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‘Emergency Chronicles’: How NewsClick’s Prabir Purakayastha was abducted by the police as a student
An excerpt from Gyan Prakash’s ‘Emergency Chronicles’ recalls how the founder of site that was subject to raids on Tuesday faced police action in 1975.
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How JNU was conceived of as a small institution of higher learning but turned into a university
‘A Prospectus for a New University’, by Gyan Prakash, excerpted from ‘JNU Stories: The First 50 Years’.
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The Art of Solitude: In the songs of ‘Gaman’, an echo of what ‘home’ means for Mumbai’s immigrants
Muzaffar Ali’s film beautifully represented how struggling taxi drivers lived their daily life while experiencing the unhomely city.
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Seven Kashmiri students arrested after row over celebrating India’s World Cup loss
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How Uttar Pradesh’s halal ban has plunged the processed food industry into chaos
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Pithora is for the gods, not for products, say Adivasis
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From the memoir: A disabled writer recalls harrowing experiences of finding a house to rent in Delhi
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Stolen fingerprints, empty bank accounts: How customers are paying for gaps in Aadhaar
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The Art of Resistance: Varun Gover’s ‘Hum Kaagaz Nahin Dikhayenge’ expresses rock-steady defiance
The poem distills the protest to its essence
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It was India’s Constitution that made the Emergency possible
In ‘Emergency Chronicles’, Gyan Prakash locates the Emergency in a historical process and not as pop-up autocracy.
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BJP MP Swapan Dasgupta’s criticism of the ‘Not In My Name’ lynchings protests is pure propaganda
His screed against ‘rootless cosmopolitanism’ comes against the background of almost daily reports of violence by gau rakshaks and attacks on Muslims.
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IFFI Goa: Michael Douglas tries the ‘Naatu Naatu’ hookstep, delivers Amitabh Bachchan’s dialogue
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Caught on camera: Panic after passenger jumps out of emergency exit of plane at US airport
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Watch: Rescuers celebrate after an infant is pulled out alive from the rubble of her home in Gaza
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Watch: This performing duo danced like puppets at an engagement party
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Filmfare OTT Awards: Actor Rajshri Deshpande dedicates her win to Gaza victims, Indian farmers