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The Problem with One-Face Politics
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From Kanhaiya Kumar to Arvind Kejriwal, Indian politics offers a warning about movements that struggle to grow beyond one dominant face.
Watching Abhijeet Dipke rise to prominence recently made me...
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When Exams Lose Credibility
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Far more than opportunity or access, Indian students are increasingly asking whether the examination system itself deserves their trust.
My name is Meera, and my story could belong to millions...
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A Protest Needs an Outcome
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The protests at Jantar Mantar have brought together students, activists and political leaders over the NEET paper leak. Actors and filmmakers have offered support, the latest being Salman Khan (the...
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The Politics of Remembering
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There are a few places in India where a walk of less than a kilometre can take you through more than a century of the nation’s memory. In Amritsar, it...
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The Myth of the Missing Opposition
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The Congress’ crisis is not merely electoral decline, but the slow exhaustion of imagination, organisation and ideological clarity.
For a long time, my understanding of opposition was deeply personal. It...
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The Quiet Shift in India’s Ballot
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The 2026 Assembly poll results have shown that India’s voters are shifting from familiarity to aspiration by rewarding those leaders and parties who promise a credible path to the future....
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Some Children Are More Equal Than Others
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Consider three children. All are six years old. All attend Class I classrooms in the same city. All are equally entitled, under Article 21A of the Constitution, to free and...
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Dhurandar and the Decline of Doubt
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Cinema ceases to interpret reality when it begins to shape how that reality is understood.
There is a reason history is easier to watch. Even when it is selective, dramatised,...
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Why Education Never Wins Elections
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The enduring weakness of India’s education policy lies not in reform design, but in the absence of an organised constituency that turns learning into leverage.
A longtime reader once told...
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Why India’s Anti-Coaching Push Misses the Mark
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India’s war on coaching centres is being fought everywhere except where it matters most.
In June 2025, the Ministry of Education constituted a high-level committee to examine students’ growing dependence...
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India’s Longest Layover: Why Education Reform Remains Grounded
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A country that enforces rest for pilots still relies on endurance from teachers to keep its education system airborne.
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The Three Lives of the Woman Voter
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As household agency turns into electoral agency, women are redefining what Indian politics must answer to.
I grew up watching a pattern in my home. Every birthday or festival, my...
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