The misogynist agenda behind such resistance to reservation for women is apparent from the near-complete absence of women in representative bodies in the entire political history of Nagaland.
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India: PUDR statement on anti-women’s reservation protests in Nagaland
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Video: Prof. Prabhat Patnaik Speaks on Demonetisation and Democracy
13 February 2017Prof. Prabhat Patnaik delivered the second Annual Lecture of Centre for Policy Analysis on Demonetisation and Democracy, held in New Delhi on 5th February, 2017
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Viceroy’s House - Gurinder Chadha’s take on partition
13 February 2017When Chadha, best known for her 2002 film Bend It Like Beckham, set out to tell her story of “the people’s partition” of India, she wanted to focus on the lives of those affected, rather than linger on the terrible violence that marked the creation of India and Pakistan in 1947.
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Bangladesh: Disquiet over draft Citizenship Bill 2016 | Commentary and Review
12 February 2017For people who were born abroad to Bangladeshi parents, for people who have a parent who isn’t Bangladeshi, things are about to change, and given the way our nation operates, probably not for the better.
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India Post-truth History Textbooks under BJP: Rajasthan ministers want a new ending for the battle of Haldighati - Editorials
10 February 2017The proposal to amend ’history’ in the textbooks of Rajasthan University (RU) was made by Mohanlal Gupta, a BJP MLA who is also a government nominee in the RU syndicate.
