For An Informed Ambedkar Age
Sundeep Pattem From a social perspective, the IITs are tragic failures that beget more tragedies. But you already know the IITs are the pinnacle of Indian aspirations, achievements, accolades, blah-di-blah, right? How about we celebrate by taking a closer look at the graduates, the faculty, and the institution? The institutional charter, briefly. The IITs were …
Komal Rajak Both academic and non-academic spheres are recurrently using terms like “Gen-Z protest,” “Gen Z’s political anger,” “Gen Z pressure,” “Gen-Z consciousness,” and “Gen Z politics” to describe the follow-up events. US public broadcaster NPR, despite accentuating the statistics of joblessness and inequality across South Asia as latent sources of unrest, concludes its argument …
Subhasree Nayak “Who will answer?” And “We cheered because the courts made us wait!” Every rape case begins with a person: a daughter, a sister, a mother who trusted the road home. The numbers can feel cold, but they are made of lives, and any honest conversation has to carry both the data and the …
Jitendra Suna The protests that have sparked in most South Asian countries in the last few years have sparked hope for socio-political, economic, and cultural change. Bangladesh’s protest over the job crisis in 2024, Nepal’s Gen Z protest (2025), and Sri Lanka’s protest of 2022 shocked the nations and their corrupt political systems. The Gen …
Kumar Saikrishna Nayak Elections used to be loud. Street-corner rallies, hoarse loudspeakers, campaigners going door to door, entire neighbourhoods gathered around a television for the evening debate. That version of democracy is dying, and most of us haven’t quite noticed the funeral. The real contest now happens somewhere quieter — inside a smartphone screen, in …
Saraswati Suna Literature both reflects and shapes social life. This article examines how literature, people’s perspectives, and social life are deeply entangled. It asks how literary works and social relations are interpreted through selective lenses that foreground some forms of inequality while obscuring others. What readers notice in a literary work is not always separate …
Kshirod B Nag A society becomes dynamic not when everyone thinks alike, but when people possess the freedom and courage to question, debate and rethink what they have inherited. Every generation receives beliefs, customs, institutions and social practices from the past. Some enrich human life; others may perpetuate inequality simply because they have acquired the …
Ravindra Kumar Goliya Artificial Intelligence is rapidly becoming one of the most transformative technologies in human history. In a remarkably short period, AI has moved from a specialised computational technology to a general-purpose tool capable of writing, designing, analysing, reasoning, generating images and video, assisting scientific research, and increasingly performing tasks once considered uniquely human. …
Kunal Nakshane For the Madia Adivasi community in the Bhamragad region, the Bablai Mata Yatra (pilgrimage/fair) is not just a religious pilgrimage but a living symbol of cultural, environmental, and constitutional rights. However, in recent times, the politics of development, religious conversion, the administration, and Naxalism have begun to significantly impact the Bablai Yatra. For …