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A farmer returns homewards from his farm in a village in Haryana on March 5, 2021. The ongoing farmer protests at the Ghazipur border outside Delhi entered the 100th day on March 6. Contentious new agricultural reform laws have led tens of thousands of farmers to block key highways leading to the capital. Multiple rounds of talks have failed to produce any breakthrough on the farmers' key demand to revoke the legislation. Photo: AP

Food Security and Markets: Understanding the Protests over India’s Changing Social Contract with Farmers

Sukhpal Singh

For more than 100 days now India’s farmers have protested at the Shinghu, Tikri and Ghazipur borders outside the national capital, New Delhi. Earlier, Punjab’s farmers protested within their State for three months before moving to Delhi borders, against a set of laws that would change the nature of the relationship between the state and the ...

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Villagers check their names in the final list of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Pabhokati village in Morigaon district, in Assam. File photo: AP

Assam's Tangled Web of Citizenship and the Importance of a Consensus

Sanjoy Hazarika

The demand for a National Register of Citizens (NRC) grew out of concerns voiced over decades in Assam and other North-eastern ...

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Supporters of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) celebrate the revocation of Article 370 at the party's headquarters in Mumbai, Maharashtra, on August 6, 2019. Photo: Vivek Bendre

Federalism and its Hindutva Detractors

Amitabha Pande

India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), focussed as it is on putting into practice long-held positions of the Rashtriya ...

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A view of Supreme Court in New Delhi. File photo: Shiv Kumar Pushpakar

More than terrorism, the danger faced by India is that the judiciary is slowly losing its independence: B.V. Acharya

S. Rajendran

B.V. Acharya, Senior Advocate and one of Karnataka’s eminent lawyers for several decades and five times Advocate General of the ...

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Students at the Corporation Girls' Higher Secondary School in Madurai on September 05, 2019. Photo: R. Ashok

Draft New Education Policy and Schools for the Skilling Age

Akila Radhakrishnan

The Draft National Education Policy, 2019, which aims to reform the education system in India has evoked a mixed response. In this ...

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Reason to cheer: The Nalsarians throwing their head gears into the air marking the passing-out during the Seventeenth Annual convocation of NALSAR University of Law in Hyderabad on July 27, 2019. Photo: Nagara Gopal / The Hindu

"Students need to develop 21st century skills which are analytical, applied and outcome oriented": M.K. Sridhar

S. Rajendran

Prof M.K. Sridhar , Member of the committee to draft the National Education Policy 2019 has been an educationist all through and ...

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RTI activists during a protest against changes to RTI Act at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on Monday, July 29, 2019. Photo: Shiv Kumar Pushpakar / The Hindu

‘These are times when ‘fair is foul’ and ‘foul is fair’’: Aruna Roy and Nikhil Dey

Vidya Subrahmaniam

The Narendra Modi Government has mounted an assault on public institutions and people’s fundamental rights and one such act is the ...

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