JNU

Is the mob ruling the roost?

JNU violence shows the fringe is at the Centre.

| Jan 07, 2020

When I ‘came out’ as Dalit

And why I rejected Rohith Vemula’s Facebook friend request.

| Jun 20, 2016

Nationalism, Hindutva and India

Reexamining the idea of India

| Mar 04, 2016

Bullying the republic

What the recent clampdown on educational institutions in India tells us about the ruling dispensation.

| Feb 16, 2016

Brain gain, being brown

A Malayali Southasian’s thoughts on going away and returning home.

| Nov 01, 2005

An election at JNU

The elections for the students' union at Jawaharlal Nehru University pits Hindutva against the Congress against the Marxists against the Marxists Leninists. It is all very civilised, still, the feelings run deeper in South Delhi.

| Dec 01, 2003

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