hindutva, all anti-BJP forces and even some erstwhile BJP leaders and allies are scouting for alternative formations to take on the Narendra Modi-Amit Shah combine.

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Women in media: The power and the struggle

Each year, the Network of Women in Media (NWMI), India, holds a national meet for its members, who hail from a range of platforms in states across India. On January 4-6, Chennai’s Anna University hosted over 100 female journalists – early-career reporters, long-time veterans of print newsrooms, old friends, new…

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Why Barkha’s liberal-bashing in the Post is illogical

Can born again lib elites ever shake off the Left-Right binary in looking at our glorious republic even as they feverishly hype up the blinding flash of corporate cash? Barkha Dutt’s article in Washington Post titled ‘The Taj Mahal could be adopted by a corporation. India’s Liberals need to get over it’ is…

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#WorldPressFreedomDay: How free is India’s ‘free press’?

Every year, Reporters Without Borders (RSF), an international non-profit, publishes a report on freedom of the press around the world. And for the second consecutive year, India has slipped in the rankings.

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#Impeachment: Congress terms Vice-President’s order ‘ill-advised’ but what next?

Yesterday morning Vice-President Venkaiah Naidu rejected the notice to initiate the impeachment motion against Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra. It was expected that the Opposition parties including the Congress party will pounce on the opportunity to hit back at the governing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Barely hours later, when…

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So, what were the real reasons for the cash crunch?

“Nobody knows, nobody knows, how the elephant blows his nose. Does he do a-tishoo on a tissue? Or does he simply wipe it on his toes? Nobody knows, nobody knows.”

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India’s golden girls

Traditionally, Indian sports have been male-dominated. But the emergence of some top women players in the last few years has signalled a major shift in this sphere. Gold Coast 2018 was no different.

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#Impeachment: ‘CBI has enough proof to nail CJI Misra’

The opposition parties’ move to submit a notice to Rajya Sabha Chairman and Vice-President Venkaiah Naidu – requesting impeachment proceedings against Chief Justice of India (CJI) Dipak Misra – is just the beginning of the process.

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#Impeachment of Chief Justice (in 5 not-so-easy steps)

Wheels have been set in motion for the unprecedented impeachment motion against the Chief Justice of India. On Friday, the main opposition Congress and six other parties moved a notice – signed by 71 current and retired lawmakers of the Rajya Sabha – for the impeachment of Chief Justice Dipak…

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#KarnatakaAssemblyElection: Ayodhya, Tipu and Kits for Minority Journalists

For those who believe elections in India are about roti, kapda, makaan, here is a reminder that they are wrong. Sanjay Patil, the Bharatiya Janata Party lawmaker from Belagavi (Rural), who has been given the ticket by the party again this time, is emphatic that the May 12 election is…

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Over 100 students from more than 50 varsities slam efforts to choke education institutions

From the infamous sedition row at Jawaharlal Nehru University to Rohith Vemula’s death at Hyderabad Central University campus, varsities across the country have been in news since 2016, exposing the underlying caste discrimination on India’s campuses. The exorbitant fee hike for scholarship students at Tata Institute of Social Services and…

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