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Sruti MD
TN this Week: Stricter Lockdown after Jump in COVID-19 Cases; Farmers Join Delhi Protest
07 Aug 2021
The state is witnessing a marginal jump in COVID-19 cases as nearly 2,000 persons tested positive for the virus each day this week.
Omkar Poojari
With its Strident NEP Opposition, Stalin's DMK Asserts Dravidian Credentials
12 Jun 2021
The vocal, sustained and fiercely vehement opposition of the DMK to the New Education Policy ever since its draft released in 2019, has been barely a matter of surprise to close watchers and…
Soumitra Chatterjee
‘I Still Believe the Left Can be the Alternative’: Soumitra Chatterjee
19 Nov 2020
I am surprised that the man who was in power in Gujarat during the horrific riots of 2002 is now the man on the throne of India. Perhaps people can’t see a powerful alternative. Or they are unable to…
Shabina Akhtar
Not 1 But 30 Muslim Professors Teach Sanskrit in Bengal
27 Nov 2019
Around 14 were recruited last year through College Service Commission and 12 this year.
Prabir Purkayastha
Rakhigarhi Skeleton DNA: Indus Valley People Not Rig-Vedic Aryans
30 Sep 2019
Demolishing the RSS belief, ancient DNA evidence shows that the Indus Valley Civilisation was not created by the Rig Vedic Aryans.
Adhiraj Nayar
BJP Government Plans to Set up Vedic Education Board
10 Jul 2018
While there is no problem in promoting Sanskrit and the Vedas as fields of study, and hoping for stable employment afterwards, the over-zealous project of equating these with modern secular and…
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The Gopalaswami Panel Recommendations: Teaching a Regressive Science in Sanskrit
26 Apr 2016
Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Smriti Irani has presented students and teachers of science and technology with a tool to ‘facilitate’ their studies: the Sanskrit language. The purpose of…
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Homage to G. P. Deshpande
08 Nov 2013
Celebrating the life and contributions of G.P. Deshpande (1938-2013), eminent Marathi playwright and intellectual, a memorial meeting was held in New Delhi on October 27. Newsclick captures the…
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Hans Hock on "Aryan Invasion" and "Sanskrit" as the Mother of all Indian Languages
26 Mar 2010
Hans Hock on "Aryan Invasion" and "Sanskrit" as the Mother of all Indian Languages