From a handful of players in Pune to a famous triumph at Lord's, the story of Indian women's cricket is one of forgotten pioneers who refused to let the game remain a gentlemen's preserve.
First they returned during their semester break. Then they set up demonstrations in their campus. Inside Mohammad Ali Jauhar University, students are fighting a battle they never expected.
Our educational philosophy has understandably prioritised equity. The assumption seems to be that treating every child identically is synonymous with fairness. It is not.
A hostel mess-fee protest in Ahmedabad grew into Sampoorna Kranti — the movement that pulled Jayaprakash Narayan out of retirement and set India on the road to the Emergency.
The first 5 years built architecture for change—dedicated ministry, new policy & institutions. Next 5 will test whether it delivers stronger cooperatives, better governance & higher incomes.
Polling for 53 seats in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) unfolds against internet shutdowns and a spate of arrests, besides deadly clashes between Joint Awami Action Committee and security forces.
Mumbai is set to get its first-ever desalination plant, which will turn saline water from the Arabian Sea into drinking water, at a scale the city has never attempted before.
Citizen protest can be a check on democratic backsliding. But whether democratic vigour fully returns will depend more on how the non-electoral gains are leveraged in electoral politics.
The Cockroach Janta Party jolted the Narendra Modi government out of its comfort zone, reminding it that slogans, window-dressing and patchworks won’t impress students.
I have absolutely no doubt that the Nandan Nilekani-led NEET committee will come up with a very relevant and useful set of recommendations. But will it help?
Our education system is a destroyer of all talent by enforcing learning by rote, pushing students to coaching classes to ‘crack’ competitive exams. And then, papers leak.
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