In his book JNU: Nationalism and India’s Uncivil War, professor Makarand R Paranjape fails to understand the essential irreverence that characterises the premier university

  Jawaharlal Nehru University is an idea which is dreamy and irreverent, challenges the stereotypes, breaks traditional moorings, is Leninist in its thought process but Gandhian in ethos and that makes it mystical and intriguing, and, in certain ways, spiritual. For an outsider, JNU is intimidating but for someone who has lived on the campus […]

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I’ve just bought a new car ( in Neerja’s name, naturally, since she uses it 90% of the time. My 10% quota consists of taking it for servicing, refuelling and getting the punctures fixed), and that has primed me to talk about cars this week. It’s a much more interesting subject, you will agree, than

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‘The Gorakhpur Hospital Tragedy’: Kafeel Khan’s memoir is a punch to the gut

“Dekhta hoon tujhe…” those three ominous words were uttered by Uttar Pradesh’s then newly appointed chief minister Yogi Adityanath to Kafeel Khan, the junior most lecturer at the Department of Pediatrics at the Baba Raghav Das Medical College in Gorakhpur on August 13, 2017. (In the book the three words are translated to ‘I will

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