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Bangladesh stands out among many nations as one with a special day that commemorates the sacrifice of the Intellectuals.

The new-found aggression of the RSS organisations in reconversion is their understanding that under the Modi dispensation, their time for expansion has begun an expansion which is not only political but also social and cultural

a cartoonists take on where we may be headed in India. A poster by solo with text in Hindi and English.

Eighteen years after it rejected the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, the Indian government remains implacably hostile to it, and bristles even at attempts to raise the issue of its entry into force (EIF). This was demonstrated again last week when a member of an eminent persons’ group, established by the Preparatory Commission for the CTBT Organisation to promote EIF, visited India.

Looking back at developments over the last few years, most of us academics have been complacently blind to the sea of change that has overtaken our institutions, beginning with the courts from 2006, paving the way to militarisation of our academic life.