Social exclusion, defined as the systematic barring of individuals and groups from one or more dimensions of society as structures of power, privilege, opportunities, and resources, has been a ...

The case of The Satanic Verses epitomizes the futility of book banning. Published in 1988, Rushdie’s novel sparked a global firestorm.It was accused of blasphemy, banned in several Muslim-majority ...

Reservation is one of the longest and most emotional debates in India. In a sociology classroom I attended, we were discussing caste in India. Students came from diverse regions, social backgrounds, ...

October 1, 2025. The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement: Postage Stamp on RSS: Insult to the Constitution of India. The rele ...

On the morning of September 21, as Zubeen Garg’s mortal remains arrived in Guwahati, the city stopped. The streets turned into a sea of bodies, an ocean of grief that went far beyond mourning a ...

However, what is noticeable in Ladakh is that it seeks to show how events there cannot easily be reduced to a collective resistance narrative on the basis of identity/difference as an explicit ...

One of the biggest worries relating to the food and farming system at world level has been that in recent decades the diversity of crops being grown on the fields of farmers has declined to an ...

Growing corruption, black money, and the erosion of workers’ rights have emerged as defining challenges in neoliberal India. At the heart of this crisis lies the stark division of the labour market: ...

In the film, the central character is a fireman named Guy Montag, who destroys properties considered illegal, including books escapes to the countryside where he meets the Book People, a large ...

Within 48 hours of US President Donald Trump, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the butcher of Gaza, in tow, announcing on September 29, in Washington, final cessation of Israeli war on ...