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Re-writing History, Saffronising Education: Remembering Nangeli Lest Government Makes Us Forget
19 Mar 2019
NCERT has dropped three chapters—“Clothing: A Social History”, “History and Sport: The Story of Cricket”, “Peasants and Farmers”— from the Class 9 history textbook, titled India and the Contemporary…
Bharathy Singaravel
The Season of Absurdity in the Election Year
18 Mar 2019
PM Modi’s #MainBhiChowkidar is a grand example of the BJP’s out of proportion responses to non-issues while glibly missing the actual point, pushing the electoral system towards a volatile future.
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The Three Chapters CBSE Wants Erased From Class IX Textbooks
18 Mar 2019
One dropped chapter in the NCERT social sciences textbook is based on caste struggle of the Nadar community of Travancore, while two others deal with class inequalities in sports, and peasants and…
Tarique Anwar, Abdul Alim Jafri
PM Modi’s ‘Mann ki Baat’ Not Well Received by Non-Hindi Speaking TV Audience
18 Mar 2019
Trend suggests that it was mostly watched by rural Hindi audiences of the country on Doordarshan, and that there was a dip in the viewership post 2016, after the PM completed two years in office.
Aaquib Khan
Rafale Deal: The Big Difference With Bofors is Nobody Has Found Money Trail Yet: N Ram
15 Mar 2019
Senior journalist and Chairman of Kasturi & Sons, which publishes The Hindu, speaks about series of investigative articles recently published in the newspaper, suggesting the PMO’s involvement in…
Abdul Alim Jafri
Elections 2019: Bhim Army Chief Chandrashekhar Azad’s Hunkar Rally on March 15
14 Mar 2019
Azad urged the people to reach Jantar Mantar in Delhi for Hunkar Rally in huge numbers so as to speak out against the increasing atrocities against Dalits and minorities by the Modi government.
Sumedha Pal
Statue of Unity Workers Not Paid, Resort to Strike
13 Mar 2019
After criticism over exuberant spending on the statue and protests by the tribals in the region, now the workers are up in arms against the government.
Subodh Varma
Elections 2019: Jobs Failure Will Sink Modi
13 Mar 2019
While air strikes and the project inauguration blitz of PM Modi – 157 projects “launched” between February 8 and March 7 – has hogged media space, the unaddressed issue of joblessness is continuing…
Saurav Datta
Babri Case: ‘We Will Express Reservations Against Ravi Shankar’s Appointment’
12 Mar 2019
Fuzail Ayubi, who is representing one of the Muslim parties to the Ayodhya-Babri Masjid title dispute, spoke to NewsClick on the constitutionality of the SC decision to send it for mediation, what it…
Saurabh Sharma
Facebook Post Critical of BJP Costs Dalit Professor His Award
11 Mar 2019
It seems that certain forces are trying to curb the voices of marginalised sections, women, dalits, etc., said Prof Ravi Kant, who is teaching at the Department of Hindi in Lucknow University.