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India’s Waqf Reform: When Property Rights Meet Majoritarianism
1 month, 1 week ago

India’s Waqf Reform: When Property Rights Meet Majoritarianism

The Hindu  

Published : Nov 13, 2024 08:46 IST - 9 MINS READ The Waqf Bill, 2024, alongside the proposed uniform civil code, underscores the Narendra Modi government’s broader plan to reshape the sociopolitical landscape, particularly that of the country’s Muslim community. As Asaf A.A. Fyzee notes in his seminal work, Outlines of Muhammadan Law, there has been a consistent trend towards …

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Love Across Divides: The Complex Lives of Hindu-Muslim Couples in India
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Love Across Divides: The Complex Lives of Hindu-Muslim Couples in India

The Hindu  

The article explores the complex lives of Hindu-Muslim couples in India, examining the challenges and choices they face in navigating religious differences and societal norms. Through in-depth interviews with couples, the book challenges the harmful stereotypes and prejudices surrounding Hindu-Muslim relationships, highlighting the love and commitment that transcends religious boundaries. The author sheds light on the internal conflicts faced by …

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Online Talk About ‘Civil War’ Could Inspire Real-World Violence, DHS Warns Cops
2 months ago

Online Talk About ‘Civil War’ Could Inspire Real-World Violence, DHS Warns Cops

Wired  

Earlier this year, a Pennsylvania man beheaded his father, who worked as a federal employee, and displayed the severed head in a video where he urged viewers to rise up against the government. Another man in Illinois was building bombs he hoped to one day use against a “corrupt government.” In two separate cases, people were arrested for threatening to …

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Letters to the Editor (July 26, 2024)
5 months, 1 week ago

Letters to the Editor (July 26, 2024)

The Hindu  

Readers respond to Frontline’s coverage. The verdict delivered by India’s voters in 2024 not only reflects the vibrancy of our democracy but also holds an important lesson for the national parties: never underestimate the power of regional parties. Srinivasan Secunderabad, Telangana RSS vs Modi It is interesting that the RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat chose to say what he did about …

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Documenting and analysing 75 years of the DMK
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Documenting and analysing 75 years of the DMK

The Hindu  

On September 17, 1949, a group of young Tamil men, led by their leader C.N. As the party is set to complete 75 years in the political scape, biographer R. Kannan in his latest work ‘The DMK Years: Ascent, Descent, Survival’ attempts to provide an objective account to look into the political mobilisation of the DMK, the major splits, including …

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Clarkson’s Farm review: Laced with Tory dog-whistles, but undeniably irresistible
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Clarkson’s Farm review: Laced with Tory dog-whistles, but undeniably irresistible

The Independent  

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'Monkey Man': Will This Fervent Political Thriller Get a Release In India?
8 months, 1 week ago

'Monkey Man': Will This Fervent Political Thriller Get a Release In India?

The Quint  

While one could argue that these references are too vague and diluted to say something substantial, they actually undergird the emotional core of the story quite effectively without highjacking the narrative, like many “serious” sociopolitical dramas tend to do. Instead, Monkey Man retains the body of a bloody action thriller and infuses a political beating heart within it. The film …

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Record number of migrants arrived this year in Spain’s Canary Islands, most from Senegal
1 year, 1 month ago

Record number of migrants arrived this year in Spain’s Canary Islands, most from Senegal

LA Times  

Migrants crowd a wooden boat as they are towed to the port in La Restinga on the Canary island of El Hierro on Saturday. A record number of migrants have made the treacherous boat journey on the Atlantic Ocean to Spain’s Canary Islands this year, and most of the 32,000 people are coming from Senegal. According to an Associated Press …

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Book Review: ‘Help Me with This Tricky Case’ by C.N. Annadurai, translated by Ramakrishnan V.
1 year, 2 months ago

Book Review: ‘Help Me with This Tricky Case’ by C.N. Annadurai, translated by Ramakrishnan V.

The Hindu  

Published : Oct 05, 2023 11:00 IST - 3 MINS READ C.N. Annadurai, translated by Ramakrishnan V. Bloomsbury India Pages: 224 Price: Rs.599 The Dravidian discourse, which got a new lease of life recently, found renewed vigour in the genre of medai pechu, or oratory, traces of which can be detected in all the writings of Annadurai, who was hailed …

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North Koreans told to protect portraits of Kim Jong Un as storm looms
1 year, 4 months ago

North Koreans told to protect portraits of Kim Jong Un as storm looms

India Today  

As the formidable tropical storm Khanun approaches, North Korean citizens have received a crucial directive: safeguard the portraits of the revered Kim dynasty. With heavy rainfall and powerful winds anticipated, the official newspaper of the ruling Korean Workers’ Party, Rodong Sinmun, has urged citizens to prioritize the safety of portraits depicting the current leader, Kim Jong-un, his father, Kim Jong-il, …

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Hope in "End Times": Peter Turchin's analysis of our coming collapse could help us avoid it
1 year, 5 months ago

Hope in "End Times": Peter Turchin's analysis of our coming collapse could help us avoid it

Salon  

The day Donald Trump was arraigned for unauthorized possession of national security documents — heightening his party's attacks on the nation's justice system — also saw the publication of Peter Turchin's new book, "End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration," arguably the most comprehensive explanation so far of the current and ongoing crisis of American politics. For …

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Explained | Did climate change really make the Uttar Pradesh heatwave twice as likely?
1 year, 5 months ago

Explained | Did climate change really make the Uttar Pradesh heatwave twice as likely?

The Hindu  

A deadly heatwave over Uttar Pradesh recently claimed as many as 100 lives. There were subsequently several reports saying that according to a model called the “Climate Shift Index”, developed by a reputed U.S. nonprofit called Climate Central, this heatwave was made twice as likely by climate change. What is the scientific confidence level in such local attribution of individual …

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Violence in Manipur: 8 stories that provide insight into the State’s complex sociopolitical history
1 year, 7 months ago

Violence in Manipur: 8 stories that provide insight into the State’s complex sociopolitical history

The Hindu  

Published : May 05, 2023 18:29 IST - 1 MIN READ Communal violence has erupted in the northeastern state of Manipur, displacing over 9,000 people from their villages. The violence broke out during a “Tribal Solidarity March” on May 3, which was organized by the All Tribal Students’ Union of Manipur to protest the inclusion of the Meitei community in …

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China wants AI to rival ChatGPT. Censorship makes that tricky
1 year, 9 months ago

China wants AI to rival ChatGPT. Censorship makes that tricky

Al Jazeera  

Chinese firms including Baidu and Alibaba are racing to roll out versions of the chatbots taking the tech world by storm. China’s Ministry of Science and Technology said last week it would push for the integration of AI across Chinese industry, while cities including Beijing have also announced plans to back developers. “The most general-purpose technology we have, artificial intelligence, …

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Review: Life of an Industani: Six Degrees of Separation by Shiv Kunal Verma
1 year, 9 months ago

Review: Life of an Industani: Six Degrees of Separation by Shiv Kunal Verma

Hindustan Times  

Filmmaker and military historian Shiv Kunal Verma’s account of his life, Life of an Industani: Six Degrees of Separation, is, in equal measure, a thrilling account of India’s sociopolitical landscape from the 1980s to the present. He writes about his dog, Maggi: “…After we landed and I disembarked, I let her loose on the tarmac and she promptly squatted under …

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Opinion: The fear for our LGBTQ family that never goes away
2 years, 1 month ago

Opinion: The fear for our LGBTQ family that never goes away

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Allison Hope is a writer whose work has been featured in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, Slate and elsewhere. What’s more, hate crimes are at a 13-year high, and one-in-five hate crimes target LGBTQ people, according to FBI data. One doesn’t need to look any further than the 2022 legislative season to …

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EDITOR’S NOTE | The Kantara Phenomenon
2 years, 1 month ago

EDITOR’S NOTE | The Kantara Phenomenon

The Hindu  

Published : Nov 17, 2022 10:40 IST Sometimes a pop culture phenomenon occurs that hints at shifting sociopolitical trends. I found it particularly curious how the film quickly absolved the state of wrongdoing and reinstated the landlord as villain; yet anyone who has worked closely with forest communities will know how much state and landlord work in tandem. At such …

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‘Land, Guns, Caste, Woman’ by Gita Ramaswamy showcases a fearless activist
2 years, 3 months ago

‘Land, Guns, Caste, Woman’ by Gita Ramaswamy showcases a fearless activist

The Hindu  

Published : Aug 27, 2022 13:30 IST MONTHS after being shunted out of Jagdalpur in February 2016 for writing stories that “tarnished the image of Chhattisgarh police”, I sat in the Dummugudem police station in Bhadradri Kothagudem district of Telangana waiting to talk to the station house officer about the murder of a pastor in Laxmipuram village allegedly by Maoists. …

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With Droupadi Murmu’s presidential nomination, great expectations on the ground
2 years, 5 months ago

With Droupadi Murmu’s presidential nomination, great expectations on the ground

The Hindu  

On July 1, Pahadpur, a nondescript village in Odisha’s Mayurbhanj district, looked decked out for a festival. Not a ‘rubber stamp’ As a former Governor of Jharkhand, Ms. Murmu has played a significant role in preventing the dilution of tribal land laws. Ever since June 21, when BJP chief J.P. Nadda announced Ms. Murmu as NDA’s Presidential candidate, many tribal …

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Queer Screenwriters On Why Inclusive Coming-Of-Age Stories Are Needed Now More Than Ever
2 years, 5 months ago

Queer Screenwriters On Why Inclusive Coming-Of-Age Stories Are Needed Now More Than Ever

Huff Post  

In recent years, we’ve seen new takes on the classic genre of the teen coming-of-age rom-com, flipping the script on what were once traditionally cisgender, heterosexual narratives. People can’t say gay in schools, there are all these attacks on trans youth,” said screenwriter and director Natalie Jasmine Harris, whose short film “Pure” premiered on HBO Max. Khalea Ross Robinson “I …

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In Tamil Nadu, assertion of caste identity has peace hanging by a thread, even in schools
2 years, 5 months ago

In Tamil Nadu, assertion of caste identity has peace hanging by a thread, even in schools

The Hindu  

A month after a Thevar boy was allegedly killed by a Scheduled Caste boy in a Government Higher Secondary School, fear was still palpable in Adaichani, a quiet village in the picturesque Ambasamudram Taluk of Tirunelveli district. We don’t know what exactly happened.” He also denied that Arundhathiyar boys wore caste threads in the village, but could not confirm that …

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UN rights chief warns of ‘unprecedented’ exodus from Nicaragua
2 years, 6 months ago

UN rights chief warns of ‘unprecedented’ exodus from Nicaragua

Al Jazeera  

Michelle Bachelet says ‘sociopolitical, economic and human rights crises’ are driving thousands out of the country. The United Nations human rights chief has warned that “sociopolitical, economic and human rights crises” in Nicaragua are forcing thousands to leave their homes, in a wave of migration that is growing in “unprecedented numbers”. At a Human Rights Council hearing on Thursday in …

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Woke, cancel culture and white privilege – how UK public reports feeling more divided
2 years, 7 months ago

Woke, cancel culture and white privilege – how UK public reports feeling more divided

The Independent  

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. In 2018, ‘cancel culture’ – an alleged prevalence of social and/or professional ostracism over …

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Know Your Classical Dances: How Bharatnatyam, rooted in temple dances of Devdasis, contributes to nation's sociopolitical climate
2 years, 8 months ago

Know Your Classical Dances: How Bharatnatyam, rooted in temple dances of Devdasis, contributes to nation's sociopolitical climate

Firstpost  

Indian classical dances – celebrated across the globe for their enriching and mesmerising virtuosity – can be traced back to centuries-old ways of storytelling, performed as much for entertainment as for the spread of cultures and knowledge. From a dance of the devdasis traditionally performed in temple precincts in Tamil Nadu to becoming a solo recital formalised by stalwarts like …

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