Last week, in a landmark moment, the Orissa high court allowed a same-sex couple to have a live-in relationship, while also recognising the right of the petitioner to self-determine his …
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University of Hyderabad: The Not So Eminent Institute of Eminence
As the students see it, PhD scholar Surya Pratap Bharati's death is a repeat incident of criminal medical negligence and the result of a nexus between the university administration and …

Women Migrant Workers With Disabilities Grapple With the Pandemic
A complex intersectional identity and society’s ignorance towards their needs have hindered them from equality and forbid them to be empowered and independent.

Baghjan Explosion: Man-Made Disasters and the Collective Conscience
As I write this article, the well is still burning.

Essential Reading: Lessons for a Savarna From Ambedkar’s ‘Annihilation of Caste’
The understanding that even today an individual’s worth is ascertained by his caste is what serves as a punch to the gut.

Don’t Wish Me on August 14
Over the last few years of school, August 14 would arrive and I would have to undergo an annual nationality test.