Simple formula Sir — The West Bengal government recently increased the number of people allowed to attend weddings to 200 or half the venue’s capacity, whichever is less. Indian weddings ...

The international relations department of Jadavpur University has inscribed the Preamble to the Constitution on a wall in the corridor of the department “to remind students what the country stan...

‘Constitution Day’ was celebrated in an interesting manner this time. The Bharatiya Janata Party government took the opportunity to interrogate the political credibility of Oppos...

Chief Justice of India N.V. Ramana on Friday extolled “debate and discussion” and tied it to India’s progress while Prime Minister Narendra Modi suggested the country’s growth ...

BTech students of NIT Durgapur will have to compulsorily study the Indian Constitution because the tech school thinks an engineering student must have an idea about the ethos of plurality and diversit...

Free-market economists supported the now withdrawn farm laws in the belief that they would augment incomes and productivity. Left-leaning economists opposed the farm laws in the belief that they would...

One of the great casualties of this era has been the idea and the institution of the university. The modern university, as the sociologist, Patrick Geddes, pointed out, was a contract between the oral...

The ascendancy of majoritarianism in several parts of the world calls into question the historical significance of India’s experiment with pluralism. This broad popularity of majoritarian partie...

“Your grandfather left us to live with termites for all the times to come.” This is what a man told me in an email after an article of mine, published on another platform, had evidently ne...

Art provokes. It challenges prejudices, pushes the boundaries of settled thought and discovers new forms and modes — all of which can cause discomfort, even anger. The transgressive nature of cr...