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Apoorvanand
Apoorvanand is a regular Scroll.in contributor
Indian universities are pretending everything is normal as the world around them is collapsing
Are the country’s educational institutes responding to the cries engulfing them?
Apoorvanand
· May 06, 2021 · 04:37 pm
In Chhattisgarh, the murder of an Adivasi police officer shows the warped sense of Maoist justice
By enacting kangaroo courts and executions, Naxalites are legitimising the extra-judicial methods the state uses against them.
Apoorvanand
· Apr 28, 2021 · 07:30 am
With orders on Varanasi mosque, judiciary is paving the path to a majoritarian India
The court is allowing itself to facilitate the political project of this government.
Apoorvanand
· Apr 12, 2021 · 06:30 am
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‘Defend the essential’: Ashoka’s trustees could benefit from reading this note Gandhi wrote in 1940
If the institution cannot house a figure like Pratap Bhanu Mehta, then why does it exist?
Apoorvanand
· Mar 19, 2021 · 07:19 pm
Apoorvanand: By playing Hindutva politics, AAP is stirring up trouble
AAP has, however, now decided that it was not enough to merely look Hindu. It seeks to replace the BJP by dipping into its poisonous Hindutva lexicon.
Apoorvanand
· Feb 16, 2021 · 09:30 am
Apoorvanand: Why we need to remind the hangman of his noose
We need to think about the questions raised by student leader Sharjeel Usmani instead of hounding him for asking them.
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· Feb 07, 2021 · 09:16 am
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Is India being ruled by a constitutional government? Freedom hero Bipin Chandra Pal has some answers
Reading his essay ‘The New Movement’ against the backdrop of the farmers agitation.
Apoorvanand
· Jan 09, 2021 · 09:40 am
Reading Ambedkar: Why protesting farmers were right to demand the release of jailed activists
Fraternity, he wrote, is the only real safeguard against the denial of liberty or equality.
Apoorvanand
· Dec 18, 2020 · 09:25 am
‘The classroom is a safe haven’: An Indian teacher mourns the murder of a French counterpart
By equating the class with the publication of the contentious cartoons, those who wanted Samuel Paty punished confused the categories of expression.
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· Oct 27, 2020 · 06:03 pm
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What swaraj meant to Gandhi – and why the government wants to bury that vision of freedom
The ideas of justice and the primacy of the individual form the bedrock of the Gandhian world view.
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· Oct 03, 2020 · 07:30 am
On Teachers Day, a conversation in my head with Premchand on keeping the torch of learning blazing
A Delhi University professor discusses the meaning of a real education.
Apoorvanand
· Sep 05, 2020 · 06:30 am
If we do not speak up now against the arrest of Professor Hany Babu, we may lose India forever
The Constitution give us the right to think and express ourselves in our own way. It cannot be criminalised so casually.
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· Jul 30, 2020 · 08:49 am
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