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Topic: community

SubscriberWrites: Road to thriving individualism goes through community-building efforts

Community systems are not the antithesis of individualism and liberalism, rather they often provide the bedrock to support them.

Communities have played critical role in fighting HIV. That must continue this World AIDS Day

From early 1980s, communities have fought for the rights and needs of those affected. For example, faced with stigma, gay communities in the US provided prevention advice, care and support.

Johann Hari’s ‘Lost Connections’ doesn’t solve all the world’s problems, but it offers a start

Hari uses his own experience of anti-depressant abuse and the discovery of a complicit system of over-prescription in the health industry to ask the one question the doctor failed to — Tell me about your life.

The Padmavati fracas is also about power and privilege

Free speech is important - but we should first ask whose free speech do we always rush to protect?

Indian liberals have also been guilty of protecting Muslim community sentiments

The individual right of an Indian citizen to express their views on Padmavati should take priority over community reactions.

Padmavati highlights a need to democratise the freedom of expression

The problem arises when interpretations are established as “ultimate truth”—closing all possibilities of further excavation of a story like Padmavati.

On Camera

Not just Nehru, even Hindutva stems from Macaulay legacy

The Indian Right and Liberals all accepted the British conception of Hindu, Muslim and British India and the country's eventual decline. What they disagreed on was its cause.

At Charcha 2025: Local entrepreneurship, not just big IT, will drive next wave of distributed AI work

While global corporations setting up GCCs in India continue to express confidence in availability of skilled AI engineers, the panel argued that India’s real challenge lies elsewhere.

Emergency procurement done, India & US working on co-manufacturing Javelin anti-tank missiles

The Government of India has requested to buy up to 216 M982A1 Excalibur tactical projectiles too. Excalibur artillery munition was used in Op Sindoor against Pakistan.

INDIA has a Congress-sized hole. And the fix begins with a little humility

Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.